Ethnomusicology: 101
Date:
October 20 @ 12:45
12:45 pm — 2:00 pmth
Time:
October 20 @ 12:45
12:45 pm — 2:00 pm
Location:
Soorty Lecture Theater (E-121)
Organised By:
Audience:
All Faculty Members, All Staff Members, All Students
Description:
Ethnomusicology stands as one of the most interdisciplinary fields of contemporary research, bridging rigorous musical scholarship with insights from anthropology, religious studies, sociology, postcolonial theory, cultural studies, and beyond. This expansive scope reflects the discipline’s core conviction: that sound and music are never simply artistic phenomena, but are always embedded within broader social, political, and cultural contexts.
This panel discussion introduces the Habib University community to ethnomusicology’s rich research landscape and contemporary relevance. By bringing together established and published ethnomusicologists with diverse research interests and methodologies, we aim to demonstrate how music scholarship illuminates pressing questions about identity, power, tradition, and change in our globalized world.
Panelists will share their varied research trajectories, exploring how ethnomusicological inquiry engages with urgent themes—from decolonizing music pedagogy and documenting endangered musical traditions, to examining religion and music, and tracing how music mediates cultural memory and social resistance. This discussion is designed for students and faculty across disciplines who wish to understand music not as an isolated aesthetic object, but as a dynamic social practice. Whether you study education, social justice, culture, or the arts, ethnomusicology offers frameworks and questions relevant to your work.
This panel discussion introduces the Habib University community to ethnomusicology’s rich research landscape and contemporary relevance. By bringing together established and published ethnomusicologists with diverse research interests and methodologies, we aim to demonstrate how music scholarship illuminates pressing questions about identity, power, tradition, and change in our globalized world.
Panelists will share their varied research trajectories, exploring how ethnomusicological inquiry engages with urgent themes—from decolonizing music pedagogy and documenting endangered musical traditions, to examining religion and music, and tracing how music mediates cultural memory and social resistance. This discussion is designed for students and faculty across disciplines who wish to understand music not as an isolated aesthetic object, but as a dynamic social practice. Whether you study education, social justice, culture, or the arts, ethnomusicology offers frameworks and questions relevant to your work.
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