Archives, Documentation and Ethnomusicology in Nigeria

Past, Present and Future in Ethnomusicology: the Computational Challenge

Ethnomusicology has changed its paradigm over the years, but the core of this field is mainly related to non-Western and folk music studies. It combines an anthropological and musicological point of view, not only studying the sound itself, but also its context. The MIR community is evincing interest in non-Western traditions, but this interest is still very recent. During the late break sessio...

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Computational ethnomusicology: a music information retrieval perspective

Computational ethnomusicology (CE) refers to the use of computational techniques for the study of musics from around the world. It has been a growing field that has benefited from the the many advances that have been made in music information retrieval (MIR). The historical development of CE and the types of tasks that have been addressed so far, is traced in this paper. The use of computationa...

Free rhythm: ethnomusicology and the study of music without metre

Like many other rhythmic terms, ' free rhythm' is widely enough used to be recognized as part of the vocabulary of musicology, without ever having been convincingly studied or even denned. In general, this term and its various synonyms refer to music without metrical organization. ' Free rhythm' is an important musical phenomenon which has been largely neglected by the field of ethnomusicology....

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