Artistic Research in Music versus Musicological Musicianship

Abstract

Artistic research has fully established itself in the curricula of higher musical education in Europe. The strong associations between artistic research in music and music-making in service of research pose a challenge for those traditional musicologists and ethnomusicologists who wish to incorporate music making in their research practices. Especially with the emergence of an ever stronger artistic research scene in the genre of folk music, it may be argued that the role of music-making as a method for ethnomusicological enquiry has been unduly abandoned. In this article, the ethnomusicological concept of bimusicality and the benefits of performative ethnomusicology are brought forth.