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SOCIETY ETHNOMUSICOLOGY [1 record]

Record 1 2017-08-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • International Bodies and Committees
  • Music
  • Arts and Culture
OBS

Founded in 1955, the Society for Ethnomusicology is a global, interdisciplinary network of individuals and institutions engaged in the study of music in all historical periods and cultural contexts.

OBS

SEM is a U.S.-based organization with an international membership of approximately 1,750 individuals dedicated to the study of all forms of music from diverse humanistic and social scientific perspectives. [The Society examines] music as central to human experience throughout space and time, and explore its profound relationship to cognition, emotion, language, dance, visual arts, spiritual belief, social organization, collective identity, politics, conflict and peace, economics, the physical body, and mental health. Through SEM programs and the work of individual members, [this society seeks] to advance academic and public understanding and appreciation of music as a cultural phenomenon of unlimited variety and as a resource that is fundamental to the wellbeing of individuals and communities.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes et comités internationaux
  • Musique
  • Arts et Culture

Spanish

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