ethnomusicology
Americannoun
noun
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Etymology
Origin of ethnomusicology
First recorded in 1945–50; ethno- + musicology
Example Sentences
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Even more consequential was the trust that the Barbers placed in Marshall Stearns, who had an academic pedigree in medieval literature and a subsuming interest in the ethnomusicology of jazz.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 28, 2025
He studied composition and ethnomusicology at Tokyo University of the Arts and began playing around with synthesizers and performing in the local pop scene.
From New York Times ● Apr. 2, 2023
Over the years, he taught ethnomusicology, folklore and Irish studies courses at Penn as well as Georgetown and Villanova universities.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 29, 2022
The initiative will also be steered by Kelly Lytle Hernandez, the director of the Ralph J. Bunche Center; Bunche assistant director Tabia Shawel; and Samuel Lamontagne, Ph.D. candidate in ethnomusicology.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 28, 2022
He was also a tireless collector and annotator of East European folk song, and is in fact one of the chief architects of a whole branch of music study known as ethnomusicology.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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