Interdisciplinarity and Musical Exceptionalism

Abstract

Abstract Expressive culture provides a rich environment for investigating the power dynamics of culture, not just for ethnomusicologists, but for scholars in many fields. In my own work, I try to demonstrate how performances of music and dance in particular both (1) reify and reinforce a perception of immutable values and, at the same time, (2) provide a context for exploring alternatives and changing values. I think ethnomusicologists are in a unique position to illuminate this seeming contradiction: cultural behaviors simultaneously enact both stability and change. To reach scholars in other disciplines with our insights, however, ethnomusicologists must continue to question definitions of music and broaden our disciplinary limits to explicitly include a wide range of performances.

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