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Sociomusicology (from Latin: socius, "companion"; from Old French musique; and the suffix -ology, "the study of", from Old Greek λόγος, lógos : "discourse"), also called music sociology or the sociology of music, refers to both an academic subfield of sociology that is concerned with music (often in combination with other arts), as well as a subfield of musicology that focuses on social ...
The musical interval tritone was not banned by the Catholic Church and was not associated with devils during the Middle Ages. [186] [187] Early medieval music used the tritone in Gregorian chant for certain modes. [188] Guido of Arezzo (c. 991 – c. 1033) was the first theorist to discourage the interval. [188]
Musicology (from Greek μουσική mousikē 'music' and -λογια-logia, 'domain of study') is the scholarly study of music.Musicology research combines and intersects with many fields, including psychology, sociology, acoustics, neurology, natural sciences, formal sciences and computer science.
As a student, he read PPE at Oxford and earned a doctorate in sociology from UC Berkeley.He is the author of many books, including The Sociology of Rock (Constable, 1978), Sound Effects: Youth, Leisure and the Politics of Rock 'n' Roll (Pantheon, 1981), Art into Pop (Methuen, 1987 – written with Howard Horne), Music for Pleasure: Essays on the Sociology of Pop (Cambridge University Press ...
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Ethnomusicology (from Greek ἔθνος ethnos ‘nation’ and μουσική mousike ‘music’) is the multidisciplinary study of music in its cultural context, investigating social, cognitive, biological, comparative, and other dimensions involved other than sound.
A woman digs in a dry stream bed in Kenya to find water during a drought.. A streambed or stream bed is the bottom of a stream or river and is confined within a channel, or the banks of the waterway. [1]
These are correlated with sexual permissiveness, status of women, and treatment of children as the principal formative social influences. The musical styles are at the same time symbolic or expressive of such social influences, especially in the various musical communities of Spain and Italy, and are stable, persistent.