Collaborative definitions of EM 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