Publication date
June 2015
DOI Publisher
Ljubljana University Press, Faculty of Arts (Znanstvena založba Filozofske fakultete Univerze v Ljubljani) ISSN
2350-4242 Journal
issn:0580-373XAbstract
This essay defines ethnomusicology as the study of people making music. People make sounds that are recognized as music, and people also make “music” into a cultural domain. The essay contrasts this idea of music as a contingent cultural category with earlier scientific definitions that essentialized music as an object
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