MUSIC / Ethnomusicology

Paper · Semantic Scholar

This paper is a historical study of the Etawah gharana (Imdad Khani gharana) with a view to exploring one of the most significant instrumental gharana in Hindustani classical music. The gharana is set in its historical context in the development of musical lineages that solidified in the late Mughal and colonial era, and how it was developed by Imdad Khan (1848-1920) and passed down from one generation to the next t…

Reference · Wikidata

study of music emphasizing cultural, social, material, cognitive, biological, and other dimensions

Encyclopedia · Wikipedia

Ethnomusicology is the multidisciplinary study of music in its cultural context. The discipline investigates social, cognitive, biological, comparative, and other dimensions. Ethnomusicologists study music as a reflection of culture and investigate the act of music-making through various immersive, observational, and analytical approaches. This discipline emerged from comparative musicology, initially focusing on no…

Book · DOAB

Iran’s particular system of traditional Persian art music has been long treated as the product of an ever-evolving, ancient Persian culture. In Music of a Thousand Years, Ann E. Lucas argues that this music is a modern phenomenon indelibly tied to changing notions of Iran’s national history. Rather than considering a single Persian music history, Lucas demonstrates cultural dissimilarity and discontinuity over time,…

Full text · Open Library

Image · DPLA

Photograph of Joel Lester speaking during his residency at the University of North Texas held as part of the Music History, Theory, and Ethnomusicology lecture series.