Ethnomusicology Overview
Broaden your musical horizons. Join a vibrant, friendly, intellectually engaging community of scholars studying music from global socio-cultural perspectives. U of T Ethnomusicology offers research strengths in the music of the Americas, Iran, Korea, Japan, and other regions. Undergraduates access the field through the History, Culture & Theory program or participation in non-Western ensemble courses. Graduates pursue ethnomusicology-specific degrees as members of Canada’s largest graduate ethnomusicological program.
Cast a Wide Net
Collaborate
While strongly supporting scholar-performers, U of T Ethnomusicology is an academic, research-focused area that casts a wide net. Students encounter stimulating interdisciplinary opportunities to combine world music and subjects such as anthropology, environmental studies, women’s studies, and religious studies. Ethnomusicology’s strong connection to the Ethnography Lab in the Anthropology department can provide students with interesting research paths and possibilities for paid work.
Join In
Ethnomusicology students get involved. They participate in regular colloquia shared with Musicology and Music Theory. They contribute to roundtables dedicated to student professionalization through practice presentations to peers and faculty, paper run-throughs, and grant- or cover letter-writing workshops. Master’s students venture into the community to conduct fieldwork for a substantial Toronto-focused research project. Less formally, a large and talented peer group provides all area participants with regular occasions for lively discussion, mutual support, friendship, and networking.
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Encounter Excellence
The strengths of Ethnomusicology at the University of Toronto reside in the attentive guidance, feedback, and encouragement that distinguished faculty with wide-ranging expertise provide students. Our faculty, and the students they supervise, regularly garner research awards from the Society for Ethnomusicology—in some years, sweeping the field. Faculty also have a strong record of winning research grants and offering students research assistantships.
Experience Diversity
A major university of international distinction located in the heart of one of the world’s great multicultural cities offers Ethnomusicology students access to extraordinary expertise in multiple fields and an exciting range of possible subjects for research. Toronto has the greatest concentration of musicians in Canada and ranks as Canada’s largest music market. Living in Toronto provides opportunities to experience and study music of myriad genres, cultures, and styles.
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Contact our Musicology, Ethnomusicology, and Music Theory Coordinator for more information about our Ethnomusicology area and programs.