Philip V. Bohlman on Music

“Fundamental to the ethnomusicologist’s understanding of and passion for music is that music insistently becomes more than itself – music and/in/of culture; music as text/context; music and religion/ritual/the sacred; music and the body/embodied experience/dance/performance; music and race/racism/the racial imagination; music as everyday/marked experience; music in/out of time; music emplaced/displaced; music experienced through hearing/listening/noise/silence.”
                            Philip V. Bohman, SEM Newsletter, XLII(2008), no. 1, p. 1.