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            In the early stages of the discipline, ethnomusicologists focused mainly on non-European a

            transmitted music cultures.  However, in the 1950s, Charles Seeger and several other music
            to emphasize the need for ethnomusicologists to study any music culture, in any place or t
            sense, Western classical music is as valuable as West African highlife music or as heavy m

            distinguishes ethnomusicology from other disciplines is not an area of study, but the appr
            study of music, which relies mainly on an ethnographic method of research.
            This anthropological orientation of the ethnomusicological discipline is favored also at t

            including in our own publications (see for example Prague Soundscapes, written by Zuzana J
            in which the authors deal with Prague’s multiple contemporary musical worlds).

            At FHS CU, the students can choose from a rich variety of music courses about Western and 
            traditional and popular, music cultures, offered on both bachelor’s and master’s levels of
            courses, students do not only learn about a wide variety of music cultures, but also about

            ethnomusicological and anthropological theoretical concepts, as well as about practical as
            ethnography (fieldwork, data collection, analysis, writing, and interpretation). In this r
            the basic insight into the theory and practice of ethnomusicology. Moreover, under the sup

            FHS CU ethnomusicology faculty, students design and manage their own research projects, ei
            classes, or for their bachelor’s and master’s theses.
            Besides the regular selection of courses, FHS CU students can also register for extra cour

            courses, or summer schools), taught by internationally recognized guest professors (e.g., 
            from Colombia University, Kay Kaufman Shelemay from Harvard University, Luis-Manuel Garcia
            of Birmingham). Furthermore, our students are often also invited to participate in the pre

            a variety of ethnomusicological projects: conferences, events, books, audiovisual publicat
            exhibitions.


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