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	Ethnomusicology - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ethnomusicology (from the Greek ethnos = nation and mousike = music), formerly comparative musicology, is the study of music in its cultural context, cultural musicology.
		While musicology contends to be purely about music itself (almost always Western classical music), ethnomusicologists are often interested in putting the music they study into a wider cultural context.
		Ethnomusicology Musical Instrument Collection Images of musical instruments from around the world from the University of Washington Digital Images Collection
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ethnomusicology (383 words)

	Ethnomusicology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Historically, ethnomusicology has generally avoided the subject matter and some of the methodology of Musicology (which may be logically understood as that subdiscipline of Ethnomusicology dealing primarily with Western European notated traditions).
		Many ethnomusicologists, aware that 'ethnomusicology' implies distinctions which their own research has proven untenable (between 'ethnics' and 'non-ethnics,' between 'ethno-music' and 'music,' between monolithic concepts of the 'west' and the 'non-west,' and even between 'ethnomusicology' and 'musicology'), are unhappy with the term.
		François Brassard in Ethnomusicology (vol 16, Sep 1972), comments on the wide sphere of influence of these publications as demonstrated by the large number of personal and family anthologies, many still extant, which were compiled from them.
	thecanadianencyclopedia.com /PrinterFriendly.cfm?Params=U1ARTU0001148 (9988 words)

	Understanding Ethnomusicology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The discipline Ethnomusicology branched out of Musicology because of the ardent desire of many Western musicologists to study non-western music which exist with oral traditions and especially with the tribal and village communities of the non-western countries.
		The term Ethnomusicology was introduced by Jaap Kunst, a Dutch Musicologist in 1950, though the discipline was in existence in the name of comparative musicology from the late 19th Century.
		Ethnomusicology was officially dropped by the Society for Ethnomusicology in 1957.
	www.chennaionline.com /columns/ethnomusic/durga1.asp (528 words)

	Concentration in Ethnomusicology - Graduate Students - Hunter College Music Department
		The overall aims of the Hunter College Graduate Studies in Ethnomusicology are to provide a theoretical and methodological foundation and to prepare individuals to develop new or adapt existing concepts for solving current problems.
		The three core courses in ethnomusicology, along with the anthropology and musicology courses, are designed to enable the accomplishment of the central aims, while the variable topics seminars in ethnomusicology afford further preparation for the investigation of an issue or geographical region of individual interest.
		Ethnomusicology students must take proficiency exams in Western music history, music theory, keyboard skills, dictation, and sightsinging before beginning the program, and they also must take a foreign language examination.
	www.hunter.cuny.edu /~music/graduates/concentration-ethnomusicology.shtml (995 words)

	UW Ethnomusicology - Programs - please maximize browser window
		Ethnomusicology programs at the University of Washington feature an integrated interdisciplinary approach to the study of music and culture.
		The Ethnomusicology Division has a variety of special resources available for teaching and research, including a sound archives, musical analysis laboratory, special library collections, musical instrument collection, video equipment, and a student workroom with computer, sound equipment, and library.
		Ethnomusicology Student Association (ESA) meets regularly to discuss matters of concern to students and sponsors a variety of special activities, including lectures, colloquia, and concerts.
	depts.washington.edu /ethmusic/program.html (2638 words)

	Ethnomusicology
		Ethnomusicology is a systematic approach to the study of music in a cultural context; that is, the study of music wherever it may be found or at whatever time.
		The basis of research for the thesis or dissertation in all fields of concentration is graduate training in research methods, bibliography and guided writing, filming and recording, notation and transcription, and organology.
		This examination is oral and includes both discussion of the thesis and its relationship to the candidates field of concentration in ethnomusicology.
	userpages.umbc.edu /~jack/umbc/umgsb/catalog/ETHNOMUSICOLOGY.html (2111 words)

	Ethnomusicology \| Black Roots and Culture - ReggaeFusion.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The field of ethnomusicology explores human music-making activities all over the world, in all styles, from the immediate present to the distant past.
		Ethnomusicology is interdisciplinary by nature and so ethnomusicologists may also be trained as anthropologists, musicologists, folklorists, educators, performers, composers, dancers, archivists, librarians, historians, linguists, cultural analysts, cognitive psychologists, and in other disciplines.
		Most ethnomusicologists work as college professors in academic institutions, but a significant number also work with museums, festivals, record labels, archives, libraries, schools, and other institutions in roles that have a greater focus on educating and presenting to the general public.
	www.reggaefusion.com /Insight/Ethnomusicology/Index.html (353 words)

	JSTOR: Society for Ethnomusicology
		The Society for Ethnomusicology was founded in 1955 to promote the research, study, and performance of music in all historical periods and cultural contexts.
		Members of the Society for Ethnomusicology are scholars, students, performers, publishers, museum specialists, and librarians from numerous disciplines.
		Ethnomusicology is the official organ of the Society for Ethnomusicology and contains scholarly articles on the wide variety of cultural study areas, theoretical questions and interdisciplinary approaches that are characteristic of the field of ethnomusicology.
	www.jstor.org /journals/sem.html (215 words)

	2004-2005 Program Requirements - Ethnomusicology
		In the ethnomusicology specialization, the comprehensive examination consists of two parts: a research paper of a length, form, and originality to warrant submission to a scholarly journal; and an oral examination on the research paper and on the history, method, and theory of ethnomusicology.
		Students are strongly encouraged to develop a second area of expertise outside ethnomusicology or systematic musicology in a discipline or a topic that may aid their research or make them more versatile teachers at the college and university level.
		Students in the ethnomusicology specialization must enroll in a minimum of three quarter-length courses of ethnomusicology performance organizations (Ethnomusicology 91A-91Z, 191A-Z), that are not applied to their degree.
	www.gdnet.ucla.edu /gasaa/pgmrq0405/ethno.asp (2259 words)

	Undergraduate Program in Ethnomusicology
		During their four years of study, undergraduate majors in ethnomusicology take: a) courses in musicianship geared toward understanding, and being able to "hear," musical phenomena from various world traditions; b) survey courses of world music cultures; c) courses in specific musical cultures; and d) courses in the performance of specific musical traditions.
		Ethnomusicology majors must satisfy University and School of the Arts and Architecture general education requirements in oirder to successfully complete the B.A. degree.
		Ethnomusicology majors may enroll in Ethnomusicology 92 or 162 in order to receive two units of credit for private or semi-private lessons with a distinguished community-based musician.
	www.ethnomusic.ucla.edu /degreeprograms/ugethno.htm (944 words)

	UH Music Department - ETHNOMUSICOLOGY PROGRAMS AND DEGREES
		The Ethnomusicology Program at the University of Hawai`i has a long-standing reputation for excellence in the study of world music, most particularly the music of Asian and Pacific cultures.
		The university has been innovative and pioneering in the application of ethnomusicology to music education at all levels and is at the forefront in presenting ethnomusicology in the professional curriculum.
		Ethnomusicology also is actively involved in such co-sponsored activities as productions of Beijing opera, Kabuki, Balinese Ketcak, and Javanese dance drama.
	www.hawaii.edu /uhmmusic/pethno.htm (1036 words)

	European Meetings in Ethnomusicology
		Ethnomusicology is, to put it roughly and shortly, the scholarly knowledge, interpretation and explanation of all sorts of traditional, ethnic, rural, urban, ex-rural or rurban, subcultural/marginal, identity-marking music.
		We trust it is as important as necessary that researchers should meet and mutually learn about their exegetic performances, methodological particularities and adequacy, as well as about the collected field materials.
		This journal relies upon the conviction that the experts' dialogue in ethnomusicology, by means of the writing, represents an important cultural action and a scientific performance with highly humanistic aims and consequences.
	eme.ong.ro (233 words)

	New Perspectives in American Ethnomusicology
		As ethnomusicology broadens in its theoretical approaches, even Merriam's model (music concepts, music-related behaviour, and music sound) like much of the work of early anthropologists, has come to be seen as somewhat narrow and out-of-date.
		Meanwhile, it may be stated that in general, ethnomusicology is quite an internally diverse field, with different scholars pursuing a wide range of different subjects and theoretical approaches, including various forms of historical investigation, mass media studies, and research inspired by various aspects of folklore, sociology, linguistics, acoustics, and other fields.
		Ethnomusicology as a field has since mid-century been dominated by scholars from the United States, mostly because of the affluence, institutional support, and international interests of American society and economy.
	www.sibetrans.com /trans/trans1/manuel.htm (3137 words)

	Ethnomusicology in SIL
		Ethnomusicology within SIL is concerned with research and documentation of musics around the world, and with promoting the use of indigenous music to meet contemporary needs within the society.
		Essentially ethnomusicology is looking at music as a part of a culture and social life and looking at the music system itself.
		Ethnomusicology within SIL is concerned not only with research and documentation of musics around the world, but also with promoting and encouraging the use of indigenous music to meet contemporary needs within the given society.
	www.sil.org /anthro/ethnomusicology.htm (652 words)

	Ethnomusicology
		George Herzog, in turn taught David McAllester (Wesleyan University Professor Emeritus of Anthropology and Ethnomusicology and a founder of the Society of Ethnomusicology).
		Ethnomusicology is the scholarly study of all the world's musics, each within their social, historical, geographical, and cultural contexts.
		In this regard, Dr. Waring possesses a broad based knowledge of world music, and is an authority on music of the USA, a specialist in areas of African and Latin American, an organologist (the scholarly study of musical instruments), and an instrument maker.
	www.waringmusic.com /ethnomusicology.htm (405 words)

	Graduate Studies in Ethnomusicology
		Established in 1975-1976, we are one of the oldest ethnomusicology programs in the United States and are situated in a distinguished music department in the College of Letters and Science.
		However, it is possible to take "a field" in ethnomusicology as part of the graduate program in anthropology, and ethnomusicology faculty work with students in a number of other degree programs.
		Brinner, Guilbault, and Wade are responsible for courses on ethnomusicology as a field and on various approaches and theories, as well as for geographically-focused courses.
	ls.berkeley.edu /dept/music/ethno.html (1224 words)

	Music in World Cultures (Ethnomusicology), Bethel University (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Ethnomusicology is defined as the study of music in a sociocultural context.
		Each student is required to do a one- to six-month internship in the country of his or her choice.
		"Ethnomusicology is crucial for building an effective music ministry in another culture." Each student is supplied with academic training, skill development, practical experience, and musical development throughout the program.
	www.bethel.edu /special-events/newsrel/2004articles/07-23-04musicology.html (333 words)

	New Perspectives in Ethnomusicology: A Critical Survey
		Recently, for instance, one distinguished scholar claimed that ethnomusicology has been a part of musicology "ever since [Adler], in encyclopedia definitions and in actual academic practice", and that it is at the same time "a sub-discipline of anthropology" (Nettl 1992: 375), that is, a subsidiary of both musicology and anthropology.
		It is worth repeating, too, that the influences on ethnomusicology in its various phases of development and in its methods and techniques have come, not just from musicology and anthropology, but from folkloristics, linguistics and philology, sociology, psychology, history, and cultural studies in general.
		Advancing what she terms a "holistic model", she bases this on the convergence of four intellectual traditions: musical semiotics, derived form structural linguistics; performance and contextual approaches, from folklore on the one hand, and from sociolinguistics on the other; and a communication and meaning model from cognitive anthropology.
	www.sibetrans.com /trans/trans1/porter.htm (5421 words)

	Open Directory - Arts:Music:Musicology:Ethnomusicology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Ethnomusicology is the study of music as culture.
		What denotes Ethnomusicology is less the type of music studied, but the focus on the relation of music to its cultural and social aspects.
		Though ethnomusicology began as a splinter group from the American Musicological Society in the early 1950s, it currently is practiced in many forms worldwide.
	dmoz.org /Arts/Music/Musicology/Ethnomusicology/desc.html (311 words)

	Ethnomusicology
		Insofar as anyone has heard of ethnomusicologists at all, there is a fairly common feeling (and not unjustified, bearing in mind what ethnomusicologists collectively seem to do) that ethnomusicology is, exclusively, the study of non-Western musics.
		Sometimes, the term ethnomusicology itself is perceived as pretentious.
		Ethnomusicology is essentially about 'people making music' or 'humanly-organized sound' (e-mail me if you'd like the references) which is what folk music studies focuses on too, so it should be possible to add useful aspects of ethnomusicological enquiry to folk music research without giving up existing perspectives.
	www.mustrad.org.uk /articles/ethnomus.htm (1959 words)

	ETHNOMUSICOLOGY
		As mentioned in the article on "Ethnomusicology" in The New Groves Dictionary of Music and Musicians, the origin of the term ethnomusicology is attributed to Jaap Kunst (1891-1960): Musicologica: a Study of the Nature of Ethno-musicology, its Problems, Methods, and Representative Personalities, 1950 (Pegg 2001:367).
		Kunst gives an account of the development of ethnomusicology; he starts with A.J. Ellis, mathematician and philologist, who maintained that musical scales were the product of cultural invention and NOT based on natural acoustical phenomena as theoretical works on Western music had indicated.
		Kunst emphasizes the importance of approaching each music as it relates to its own culture, without theoretical preconceptions, taken from other cultures, that would limit the validity of a study.
	cfaonline.asu.edu /haefer/classes/568/568.papers/1960.kunst.barrionuevo.html (1333 words)

	The College Music Society - Music Specializations: Ethnomusicology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The goal of the Ethnomusicology Committee is to bring an awareness of ethnomusicological concerns before an ever-larger segment of the college music teaching profession.
		We encourage scholars from across the music disciplines, particularly those who care about the broad range of issues falling under the rubrics of ethnomusicology and "world music," to incorporate the study of music as culture into their curricula.
		An important part of our mission is to serve as a forum for advice and support as we navigate the teaching of complex issues of music, identities, and values in an ever-changing world characterized by complex culture contact and power inequities.
	www.music.org /cgi-bin/showpage.pl?tmpl=/profactiv/specs/ethno/ethnohome&h=79 (292 words)

	Research on Cognition in Ethnomusicology
		The article is very readable, provides a hopeful account of reconciling the concerns within the domains of anthropology and psychology, and between ethnomusicology and psychology, and offers ways to expand the field of cognitive ethnomusicology.
		One of his desires is to expand the study of children's music and performance as a way to study how cognitive representations of music are developed; this sounds strikingly similar to the comments of Whiting et al.
		In Ethnomusicology, this is accomplished by constructing transcriptions for music from an aural tradition.
	www.musicog.ohio-state.edu /Music950/bibCogEthno.html (14969 words)

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