Ethnomusicology
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The study of music and culture; the study of music as it relates to its cultural context.
History
While musicology's traditional subject has been the history and literature of Western art music, ethnomusicologists study all music as a human social and cultural phenomenon. The primary precursor to ethnomusicology, comparative musicology, emerged in the late 19th century and early 20th century through the practice of people such as Béla Bartók, Zoltán Kodály, Constantin Brǎiloiu, Vinko Zganec, Franjo Ksaver, Carl Stumpf, Erich von Hornbostel, Curt Sachs and Alexander J. Ellis. Comparative musicology and early ethnomusicology tended to focus on non-Western music that was transmitted through oral traditions. But, in more recent years, the field has expanded to embrace all musical styles from all parts of the world.
The Society for Ethnomusicology has been the primary academic organization for the discipline of ethnomusicology since its inception in 1955.
List of ethnomusicologists
- Simha Arom (1930-)
- Laurent Aubert
- Samuel Baud-Bovy (1906-1986)
- Béla Bartók (1881-1945)
- Wolfgang Bender
- John Blacking (1928-1990)
- Constantin Brăiloiu (1893-1958)
- Alain Daniélou (1907-1994)
- Jean During (1947-)
- Jean-Michel Guilcher (1916-)
- Mantle Hood (1918-2005)
- Zoltán Kodály (1882-1967)
- Komitas (1869-1935)
- Gerhard Kubik (1934)
- Jaap Kunst (1891-1960)
- Paul-Gilbert Langevin (1933-1986)
- Alan Lomax (1915-2002)
- Bernard Lortat-Jacob (1941-)
- Alan Merriam (1923-1980)
- Patrick Moutal
- Prithwindra Mukherjee (1936-)
- Christian Poché (1938-2010)
- Lucie Rault (1944 - )
- Gilbert Rouget (1916-)
- André Schaeffner (1895-1980)
- Trân Van Khé (1921 - )
- Tran Quang Hai
- Hugo Zemp
See also
- World music
- Ethnomusicology and the remix
- Cultural anthropology
- Sound culture
- World music
- Musicology
- Sociomusicology
- Musicology
- Ethnochoreology
- Bruno Nettl
- Smithsonian Folkways