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ethnomusicologist

American  
[eth-noh-myoo-zi-kah-luhj-ist] / ˌɛθ noʊˌmju zɪˈkɑ lədʒ ɪst /

noun

  • ethnomusicologists
    plural
  1. a specialist in or student of ethnomusicology.


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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

“My dad was a holy roller preacher down in Virginia,” Mr. Thomas said in an interview in 2013 with Craig Morrison, a musician and ethnomusicologist.

From New York Times Feb. 6, 2023

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

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

“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

Others noted that Ms. Bonifassi had long engaged with black music, including recording two albums based on slave songs collected in the 1930s by the ethnomusicologists John and Alan Lomax.

From New York Times Jul. 4, 2018

While musicologists have often delved into earlier styles of songwriting and musical performance, there’s a key difference between the work of ethnomusicologists such as John and Alan Lomax and what’s explored in “American Epic.”

From Los Angeles Times May 14, 2017

But musicologists, music theorists, and ethnomusicologists are no longer ignoring pop.

From Scientific American Jan. 18, 2013

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