Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.15378/1848-9540.2019.42.01
Musings on Ethnomusicology, Interdisciplinarity, Intradisciplinarity, and Decoloniality
Naila Ceribašić
orcid.org/0000-0003-3578-8515
; Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research, Zagreb, Croatia
Regina F. Bendix
; Institute for Cultural Anthropology/European Ethnology, Göttingen, Germany
Ana Hofman
; Institute of Culture and Memory Studies, ZRC SAZU, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Olga Pashina
; State Institute for Art Studies, Moscow, Russia
Timothy Rice
; Department of Ethnomusicology, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
Jonathan P. J. Stock
; Department of Music, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland
Abstract
Thinking from the perspective of Croatian ethnomusicology as one of ethnomusicologies "at home", the author muses on the position of ethnomusicology on a global scale, and in particular how it relates to mainstream English-language ethnomusicology and other fringe ethnomusicologies, the interdisciplinary links with sister disciplines (primarily ethnology and cultural anthropology), and endeavours to decolonize ethnomusicology. By taking into account the issue of reciprocity (or the lack thereof) between various disciplines and the linguocentric predicament of (ethno)musicological studies, she argues that more intellectual effort than is being currently exerted should be invested into engaged comparison of one's own fieldwork, analytical processes and research outcomes with cross-cultural ethnomusicological literature and literature in other disciplines of music studies. Related to this is her suggestion to take the issue of decoloniality seriously. Therefore, instead of mere celebration of different ethnomusicologies, she proposes a combination of "bi-ethnomusicologicality" and "going pidgin" ethnomusicology as means for making ethnomusicology a more relevant discipline on a global scale.
Keywords
ethnomusicology; interdisciplinarity; intradisciplinarity; decoloniality; bi-ethnomusicologicality; going pidgin ethnomusicology
Hrčak ID:
230754
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Publication date:
21.12.2019.
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