ethnomusicologist
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ethnomusicologist (plural ethnomusicologists)
A researcher in the field of ethnomusicology.
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Although well known in America as a pianist, ethnomusicologist and teacher, he was not well known as a composer.
Commercially produced mbiras were exported from South Africa by ethnomusicologist Hugh Tracey from the 1950s onward, popularizing the instrument outside of Africa.
In the mid 1950s the mbira was the basis for the development of the kalimba, a westernized version designed and marketed by the ethnomusicologist Hugh Tracey, leading to a great expansion of its distribution outside of Africa.
Ethnomusicologist Marion Jacobson's is a serious work of musical and cultural history written in an engaging and accessible voice, in the tradition of books like Paul Berliner's That Half-Barbaric Twang.
In her nearly 50-year career as a songwriter and educator, she has taken on the role of an ethnomusicologist, drawing upon the wealth of American musical and rhythmic traditions in her work with children.
In 1995, musicologist Steve Knopoff observed Yirrkala women performing djatpangarri songs that are traditionally performed by men and in 1996, ethnomusicologist Elizabeth MacKinley reported women of the Yanyuwa group giving public performances.