Ethnomusicology

 
In the New Harvard Dictionary of Music ethnomusicology is defined as "a subdivision of musicology concerned primarily with the comparative study of musics of the world, music as an aspect of culture, and the music of oral tradition".
In loose terms, Ethnomusicology is the academic study of musical cultures. Anthropology is the study of human culture, and Musicology is the study of music itself. Combine the two, and the result could also be called "Musical Anthropology." (About.com/Ethnomusicology)

Books in Polk Community College Library
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The Wellsprings of Music. Edited by Jaap Kunst. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1965.

Jùjú : a social history and ethnography of an African popular music. Christopher Alan Waterman Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990.

The Music of Central Africa; an ethnomusicological study: former French Equatorial Africa, the former Belgian Congo, Ruanda-Urundi, Uganda, Tanganyika. Rose Brandel. The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1973.

The Anthropology of Music.Alan P. Merriam. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 1964.

Musics of Many Cultures : an introduction. Elizabeth May, editor. Berkeley : University of California Press, 1980.

Sweet mother : modern African music. Wolfgang Bender ; translated by Wolfgang Freis. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1991.

Reggae routes : the story of Jamaican music. Kevin O'Brien Chang, Wayne Chen. Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 1998.

The rough guide to world music. Simon Broughton ... [et al.], editors. New York : Penguin, 1994.

Xylophone music from Ghana . Trevor Wiggins and Joseph Kobom. Crown Point, IN : White Cliffs Media Co., c1992.

Musical Life in a Changing Society : aspects of music sociology. Kurt Blaukopf ; translated by David Marinelli. Blaukopf, Kurt. Portland, Or. : Amadeus Press, c1992.

Seminole music. Frances Densmore. New York, Da Capo Press, 1972.

The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music. Bruno Nettl and Ruth M. Stone, advisory editors; James Porter and Timothy Rice, founding editors. New York : Garland Pub., 1998- + CDs.

bullet Vol. 1 (Africa)
bullet Vol. 2 (South America, Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean
bullet Vol. 3 (United States and Canada)
bullet Vol. 4 (Southeast Asia)
bullet Vol. 5  (South Asia : the Indian subcontinent)
bullet Vol. 6  (The Middle East)
bullet Vol. 7  (East Asia: China, Japan and Korea)
bullet Vol. 8 (Europe)
bullet Vol. 9 (Australia and the Pacific Islands )  
bullet Vol. 10 (The World's Music: General Perspectives and Reference Tools)

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How to locate articles in Databases accessible by using your PC at home

bullet Go to PCC Library homepage, then click on DATABASES (second blue bar on the left)
bullet Click on blue bar that says Remote Access Databases
bullet You will then enter your Borrower ID and PIN in the boxes indicated and press "Enter" to access these databases. 

            (Your Borrower ID is your SSN and the PIN is the last 4 digits of your SSN.)

bullet This will lead you to a page listing all the databases for PCC.

You will find full-text articles in these databases accessed from the Remote Access Databases

bullet Academic Search Premier
bullet InfoTrac OneFile
bullet Omnifile Full Text Mega
bullet First Search: Wilson Select Plus

 

Use keywords that describe the music you wish to research such as:

Instruments associated different music categories

 
African ritual Japanese
Andes Indian Jazz
Argentina (Tango, gaucho) Jewish (Israeli)
Asian Mexican (Mariachi band music)
Ballads Opera (German, French, Italian American , Rock)
Bards Protest
Big Band (and/or Swing) Rap
Bluegrass Reggae
Blues Rock 'n' roll
Brazilian (Samba, Bosa Nova) Ska
Cambodian Spanish dance music
Carrilon  
Celtic  
Christian church music  
Classical (European)  
Country (and/or Western)  
Ethnic music  
Ethnomusicology  
Flamenco  
Folk Music  
Gamelan (Java)  
Hip hop  
 
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Internet sites

Ethnographic studies resources [electronic resource] : a collection of resources in anthropology, ethnomusicology, folklore, and folklife / The American Folklife Center. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, [199?]- http://lcweb.loc.gov/folklife/other.html

Online Journals   listed on the website for the Society for Ethnomusicology  http://wwwdb.ucs.indiana.edu/sem/scripts/links/linkentries.cfm?lcID=4

Ethnomusicology, Folk Music, and World Music (Organizations,Institutions, Archives, Research Centers) http://www.lib.washington.edu/music/world.html

Ethnomusicology OnLine (Peer-reviewed multimedia Web journal) http://www.research.umbc.edu/eol/

Ethnomusicology Web sites http://www.research.umbc.edu/eol/other/other.html

Ethnomusicology Resources on the Web http://echarry.web.wesleyan.edu/ethno.html

Ethnomusicology folk music and world music http://www.siba.fi/Kulttuuripalvelut/folk.html

Cambodian Performing Arts (Court dance & music) http://www.research.umbc.edu/eol/cambodia/index.html

Aramusic.com http://www.aramusic.com/history.htm

Subject guide from Middlebury College http://www.middlebury.edu/lis/lib/guides_and_tutorials/subject_guides/guide-ethnomusicology/

C. K. Ladzekpo - African Music and Dance http://cnmat.CNMAT.Berkeley.EDU/~ladzekpo/

Archives of African American Music and Culture Selected List of Internet Resources for African American Music http://www.indiana.edu/~aaamc/index2.html

Ceolas houses the largest online collection of information on celtic music, and has links to hundreds of related sites. http://www.ceolas.org/ceolas.html

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Created by Ivy Prewitt
Last updated 10/27/2004

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