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Postmodernism and Globalization in Ethnomusicology: An Epistemological Problem

Postmodernism and Globalization in Ethnomusicology: An Epistemological Problem

Nercessian, Andy H.

Hardcover

World Music

ISBN10: 0810841223
ISBN13: 9780810841222
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Published: Mar 26 2002
Pages: 160
Weight: 0.68
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.70 Depth: 8.82
Language: English

Is the music world clinging to an outdated school of thought in ethnomusicology? Nercessian shows how the theory of cultural relativism continues to detrimentally pervade ethnomusicological thought, and then offers a solution that may better serve musical study in today's more globalized world. At the heart of cultural relativism, which seeks to avoid imposing the standards of an outside culture on a work, is the emic-etic dichotomy, which delineates the perspective of the outsider and that of the culture of origin. Nercessian points out that in our increasingly globalized society, cultures are no longer separate and distinct. A new theory is necessary to account for the cultural overlap.

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