Ethnomusicology (from the Greek ethnos = nation and mousike = music), formerly comparative musicology, is the study of music in its cultural context, cultural musicology. It can be considered the anthropology or ethnography of music. Jeff Todd Titon has called it the study of "people making music". It is often thought of as a study of non-Western musics, but often includes the study of Western music from an anthropological perspective. "Ethnomusicology as western culture knows it is actually a western phenomenon." (Nettl 1983:25) The Greek language (Greek Ελληνικά, IPA – Hellenic) is an Indo-European language with a documented history of some 3,000 years. ... Music is an art, entertainment, or other human activity which involves organized sound, though definitions may vary. ... The word culture comes from the Latin root colere (to inhabit, to cultivate, or to honor). ... For the album by Prince, see Musicology (album). ... Anthropology (from the Greek word άνθρωπος = human) consists of the study of humankind (see genus Homo). ... Ethnography (from the Greek ethnos = nation and graphe = writing) refers to the qualitative description of human social phenomena, based on months or years of fieldwork. ...

While musicology contends to be purely about music itself (almost always western classical music), ethnomusicologists are often interested in putting the music they study into a wider cultural context. Ethnomusicology as it emerged in the late 19th century and early 20th century, practiced by people such as Vinko Zganec, Franjo Ksaver, Carl Stumpf, Erich von Hornbostel, Curt Sachs and Alexander J. Ellis, tended to focus on non-European music of an oral tradition, but in more recent years the field has expanded to embrace all musical styles from all parts of the world. Classical music is music considered classical, as sophisticated and refined, in a regional tradition. ... Alternative meaning: Nineteenth Century (periodical) (18th century — 19th century — 20th century — more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 19th century was that century which lasted from 1801-1900 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar. ... (19th century - 20th century - 21st century - more centuries) Decades: 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s As a means of recording the passage of time, the 20th century was that century which lasted from 1901–2000 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar (1900–1999 in the... Vinko Žganec (1890-1976) is a well-known Croatian ethnomusicologist. ... Carl Stumpf (21 April 1848 - 25 December 1936) was a philosopher and psychologist. ... Erich Moritz von Hornbostel (February 25, 1877 - November 28, 1935) was an Austrian ethnomusicologist and scholar of music. ... Curt Sachs (June 29, 1881 - February 5, 1959) was a German musicologist. ... Alexander John Ellis (or Alexander Sharpe) (1814 - 1890) was an English philologist. ...

Ethnomusicologists apply theory and methods from cultural anthropology as well as other disciplines in the social sciences and humanities. Many ethnomusicological works are created not necessarily by 'ethnomusicologists' proper, by instead by anthropologists examining music as an aspect of a culture. A well known example of such work is Colin Turnbull's study of the Mbuti pygmies. Another example is Jaime de Angulo, a linguist who ended up learning much about the music of the Indians of Northern California (see [1]  (http://www.angelfire.com/sk/syukhtun/Jaime.html)). Yet another is Anthony Seeger, professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, who studied the music and society of the Suya people in Mato Grosso, Brazil (see [2]  (http://www.ethnomusic.ucla.edu/people/seeger.htm)). Colin Macmillan Turnbull (November 23, 1924 _ July 28, 1994) was a Scottish-born anthropologist who gained fame with his book The Forest People (1962), a detailed study of the Mbuti Pygmies. ... Generally speaking, pygmy (from Greek pygmaios, fist sized, a kind of dwarf in Greek mythology) can refer to any human or animal of unusually small size, for example, the pygmy hippopotamus. ... Generally speaking, pygmy (from Greek pygmaios, fist sized, a kind of dwarf in Greek mythology) can refer to any human or animal of unusually small size, for example, the pygmy hippopotamus. ...

Four important centers for ethnomusicological study are the Universities of California at Los Angeles and Santa Barbara; Indiana University, Bloomington, and the Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research at University of Zagreb, Croatia. The University of California (UC) is a public university system within the State of California. ... The University of California, Los Angeles, popularly known as UCLA, is a public, coeducational university situated in the neighborhood of Westwood within the city of Los Angeles. ... The University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) is a coeducational public university located in Santa Barbara County, California. ... Universitys emblem The University of Zagreb (Croatian Sveučilište u Zagrebu) is the oldest Croatian university in continuous operation and also the oldest university in southeastern Europe. ... The Republic of Croatia is a crescent-shaped country in Europe bordering the Mediterranean, Central Europe and the Balkans. ...

Source

• Nettl, Bruno (1983). The Study of Ethnomusicology. Urbana, Chicago, and London: University of Illinois Press.

External links

• Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research (http://maief.ief.hr/en/)
• University of California, Los Angeles (http://www.ethnomusic.ucla.edu/)
• Young Ethnomusicologist's Wiki (http://yemwiki.kendra.de/)