What is Ethnomusicology? – Classics for Kids https://www.classicsforkids.com/what-is-ethnomusicology/
If you love reading about composers, compositions, and music traditions, you’ve likely enjoyed something written by a music scholar. These folks go by many names and use many tools to study all these things. Not all musicological topics are historical, and not all music scholars are musicologists. So today, I want to break down for you the three major disciplines of academic music study people pursue when they want to write about music history and culture: musicology, ethnomusicology, and music theory.
Ethnography is a research technique where you go to a specific community or town and live with the residents