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Medical ethnomusicology is a subfield of ethnomusicology, which according to UCLA professor Timothy Rice is "the study of how and why humans are musical." [1] Medical ethnomusicology, similar to medical anthropology, uses music-making, musical sound, and noise to study human health, wellness, healing and disease prevention including, but not limited to, music as violence.
The final volumes appeared in 2001, but editions have since been updated. It is widely regarded as an authoritative academic source for ethnomusicology. [1] It is published by Routledge, which, like Garland Science, is now part of Taylor & Francis Group. Volume 1: Africa - ed. Ruth M. Stone (Professor of Folklore and Ethnomusicology, Indiana), 1997
Rasmussen received her B.A. from Northwestern University, her M.A. from the University of Denver, and her Ph.D. in ethnomusicology from the University of California, Los Angeles. [4] She studied with A. J. Racy, Timothy Rice, Nazir Jairazbhoy, Gerard Behague, and Scott Marcus. [3]
Comparative musicology is known as the cross-cultural study of music. [9] Once referred to as "Musikologie", comparative musicology emerged in the late 19th century in response to the works of Komitas Keworkian (also known as Komitas Vardapet or Soghomon Soghomonian.) [10] A precedent to modern ethnomusicological studies, comparative musicology seeks to look at music throughout world cultures ...
This type of research allowed scholars to learn firsthand about cultures they aren't familiar with—including hearing testimonies about customs, observing social and cultural norms, and learning how to play the instruments from a culture. [183] Timothy Taylor discusses the arrival and development of new terminology in the face of globalization ...
The founding of the Society for Ethnomusicology was not the first attempt at an organization focusing on the music of the world. Before the work of SEM's founders in the 1950s, several efforts in Europe had taken place through the work of dozens of musicologists and those who would eventually be considered ethnomusicologists, including Frances Densmore, Helen Heffron Roberts, and George Herzog.
Stephen Blum (born March 4, 1942) is an American scholar and musician, whose research has primarily been in ethnomusicology.He has lent a multidisciplinary approach to the writing and publication of numerous articles discussing a wide range of musical topics and ideas.
Benjamin Lee, Professor of Anthropology, Rice University: Cultures of circulation. James Z. Lee, Professor of History and Sociology and research professor, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan: Social and family change in Liaoning, 1850-2000 (in collaboration with Cameron Campbell).