ethnomusicologist
noun
a specialist in or student of ethnomusicology.
ethnomusicologists
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pluralof ethnomusicologist.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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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
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
