Diverse Musicological Studies

Musicology has expanded well beyond the analysis of scores and composers to examine how music shapes and is shaped by culture, environment, and community life—asking, for instance, how indigenous sound practices encode ecological knowledge, or how shared musical experience can ease social conflict. Ecomusicology and ethnomusicology sit at the center of this expansion, treating music as evidence about how human groups relate to the natural world and to one another across time and geography. Researchers are now grappling with urgent practical questions: how to preserve endangered musical traditions in ways that respect the communities who hold them, and how to make the underlying recordings, citations, and data accessible without stripping them of their original meaning. Open challenges include developing ethical frameworks for digital archiving and understanding how music-based peacebuilding efforts translate across radically different cultural contexts.

Works

198,062

Total citations

215,636

Keywords

EcomusicologyEthnomusicologyEnvironmental SustainabilityCultural ConservationMusic and PeacebuildingIndigenous Knowledge