Ethnomusicology
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Ethnomusicology is the study of music in relation to the cultural and social contexts of its creators and listeners. It explores the ways music intersects with cultural identity, social structures, traditions, and human behavior. This field combines theoretical and methodological approaches from anthropology, sociology, and musicology, examining not just the sound itself but also its material, cognitive, and biological dimensions. Ethnomusicologists analyze how music functions within societies, how it evolves over time, and how it reflects and influences human experiences across different cultures.
- Music - Its Language, History, and Culture (Cohen)
- This text is designed to introduce students to works representative of a variety of music traditions including the repertoires of Western Europe from the Middle Ages through the present; of the United States, including art music, jazz, folk, rock, musical theater; and from at least two non-Western world areas (Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Caribbean, the Middle East, Indian subcontinent).
- Resonances - Engaging Music in its Cultural Context (Morgan-Ellis Ed.)
- Resonances: Engaging Music in Its Cultural Context offers a fresh curriculum for the college-level music appreciation course. The musical examples are drawn from classical, popular, and folk traditions from around the globe. These examples are organized into thematic chapters, each of which explores a particular way in which human beings use music. Topics include storytelling, political expression, spirituality, dance, domestic entertainment, and more.
- Music in World Cultures
- This text provides just a small sampling of some of the various musical styles and traditions that might be found, though the skills developed in this course can be applied to any type of music.
- Listening to The World - A Brief Survey of World Music (Pizà)
- Listen to the world. Explore music from around the globe. Acquaint yourself with a variety of international music styles and traditions. Investigate issues in popular music from both a social perspective (such as race, religion, language, economics, gender, diaspora, and politics), as well as an intrinsically musical position (beat, pitch, meter, rhythm, form, timbre, texture).
- Music on the Move (Fosler-Lussier)
- Music on the Move invites readers to listen and engage with many different types of music as they read. The text introduces a variety of concepts related to music's travels—with or without its makers—including colonialism, migration, diaspora, mediation, propaganda, copyright, and hybridity. The case studies represent a variety of musical genres and styles, Western and non-Western, concert music, traditional music, and popular music.
Thumbnail: Indian man playing a sitar. (Unsplash License; Saubhagya gandharv via Unsplash)