Foreword
The Foreword presents the Institutional framework of research in which this volume was conceived
comparative musicology
Perspectives on a 21st century comparative musicology. An introduction
This essay concerns a radical rethinking - at a theoretical and epistemological level - of the history of ethnomusicology, due to the profound transformation of the object of study. What perspectives may a comparative musicology have in the tweny-frst century? Are the theories and methods of investigation so far employed by ethnomusicologists still effective and useful? How can ethnomusicology be freed of the mith and ideology of its past history and its general funcion in the present reality be redefined? Does the label ethnomusicology still effectively identify our discipline?