A graduate of the University of Colorado at Boulder with a master of arts in music education, Robert Styron has provided instruction in multiple musical disciplines and fields and directed choir activities at a number of learning institutions. He is a current resident artist of the Hymel School of Music in Greater New Orleans, Louisiana. One of Robert Styron’s professional and academic interests is ethnomusicology.
Briefly defined, ethnomusicology is a field of musical study that concentrates on the sociocultural elements and implications of music. Regarding music as a human process, the field investigates various types of music to determine what they mean to those who create and play them and those who listen to them.
Ethnomusicologists come to this highly interdisciplinary field from backgrounds that range from musical performance and theory to cultural anthropology and folklore. Although they use different methods and focus on different areas of study, they universally approach music with a global perspective and examine it within a broad social and cultural context.
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