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Plucking on My Mbira: The ultra-relativist world of ethnomusicology.
Imagine a college music department and all the familiar images come to mind: practice rooms containing Steinway pianos, orchestras playing Mozart and Beethoven, harmonic analyses of Bach chorales scrawled across chalkboards. What will not come to mind, unless you spend time in such places, is students discussing topics like "Music and Globalization," "Cultural Studies, Feminist Theory, and the 'New Musicology,'" "Performance and Popular Culture in South Africa," or "The Music of Bebop."
Yet discuss these things they do. Welcome to the world of ethnomusicology, sire of the courses named above. Ellen Koskoff, president of the Society for Ethnomusicology and a ...
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