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Also known as ethnomusicology

thumb|Jaap Kunst, early ethnomusicologist and creator of the term 'ethno-musicology', plays the [[Indonesian triton, beside other traditional Indonesian instruments.]]

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academic major
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ethnography
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Ethnomusicology
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Category:Ethnomusicology
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Encyclopedic overview

42 sections
Contents
  • Definition
  • History
  • Approaches
  • Anthropological
  • Musicological
  • Analysis
  • Top-down vs bottom-up
  • Methodologies
  • Fieldwork
  • History
  • Objectivity
  • Performance
  • Best practices
  • Theoretical issues
  • Universals
  • Linguistics and semiotics
  • Comparative research
  • Insider/outsider epistemology
  • Ethics
  • Intellectual property
  • Identity
  • Gender
  • Nationalism
  • Globalism
  • Appropriation
  • Decolonialism
  • Technology
  • Cognition
  • Scale
  • Rhythm
  • Timbre
  • Domains
  • Applied ethnomusicology
  • Western music
  • Medical ethnomusicology
  • Ethnochoreology
  • Academic programs
  • Popular culture
  • See also
  • References
  • Bibliography
  • External links

thumb|Jaap Kunst, early ethnomusicologist and creator of the term 'ethno-musicology', plays the [[Indonesian triton, beside other traditional Indonesian instruments.]]

Ethnomusicology is the multidisciplinary study of music in its cultural context. The discipline investigates social, cognitive, biological, comparative, and other dimensions. Ethnomusicologists study music as a reflection of culture and investigate the act of music-making through various immersive, observational, and analytical approaches. This discipline emerged from comparative musicology, initially focusing on non-Western music, but later expanded to embrace the study of all different music.

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