ethnomusicologist
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The concept of “musicking,” coined by the ethnomusicologist Christopher Small to describe the wider culture around music and listening, provides Mr. Gennari with a framework for his history.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 28, 2025
For Eduardo Herrera, an ethnomusicologist at Indiana University who has studied Argentine soccer chants, the unity they create feels a little like a religious experience.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 17, 2022
Another University of Chicago faculty member, ethnomusicologist Philip Bohlman, was recognized for his work focusing primarily on European and Jewish music.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 12, 2022
Kobzars, the ethnomusicologist Maria Sonevytsky said in a phone interview, constituted some of the earliest experiments in Ukrainian musical sovereignty.
From New York Times ● May 13, 2022
As an ethnomusicologist or researcher for your classroom, however, it is important to be able to articulate the culture’s beliefs about music by observing people’s behavior and thoughts about music.
From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin
They interviewed blues legends and ethnomusicologists, as well as the top singer of traditional Sean-nós vocal music in Ireland.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 16, 2025
His parents were both church musicians, and his father was one of the first U.S. ethnomusicologists to study the Philippine Islands, recording Indigenous music on reel-to-reel tapes.
From New York Times ● Feb. 3, 2024
“The one that I use is that ethnomusicologists are concerned with how people build their world through music and sound.”
From Washington Post ● Jul. 20, 2021
As early as the nineteen-thirties, ethnomusicologists and folklorists such as Alan Lomax travelled to places like Parchman Farm, Mississippi’s notorious state penitentiary, to make field recordings of prisoners working in the sweltering cotton fields there.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 22, 2019
But musicologists, music theorists, and ethnomusicologists are no longer ignoring pop.
From Scientific American ● Jan. 18, 2013
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