Ethnomusicology as the Study of People Making Music
This essay defines ethnomusicology as the study of people making music. People make sounds that are recognized as music, and people also make “music” into a cultural domain. The essay contrasts this idea of music as a contingent cultural category with earlier scientific definitions that essentializ...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | deu |
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Znanstvena založba Filozofske fakultete Univerze v Ljubljani (Ljubljana University Press, Faculty of Arts)
2015-06-01
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| Series: | Muzikološki Zbornik |
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| Online Access: | https://193.2.70.196/MuzikoloskiZbornik/article/view/3511 |
| Summary: | This essay defines ethnomusicology as the study of people making music. People make sounds that are recognized as music, and people also make
“music” into a cultural domain. The essay contrasts this idea of music as a contingent cultural category with earlier scientific definitions that essentialized
music as an object. |
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| ISSN: | 0580-373X 2350-4242 |