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Reflections on music and identity in Ethnomusicology
Author(s) -
Timoti Rajs
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
muzikologija
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2406-0976
pISSN - 1450-9814
DOI - 10.2298/muz0707017r
Subject(s) - ethnomusicology , identity (music) , theme (computing) , musicology , sociology , aesthetics , literature , musical , art , computer science , operating system
The relationship between music and identity became a commonplace theme in ethnomusicology beginning in the early 1980s. This article surveys all 17 articles published in the journal Ethnomusicology in the last 25 years with the word ′identity′ in the title in order to understand how ethnomusicologists have treated this subject. The survey reveals that the authors of these articles neither cite the general literature on identity nor one another. As a consequence, this article takes on the task of analyzing the ethnomusicological literature around basic questions found in the general literature, including what is identity, where does identity come from, how many identities do we possess, how is identity created, and who defines and institutionalizes identity. It concludes with some reflections on what music contributes to the construction and symbolization of identity

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