Abstract

Ethnomusicology is a branch of study that focuses on, the study of music across the world from a social and cultural perspective. While musicology delves into scholarly research of music alone, ethnomusicology combines social and cultural elements with the scholarship of music/music-making. Music has embraced an interdisciplinary hermeneutic and, a new wave of global musicking has brought Indian music to the forefront. This article explores Ethnomusicology from the eyes of a Carnatic musician and attempts to explain where ethnomusicology (as a social science) fits in the context of psychology and anthropology.