Word: ethnomusicologist
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...Afro-American studies would be incomplete if they were restricted to history and literature, Huggins says. He cites the need for an ethnomusicologist in the department, saying, "It is hard to imagine someone studying Afro-American life, history and culture without exposure to its music, because it is such an important element in the culture...
Tanjore Viswanathan, an internationally known Indian flutist, and ethnomusicologist, told an audience of approximately 50 people that South Indian flute music "requires a lot of concentration...
...there is an intellectual quality about Seeger which separates him from Guthrie and other singers who came out of the South and West. "Pete Seeger sings folk songs," Woody once said. "Bob Dylan is a folk singer." This other side of Seeger is the ethnomusicologist, (the trade which his father also pursues.) Seeger often refers in concert to Alan Lomax, who collected a lot of backwoods songs for the Library of Congress. This is work which Seeger believes in very strongly. "People often tend to forget their own culture," he says. "It takes somebody from the outside to come...
Militant young Negroes put a more defiant slant on it. Explains Charles Keil, a white ethnomusicologist and the author of Urban Blues: "For a Negro to say 'B. B. King is my main man' is to say 'I take pride in who I am.' With this self-acceptance, a measure of unity is gained, and a demand is made upon white America: 'Accept us on our own terms.' " Yet when soul solidarity is founded on a fellowship of suffering, it may involve not a demand for white acceptance but an outright exclusion of whites, as Godfrey Cambridge makes clear. "Soul...