Degree Granting Institutions
Boston University
School of Music - Musicology & Ethnomusicology (Graduate & Undergraduate)
The Department of Musicology and Ethnomusicology offers the MA and PhD in Musicology, Ethnomusicology, and Musicology and Ethnomusicology. Our department dedicates itself to interdisciplinary, disciplinary, historical, translational, analytical, and cross-cultural thinking. The faculty in the Department consists of a cohort of five musicologists and five ethnomusicologists, and houses research centers in Early Music and Beethoven studies.
Brown University
Dept. Of Music - Musicology & Ethnomusicology (Graduate)
Brown’s Ph.D. program in Musicology and Ethnomusicology allows students to study music of any kind from several perspectives, within a richly interdisciplinary environment. Students begin learning about the methods and materials of music studies with core seminars in ethnomusicology and historiography, while creating individually tailored programs of further study that suit their scholarly and professional needs.
Harvard University
Dept. Of Music - The Program of Ethnomuiscology (Graduate)
Ethnomusicology at Harvard offers intensive training in ethnographic method as well as study of theories, problems, and approaches relevant to the study of any living musical tradition in its cultural setting. The Harvard program has particular strengths in regions stretching from the Mediterranean to India, in Africa and African diasporas, and in urban America.
Trinity College
Introduction to World Music (Undergraduate)
A comprehensive survey of global musical traditions that encompasses rural and urban music from Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean, India, Asia, and the Americas. This course is designed to highlight the central role of musical expression in human life, exploring musical sound and movement in sacred, secular, ritual, and non-ritual contexts.
Wesleyan University
Research Skills In Ethnomusicology
This course provides an introduction to research methods in ethnomusicology, a discipline that studies all types of music (and sound), both in real life and digital, from diverse humanistic and social scientific perspectives. The course is organized around weekly hands-on exploratory and empirical mini projects moving from virtual field to real-world fieldwork to interviewing musicians to digital sound-mapping and music video editing, from learning about Wesleyan's wide-ranging music ensembles to writing album reviews to "composing" an ethnography, which will offer orientation to a discipline that has been central to Wesleyan's approach to music and sound for over 50 years.