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Film, Video What is Applied Ethnomusicology & Why Did They Say so Many Terrible Things About it?

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Title

  • What is Applied Ethnomusicology & Why Did They Say so Many Terrible Things About it?

Summary

  • Jeff Titon defines applied ethnomusicology as ethnomusicology put to practical use in a community for a social improvement, a cultural good, an economic advantage, a musical benefit or a combination of these. After defining applied ethnomusicology and offering some examples, Titon traces its history and suggests why the founding generation of the Society for Ethnomusicology held applied ethnomusicology in low regard, and why and how a new generation of ethnomusicologists, beginning in the 1980s, practiced applied work and gradually turned opinions around.

Names

  • Library of Congress
  • American Folklife Center, sponsoring body

Created / Published

  • Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 2015-01-14.

Headings

  • -  Biography, History
  • -  Culture, Performing Arts

Notes

  • -  Classification: Geography, Anthropology, Recreation.
  • -  Classification: Music and Books on Music.
  • -  Jeff Titon.
  • -  Recorded on 2015-01-14.
  • -  Librarians, Archivists.
  • -  Researchers.
  • -  Jeff Titon is co-editor of "The Oxford Handbook of Applied Ethnomusicology."

Medium

  • 1 online resource

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021692311

Online Format

  • video
  • image
  • online text

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Chicago citation style:

Library Of Congress, and Sponsoring Body American Folklife Center. What is Applied Ethnomusicology & Why Did They Say so Many Terrible Things About it?. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -01-14, 2015. Video. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021692311/.

APA citation style:

Library Of Congress & American Folklife Center, S. B. (2015) What is Applied Ethnomusicology & Why Did They Say so Many Terrible Things About it?. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -01-14. [Video] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021692311/.

MLA citation style:

Library Of Congress, and Sponsoring Body American Folklife Center. What is Applied Ethnomusicology & Why Did They Say so Many Terrible Things About it?. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -01-14, 2015. Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021692311/>.