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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 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

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

From Scientific American • Jan. 18, 2013