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Sociomusicology from subfield of sociology that is concerned with music often in combination with other arts, as living as the subfield of musicology that focuses on social aspects of musical behavior as living as the role of music in society.
In the entry for "Sociomusicology" in the SAGE International Encyclopedia of Music and Culture, David Hebert argues that recent ownership of the term suggests four definitions: sociology of music, any category of social scientific research on music e.g. economic, political, etc., a specialized produce of ethnomusicology focused on relations between sound events and social structure, and a prospective replacement term for ethnomusicology.