New musicologies, old musicologies: Ethnomusicology and the study of western music From: Current Musicology | Date: April 1, 1997| Author: | Copyright Columbia University, Department of Music 1998. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

Introduction

Ethnomusicology currently engages with the study of Western music in two principal ways. On the one hand, there are specific ethnomusicological studies that focus on aspects of Western musical traditions. Examples include Paul Berliner's analysis of improvisation in jazz (199 4), Philip Bohlman's study of chamber music as ethnic music in contemporary Israel (1991), and the examinations of music schools and conservatories by Bruno Nettl (1995) and Henry Kingsbury (1988). These works, in and of themselves, offer explicit and direct indication of what an ethnomusicological approach ...