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Power Dynamics in Ethnomusicology by Kim Munoz is a document available to read on EtoBox.
This document summarizes an academic article titled "Sound, Silence, Music: Power" published in the journal Ethnomusicology in 2014. The article argues that ethnomusicology is inherently limited in its ability to critically analyze power structures because it remains wedded to the concept of "music" as an autonomous aesthetic object. It asserts that music departments normalize assumptions about music that ethnomusicologists often disagree with. To have more influence, the author claims ethnomusicology must
- Author
- Kim Munoz
- Language
- EN