Learn how ethnomusicologists study a society's traditional music to better understand that society
Gini Gorlinski, associate editor of music and dance of Encyclopædia Britannica,...
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
Transcript
Ethnomusicology is fundamentally the study of culture using music as a point of access. We study not only how the music is put together but how it is totally intertwined with society.
[Music playing: "Wedding March" composed by Felix Mendelssohn]
You know what that tune is, and you know so many social elements and spiritual elements that are attached to that tune as part of the music as you know it. That's the study of ethnomusicology.
[Music playing: "Wedding March" composed by Felix Mendelssohn]
You know what that tune is, and you know so many social elements and spiritual elements that are attached to that tune as part of the music as you know it. That's the study of ethnomusicology.