What is Applied Ethnomusicology & Why Did They Say so Many Terrible Things About it?

Jeff Titon defines applied ethnomusicology as ethnomusicology put to practical use in a community for a social improvement, a cultural good, an economic advantage, a musical benefit or a combination of these. After defining applied ethnomusicology and offering some examples, Titon traces its history and suggests why the founding generation of the Society for Ethnomusicology held applied ethnomusicology in low regard, and why and how a new generation of ethnomusicologists, beginning in the 1980s, practiced applied work and gradually turned opinions around.
Speaker Biography: Jeff Titon is co-editor of "The Oxford Handbook of Applied Ethnomusicology."
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