Anthropology › Section P · Art, music, and sport › Topic P.2
Anthropology of music
Every society anthropologists have studied makes music, yet what counts as music, who may perform it and what it is for differ enormously. Ethnomusicology studies music as something people do together: a source of feeling, memory, identity, resistance and argument over who owns a sound.
In this topic
- A human universal with many forms
- Ethnomusicology
- The oldest instruments
- Sound and Sentiment
- Worked example: Merriam's three levels
- Recording and its responsibilities
- Music, identity and resistance
- Appropriation and power
- Worked example: Old Town Road
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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