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Ethnomusicology| History |  Music Pages

Ethnomusicologist strive to understand what music means to the people who are making it and also to understand it in the terms of music-maker's culture. The following pages are intended not to be an all inclusive list of major issues within the dicipline.  These pages will serve to function as a brief introduction into some of the major issues and concepts in the field of ethomusicology.  There are also external links to links to videos on the web about Ethnomusicology.    _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________   A Credo   Musical Creation   Universals Vs. Relativism       ____________________________________________________________________________ Videos ____________________________________________________________________________   "Ethnomusicology of the 90's: Perspectives of the History of Research"           by Bruno Nettl         http://videolectures.net/ff07_nettl_cwt/   "On Endangered Cultures"           by Wade Davis           http://www.ted.com/talks/wade_davis_on_endangered_cultures.html   "Berkley Writers at Work - Bonnie Wade"              http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjLlthHXr68 "The state of the Field of Ethnomusicology" Timothy Rice http://vodpod.com/watch/647468-the-state-of-the-field-of-ethnomusicology