ethnomusicology

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Even more consequential was the trust that the Barbers placed in Marshall Stearns, who had an academic pedigree in medieval literature and a subsuming interest in the ethnomusicology of jazz.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 28, 2025

In addition to N.Y.U., he taught ethnomusicology, folklore and Irish studies at the University of Pennsylvania and at Georgetown and Villanova.

From New York Times • Aug. 1, 2022

Over the years, he taught ethnomusicology, folklore and Irish studies courses at Penn as well as Georgetown and Villanova universities.

From Washington Post • Jul. 29, 2022

The initiative will also be steered by Kelly Lytle Hernandez, the director of the Ralph J. Bunche Center; Bunche assistant director Tabia Shawel; and Samuel Lamontagne, Ph.D. candidate in ethnomusicology.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 28, 2022

He was also a tireless collector and annotator of East European folk song, and is in fact one of the chief architects of a whole branch of music study known as ethnomusicology.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall