In Defence of the Term and Concept of Traditional Music

Regardless of Eric Hobsbawm’s negativistic understanding, ‘tradition’ is a powerful and dynamic (and in no way traditionalist) concept academic folkloristics. The widespread scepticism against ‘traditional music’, both as recognizable field research matter theoretical thought, based on an insufficient sometimes stereotypic understanding term with fascinating history. I argue that there good reason to maintain which intrinsically linked core issues ethnomusicology, among them community-based music, cultural innovation, oral/aural transmission, sonic orders, stylistic pluralism.