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** "The study of music in its cultural context" (SEM) | ** "The study of music in its cultural context" (SEM) | ||
** in relation to Musicology: EM includes cultural/social environment | ** in relation to Musicology: EM includes cultural/social environment. How does it differ from "sociology of music"? (1) non-Western; (2) fieldwork. | ||
** "the study of non-western music" | |||
* Who is an EMist? | |||
** interest in the background of the music, preservation of music and how it developed | |||
** often composers, esp. 20th century- looking for new sounds | |||
** often performers | |||
** historians interested to revive lost traditions: reconstruction | |||
** people interested to preserve national traditions - Europe, postcolonial nations - developing differently in different places (Ghana vs. India vs. Korea vs. Canada) - how to define the nation musically? Musical impact on society. Both a profession for ethnomusicologists (in the employ of the state) and an object of study (music constituting the state). | |||
Latest revision as of 11:31, 11 January 2016
Descriptive or prescriptive?
Theory or method? Topic? Big? Small?
- How to categorize it?
- A practice
- A discourse
- Research
- A science
- What is it about? (topic)
- Sound is central, but not limited to sound
- Sound plus culture/society
- Sound in culture/society
- "humanly organized sound"
- humanly intended sound
- artistic sound
- non-functional? aesthetic? non-referential humanly organized sound?
- Definitions of EM:
- "The study of music in its cultural context" (SEM)
- in relation to Musicology: EM includes cultural/social environment. How does it differ from "sociology of music"? (1) non-Western; (2) fieldwork.
- "the study of non-western music"
- Who is an EMist?
- interest in the background of the music, preservation of music and how it developed
- often composers, esp. 20th century- looking for new sounds
- often performers
- historians interested to revive lost traditions: reconstruction
- people interested to preserve national traditions - Europe, postcolonial nations - developing differently in different places (Ghana vs. India vs. Korea vs. Canada) - how to define the nation musically? Musical impact on society. Both a profession for ethnomusicologists (in the employ of the state) and an object of study (music constituting the state).