Which of the following is an important theme from ethnomusicology? Group of answer choices You need only listen to understand
a people's music. Finding an isolated, pure music-culture. You need to know the context of a people's music. The homogeneous sound of all European music.
<u><em>One of the things that the 20th-century Anthropology brought was the concept of otherness</em></u>, or to be specific, the idea that the context which a certain civilization is based on it's important and must be considered. In this case where a piece of music is the study case, then the Anthropologist (or the specialist who is studying it)<u><em> should look at the people who created that song, analyzing their beliefs, social skills, cultural elements and points of view and, then, propose an understanding about that music.</em></u>
