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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

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

Brown’s parents — Cheryl, an education teacher, and Leonard, an ethnomusicologist — made it a point each night to eat dinner with their three children and discuss their days.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 28, 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

The three women had studied as ethnomusicologists, and they had delved into Ukraine’s varied regional styles.

From New York Times ● Mar. 3, 2022

“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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