Ethnomusicology critical of tourism: An ecomusicological proposal from the Balearic Islands

Authors

  • Amadeu Corbera Jaume Conservatori Superior de Música de les Illes Balears

Keywords:

ecomusicology, applied ethnomusicology, tourism, ecological crisis, heritage, colonialism, imperialism

Abstract

The tourism industry is one of the foremost world economic engines and one of immense importance in the Catalan Countries at large and above all in places like the Balearic Islands. Curiously enough, however, ethnomusicology has only turned its attention to this mass phenomenon in relatively recent times. This article, which stems from some reflections in the sphere of the author’s teaching activity, poses the need to develop ethnomusicology

critical of tourism in the Balearic Islands which should adopt, from an emic standpoint, the tools of the growing field of ecomusicology in order to complete a radical comprehensive proposal. All this should allow us to better exert an influence in the challenges which are posed to us as scholars, professional researchers and citizens by the socioecological crisis of the 21st century in the Balearic Islands.

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Published

2023-11-30

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