ethnic music
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- noun
- /ˈɛθnɪk ˈmjuːzɪk/
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música étnica
- In a Grand Masters series article in Music Educators Journal, Charles Leonhard states that too many music programs and teachers are "unfamiliar with African American music and other ethnic music."
Examples
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Encourage the study of unique instruments from other cultures and their uses in ethnic music.
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Ethnic music will accompany the show.
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I'm very involved in ethnic music from all over the world.
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These efforts might include exchange concerts between schools, a combined concert, or sharing sponsorship of an ethnic music specialist to work with general music classes.
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There really are some parishes with either strong musical preferences or ethnic music traditions, but they are the exceptions that prove the rule.
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Many music educators and programs are unfamiliar with African American music and other ethnic music, popular music, contemporary art music, and jazz.
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The Tanglewood Symposium in 1967 resulted in such initiatives as the study of ethnic music, jazz, and electronic music.
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In terms of deciding whether ethnic music is of authentic quality, we may need to rely on the knowledge of colleagues whose familiarity with a particular type of music surpasses our own.
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Sung-speech diction is preferable for ballads and in folk and ethnic music, where culture dictates speech habits.
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At the festival, you can listen to ethnic music that showcases the traditions of various cultural groups.
Synonyms
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Traditional music passed down by people in a community
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Traditional songs and tunes that tell a community's stories and ways
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly and compositionally derived from 'ethnic' (relating to a cultural group) + 'music' (organized sound), so a B1 learner who knows both words can infer it refers to music characteristic of a particular community. This adjective+noun combination follows a common and cross-linguistically familiar pattern, making the phrase predictable and immediately comprehensible.
Etymology
Ethnic music comes from the idea of ethnic meaning 'people' or a community. Imagine songs sung at festivals or family events and passed down from parents to children; these songs tell a group's stories and show its customs, so today ethnic music means the traditional music of a particular community.