Experiencing Ethnomusicology
25 November 2009
Simone Krüger, Senior Lecturer in Music at LJMU, is releasing a new book entitled ‘Experiencing Ethnomusicology: Teaching and Learning in European Universities'.
Krüger provides an innovative account of the transmission of ethnomusicology in European universities that explores the ways in which students experience and make sense of their musical and extra-musical encounters.
By asking questions as to what students learn about and through world musics – musically, personally, culturally – Krüger argues that musical transmission, as a reflector of social and cultural meaning, can impact on students’ transformations in attitude and perspectives towards self and other. In doing so, the book advances current discourse on the politics of musical representation in university education as well as on ethnomusicology teaching and learning, and proposes a model for ethnomusicology pedagogy that promotes in students a globally, contemporary and democratically informed sense of all musics.
Professor Jonathan Stock, University of Sheffield, commented: “Krüger asks what ethnomusicology is achieving in higher education: whose voices it projects, what values it expresses, what students make of the panoply of world musics and musicians thrust upon them, and how far, finally, teachers of world music succeed in their educationally transformative interventions.”
“Informed by fieldwork at institutions in Britain and Germany, and by Krüger’s own experiences as teacher and former student, this is a provocative and necessary study, rich in insights for ethnomusicologist and music educator alike.”
The book is due for release this December.
