ETHNOMUSICOLOGY

In this Very Short Introduction, one of the foremost ethnomusicologists, Timothy Rice, offers a compact and illuminating account of this growing discipline, showing how modern researchers go about studying music from around the world, looking for insights into bot h music and humanity. To investigate these diverse musical forms, Rice shows, ethnomusicologists typically live in a community, part icipate in and observe and record musical events, interview the musicians, their patrons, and the audience, and learn to sing, play, and danc...[Llegir més]