Ethnomusicology

Ethnomusicology is a musicological discipline that investigates music as a social and cultural phenomenon within specific societies and traditions, emphasizing the relationship between musical practices and their cultural contexts through ethnographic and comparative methods.

Publications

117.7K

Citations

Authors

900

Institutions

Publications per year

2017–2026

344

Parents

Musicology

Children

Applied EthnomusicologyComparative MusicologyDiaspora MusicIndigenous Music StudiesInstrumental TraditionsMusic RevitalizationParticipant ObservationPerformance ContextsPopular MusicRace

Publications

The audible past: cultural origins of sound reproduction

Choice Reviews Online · 2003 · 978 citations

Humanities, Cultural Studies, Ethnomusicology +6

Cassette culture: popular music and technology in north India

Choice Reviews Online · 1993 · 639 citations

Humanities, Cultural Studies, Musicology +10

The Cultural study of music: a critical introduction

Choice Reviews Online · 2003 · 612 citations

Humanities, Cultural Studies, Musicology +14

In time with the music: the concept of entrainment and its significance for ethnomusicology

Martin Clayton, Rebecca D. Sager, Udo Will · Durham Research Online (Durham University) · 2005 · 594 citations · Full text

Humanities, Musicology, Psychology +17

Dangerous Crossroads: Popular Music, Postmodernism and the Poetics of Place.

Gage Averill, George Lipsitz · Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews · 1996 · 570 citations

Humanities, Cultural Studies, Ethnic Studies +17

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Bruno Nettl
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, United States
26 publications · 1.6K citations
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Timothy Rice
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, United States
17 publications · 1K citations
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Peter Manuel
The Graduate Center, CUNY, United States
16 publications · 620 citations
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Regula Burckhardt Qureshi
University of Washington, United States
12 publications · 430 citations
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Kay Kaufman Shelemay
Harvard University Press, United States
13 publications · 574 citations
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Institutions

900

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Venues

Choice Reviews Online
CRO · 202 publications · 17.4K citations
74
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Ethnomusicology
306 publications · 12.2K citations
55
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Yearbook for Traditional Music
99 publications · 4.4K citations
37
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Notes
56 publications · 2.9K citations
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Ethnomusicology Forum
72 publications · 2.4K citations
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