ethnic music (English notation) ethnic music

Japanese: ethnic music(英語表記)ethnicmusic
ethnic music (English notation) ethnic music

...This term has come to be widely used in recent years as a translation of "ethnic music" (it was adopted into Japanese dictionaries in the 1970s), but its meaning is not unambiguous. Since "ethnic music" originally meant "music unique to a group of people (= an ethnic group) with a common language and culture," in a broad sense, the works of JS Bach, Joruri by Takemoto Gidayu, and the music of the Beatles could all be called "ethnic music," but in practice these are excluded.

*Some terminology explanations that mention "ethnic music" are listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…この語はethnic musicの訳語として近年広く用いられるようになった(この語が日本の国語辞典に採用されたのは昭和50年代)が,その意味するところは一義的ではない。民族音楽とは本来〈共通の言語・文化をもつ人の集団(=民族)に固有な音楽〉という意味であるから,広義にはJ.S.バッハの作品も竹本義太夫の浄瑠璃もビートルズの音楽も民族音楽と呼ぶことができるが,実際にはこれらは除外される。…

※「ethnic music」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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