Some Thoughts about Professional Fields of Ethnomusicologists in Museums by Lewy, Matthias

“…This is a short essay introducing some thoughts the professional fields of ethnomusicologists working within an ethnographic museum. …”
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Ethnomusicologists researching towns they live in: Theoretical and methodological queries for a renewed discipline by Araužo Samuel

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Urban music from Kosovo and Metohija in the researches of Serbian ethnomusicologists up to the second half of the twentieth century by Dumnić Marija

“…The analysis of the Kosovo and Metohija songbooks of the eminent ethnomusicologists from Serbia proved that urban folk music was very present in the field, but troublesome for regular ethnomusicological classification and interpretation, and also that there were several informants with urban settlement who performed for these ethnomusicologists plenty of folk songs. …”
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THE CONTRIBUTION OF NICE FRACILE TO THE STUDY OF THE MUSICAL FOLKLORE OF VOJVODINA by Vesna IVKOV

“…The immediate motive to produce this study is the marking of significant anniversaries in the field of ethnomusicology, both in the personal life of famous ethnomusicologist Nice Fracile and in the activities of the Academy of Arts of the University of Novi Sad. …”
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The Art of Ganga Singing: Cultural Tradition of the Dinaric Area by Joško Ćaleta

“…The author of the proposed book, the Sarajevan ethnomusicologist Ankica Petrović, remains the greatest proponent of the ganga music phenomenon in scholarly circles outside former Yugoslavia. …”
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“But what if they call the police?” Applied Ethnomusicology and Urban Activism in the United States by Maureen Loughran

“…A theory of method for activist centered work which connects academia with local, grassroots communities is discussed as well as the challenges of positioning oneself as an applied ethnomusicologist in the field.…”
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Identities of Svanibor Pettan by Ursula Hemetek

“…In our longstanding friendship I have witnessed some of Svanibor’s: ethnically Slovenian as well as Croatian, ethnomusicologist, engaged activist, ICTM official, white male, caring son, loving husband and loyal friend. …”
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The correspondence between Miodrag Vasiljević and Bulgarian Musicians by Jovanović Jelena L.

“…The Serbian ethnomusicologist and music pedagogue Miodrag A. Vasiljević corresponded with colleagues from neighboring Bulgaria between 1934 and 1962. …”
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Music in Culture, Music as Culture, Music Interculturally: Reflections on the Development and Challenges of Ethnomusicological Research in Australia by Sally Treloyn

“…This article provides an account of the response to the modern postcolonial prerogative in intercultural music research from a particular perspective and field: that of a non-Indigenous Australian ethnomusicologist (the author) who conducts research on Indigenous Australian musical traditions with Indigenous cultural performers and stakeholders. …”
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A Short Story about a Great Man: by Jasmina Talam

“…The first Bosnian ethnomusicologist, Friar Branko Marić, began to research the traditional folk music of Bosnia and Herzegovina in the 1920s and presented the results of his research in the doctoral dissertation Volkmusik Bosnien und der Herzegovina (1936). …”
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A Triple Insider's Take on Arts Therapy, Arts-based Community Development, and Huntington's Disease by Brian Schrag

“…In this article, I reflect on my experiences as someone with Huntington's Disease who works professionally as a development ethnomusicologist, and who creates musical, video, and graphic arts for healing in communities I know. …”
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BÉLA BARTÓK: “CONCERTO FOR ORCHESTRA”. ELEMENTS OF TURKISH FOLKLORE IN THE SOURCES OF A MASTERPIECE by Boglárka SZAKÁCS

“…The influence of the Hungarian, Slovakian, Romanian and Serbian folk music is evident in this work of Bartók, but there is limited information available about the traces of the last collecting tour of the composer and ethnomusicologist in 1936 to Anatolia, Turkey. Beside enumerating different sources of inspiration for this composition, present article aims to identify the influence of the Turkish Folk Music Collection in Béla Bartók’s Concerto. …”
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Audiovisual media in public ethnomusicology and education: A Sardinian experience by Lutzu Marco

“…My aim is to discuss the role played by ethnomusicologist in conceiving new strategies for the visual representation of the music of oral tradition in different productive contexts and audiovisual outputs.…”
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Miodrag Vasiljević’s margin notes on Béla Bartók’s study Morphology of Serbo-Croatian vocal folk melodies by Jovanović Jelena

“…The founder of modern Serbian ethnomusicology, collector of folk songs ethnomusicologist, and music pedagogue, Miodrag A. Vasiljević (1903–1963) was a younger contemporary of the famous Hungarian composer and ethnomusicologist Béla Bartók (1881–1945). …”
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ORNAMENTATION IN THE TRADITIONAL REPERTOIRE OF FIDDLER A. BIDIREL IN THE CONTEXT OF THE STYLISTIC AND INTERPRETATIVE PROBLEMS IN THE ROMANIAN FOLKLORE OF THE 21ST CENTURY by SLABARI NICOLAE, COTOS MIHAI

“…We refer to the Ethnography and Folklore Magazine, in which an article by the ethnomusicologist Tiberiu Alexandru is published, a number of unpublished manuscripts of Alexander Voievidca, the memories of this fiddler and a series of sound documents which are in the I.C.E.D. heritage, recorded by Constantin Brăiloiu. …”
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SÁNDOR VERESS’S THRENOS IN THE LIGHT OF ‘TRADITION’ AND ‘RENEWAL’ by Miklós FEKETE

“…Being a threnody, Veress inserts two folk-like funeral laments, which are the composer’s melodic inventions, in the style of folk music. Veress, the ethnomusicologist and composer presents the bartókian principle of how to capture the ethos of folk music in its structure, melody, harmony, and rhythm, and how to express it in such a modern and innovative way, that a completely new quality is born from it.…”
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Amar, Verbo Intransitivo – Um romance musical de Mário de Andrade by Simone Maria Ruthner, Carlinda Fragale Pate Nuñez

“…This essay seeks to demonstrate how the poet, writer, composer and ethnomusicologist used music for various purposes: to report landscapes in literature; to design the plot, or still to maximize the aesthetic effect of the text. …”
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Etnofon. Jak udostępniać dokumentalne nagrania muzyki ludowej? Z Jackiem Jackowskim rozmawia Piotr Grochowski by Jacek Jackowski, Piotr Grochowski

“… Jacek Jackowski is a musician and ethnomusicologist, and the head of the Phonographic Collection at the Institute of Art of the Polish Academy of Sciences. …”
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Ethnomusicology: Issues and Possibilities by Majid Hamdoon Al Harthy

“…Thus, the modern ethnomusicologist always seeks to associate him/herself to the musics of the «other» not only for the sake of understanding musical elements and structures, but also in order to gain a deeper understanding of the social and cultural aspects of the communities producing the music.…”
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La langue bretonne dans la Mission de folklore musical de Basse-Bretagne de 1939 by Gilles Goyat

“…The mission comprised a linguist, François Falc’hun (1909-1991), and an ethnomusicologist, Claudie Marcel-Dubois (1913-1989), equipped with what would have been considered at the time high-performance audiovisual equipment, namely a camera, a sound recorder and a moving images recorder. …”
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