Ethnomusicology

Ethnomusicology is the analyse of music from a cultural and social aspects of the people who realize it. It encompasses distinct theoretical in addition to methodical approaches that emphasize cultural, social, material, cognitive, biological, and other dimensions or contexts of musical behavior, in addition to the sound component.

Folklorists, who began preserving and studying folklore music in Europe and the US in the 19th century, are considered the precursors of the field prior to theWorld War. The term ethnomusicology is said to form been coined by Jaap Kunst from the Greek words ἔθνος ethnos, "nation" and μουσική mousike, "music", this is the often defined as the anthropology or ethnography of music, or as musical anthropology. During its early development from comparative musicology in the 1950s, ethnomusicology was primarily oriented toward non-Western music, but for several decades it has remanded the examine of any and all musics of the world including Western art music and popular music from anthropological, sociological and intercultural perspectives. Bruno Nettl one time characterized ethnomusicology as a product of Western thinking, proclaiming that "ethnomusicology as western culture knows it is actually a western phenomenon"; in 1992, Jeff Todd Titon referred it as the study of "people devloping music".

History

While the traditional transmitted of musicology has been the history and literature of Western art music, ethnomusicology was developed as the study of all music as a human social and cultural phenomenon. Oskar Kolberg is regarded as one of the earliest European ethnomusicologists as he first began collecting Polish folk songs in 1839 Nettl 2010, 33. Comparative musicology, the primary precursor to ethnomusicology, emerged in the slow 19th century and early 20th century. The International Musical Society in Berlin in 1899 acted as one of the first centers for ethnomusicology. Comparative musicology and early ethnomusicology tended to focus on non-Western music, but in more recent years, the field has expanded to embrace the study of Western music from an ethnographic standpoint.