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3 unusual facts about Ethnomusicology


Nick Mulvey

While studying Ethnomusicology at the School of Oriental and African Studies, Mulvey met the other members of Portico Quartet.

Sandra Stahl Dolby

Sandra Stahl Dolby aka Sandra K. D. Stahl (b 1946) is a professor in Indiana University’s Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology and the American Studies Program.

Sriram Parasuram

Parasuram received his Ph.D. in Ethnomusicology from Wesleyan University, where he met Anuradha when she was a masters student.


Aboriginal music of Canada

Traditionally Inuktitut did not have a word for what a European-influenced listener or ethnomusicologist's understanding of music, "and ethnographic investigation seems to suggest that the concept of music as such is also absent from their culture."

Ashok Ranade

He was instrumental in foundation of Archives and Research Center for Ethnomusicology for American Institute of Indian Studies at Pune and worked as Associate Director from 1983 to 1984.

Berliner Phonogramm-Archiv

A collection of ethnomusicological recordings or world music, mostly on phonographs (cylinder records) assembled since 1900 in Berlin, Germany and

Clifford Thornton

He taught at Wesleyan University in the early 1970s; he brought many younger jazz musicians to perform on campus, giving the academic ethnomusicology world more exposure to current American music.

Conrad Herwig

He attended Goddard College in Plainfield, Vermont, where he received a Bachelor of Arts in Afro-Caribbean ethnomusicology, and Queens College, CUNY, with a Master of Arts, Jazz Studies.

Ferruccio Busoni

It was composed in 1913 and is based on North American indigenous tribal melodies drawn from the studies of this native music by ethnomusicologist, Natalie Curtis Burlin.

Giovanna Marini

From 1991 to 2002 she taught ethnomusicology in the University of Vincennes (Paris-VIII).

Grieg Academy

It offers 4-year undergraduate programs in Performance, Composition and Pedagogy/Music Education, and also 2-year Masters programs in Performance, Composition and Ethnomusicology.

Hugo Zemp

He taught ethnomusicology at the University of Paris X-Nanterre.

Indian Fantasy

The piece is based on several melodies and rhythms from various American Indian tribes; Busoni had received them from American ethnomusicologist Natalie Curtis Burlin.

Jabo language

Most of the material was recorded on site in Liberia by Herzog, who was primarily a folklorist and ethnomusicologist.

Jason Baird Jackson

Jason Baird Jackson (born 1969) is the Director of the Mathers Museum of World Cultures and an associate professor of folklore in the Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology at Indiana University Bloomington.

Julien Tiersot

Julien Tiersot (5 July 1857, in Bourg-en-Bresse (Rhône-Alpes) – 10 August 1936, in Paris), was a French musicologist, composer and a pioneer in ethnomusicology.

Lucie Rault

She is master of conference in the Museum of Natural History, and was chief of the department of ethnomusicology of the Musée de l'Homme.

Mark Slobin

He has been the president of the Society for Ethnomusicology and the Society for Asian Music.

Pan Shiji

In America she studied composition with Robert Turner at the University of Manitoba from 1976–80 and with Chou Wen-chung at Columbia University, New York, from 1980–88, and worked at the Columbia Center for Ethnomusicology.

Papa Susso

Susso has also been appointed as Regents' Lecturer in ethnomusicology in 1991 at the University of California, Santa Barbara, He appears alone with his kora or with his ensemble that includes singer/dancer Tapa Demba, balafonist Bala Kouyate and his son, Alhassan Susso, on second kora.

Tingstad and Rumbel

Nancy grew up in San Antonio and continued her musical education at Northwestern University where she was introduced to new influences, styles and intrigued by ethnomusicology which led to her joining the Paul Winter Consort.


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