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Folk Music Studies and Ethnomusicology in Spain
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 March 2019
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In Spain, the establishment of ethnomusicology as a discipline fully conscious of its methods and objectives is relatively recent. Procursors can be seen in early studies of folk song which were catalyzed in European society by Herder and other scholars. It is obvious that 19th century research into Spanish folk song has little to do with current ethnomusicology, although there exists a common denominator: in both cases, scholars center their attention on those musics which are on the margin of “great musical art.” However, we could hardly understand the development and current state of the discipline in Spain if we did not take its beginnings in folk music studies into account. Comparative musicology of old, which concentrated on music of non-occidental origins and which laid the foundations of current ethnomusicology, was practically absent in the Spanish state. We do not find in Spain at that time a consolidated method or a satisfactory concretization of goals, but we can already encounter an object of study — denominated “folk music” — and social attitudes toward this object which allow us to consider those early collectors the predecessors of Spanish ethnomusicology.
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