Ethnomusicology: A Study of Intercultural Musicology

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This work describes how the discipline Ethnomusicology is a study of intercultural musicology. The history, theory and methodology of Ethnomusicology, the emergence of Ethnomusicology in India, the intercultural aspects in the scholastic and performing traditions in the music’s and theatres in Asia are dealt with to high light that Ethnomusicology is primarily a study of intercultural Musicology. This is the first work written by a non-western Ethnomusicologist who got her Ph.D in Ethnomusicology from the University in USA on the discipline of Ethnomusicology. The concept of intercultural Musicology which Dr Durga articulates in the work is a major breakthrough and her foresight in introducing the concept into the literature is commendable.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR S.A.K. Durga

Dr. S.A.K. Durga is the Professor Emeritus, Department of Indian Music, University of Madras, the Founder Director of the Center for Ethnomusicology, Madras. She has received her Ph.D. Ethnomusicology from Wesleyan University USA and did her Post-Post Doctoral Resear5ch in Ethnomusicology at Yale University, USA. She has also to her credit M.A. and M.Litt and Ph.D. in Indian Music from Madras University, India. Dr. Durga has a wide teaching experience in Indian and Foreign Universities to Indian and non-Indian students. Dr. Durga has published seven books on Indian Music and Ethnomusicology besides her many research papers in Indian and overseas journals of repute. Besides being an academician, Dr. Durga is a performing artist of Indian classical music and producer/performer of Avante Garde Music.

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Title
Ethnomusicology: A Study of Intercultural Musicology
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Edition
2nd Revised ed.
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ISBN
8188827010
Length
xiv+138p., Appendix; Bibliography; 23cm.
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