The Relevancy of Ethnomusicology to the Study of British Folk Music

There is an image problem in the relationship between ethnomusicology and British folk music research. Everyone who has heard of ethnomusicologists said that ethnomusicology is only a study of non-Western music (And considering the general way of ethnic musicologists, that is not unreasonable There is no ordinary sense. Actually, it is not. Ethnologists are not very often in the UK, but they also study the tradition of the West - but here too, the sparseness of our local traditional research may not be as obvious than the dilution of our overseas traditional studies Hmm.

National music The study of the relationship between music and culture is called ethnological music science. Ethnomusicologists have studied music of a certain culture over the years. They live with the people they are learning and learn their language, customs, and myths. Ethnic musicians fully recognize that no matter how hard you try, you can not completely understand the music of other cultures. Most ethnomusicologists also live in the culture of the academic circle and publish papers on areas of interest. They used the same tools to examine the culture of the Gregorian chapel because they did culture of drum rituals. Modern ethnomusicology has also expanded to include researching new areas of biological linguistics, the general genetic need of humans, and the way in which music is created.

In the field of anthropology (the study of the historical development of human culture) there are many subfields, including ethnomusicological studies (intercultural studies of music) and ethnographic journals (dance ethnology, dance culture style studies) . Ethnomusicology and ethnography are both related to folk culture and folklore studies. For example, the Smithsonian Cultural Heritage Cultural Heritage Center aims to "understand cultural heritage and promote sustainability" in the United States and around the world.