ABSTRACT

In this article, we argue that ethnomusicology holds valuable epistemic insights for considering how to measure and evaluate research for academics, as well as for research policy and management professionals. We focus on two notable instances of standardised national research assessment frameworks: the UK’s Research Excellence Framework (REF), and Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) and identify the advantages of practice as research models for music research by considering the benefits of ethnomusicology’s reflexive and relativist methodologies to formal research assessment processes. To support our argument, we refer to published case studies of ethnomusicological research that reach beyond Western practice and thought to highlight the advantages recognising practice as research as a more inclusive modality of original knowledge production. We call upon ethnomusicologists to pro-actively engage with the formal processes of research assessment to make them more equitable and representative of our discipline’s broad commitment to decolonising academic practice.

摘要

在本文中，我们认为民族音乐学在考虑如何衡量和评估学者以及研究政策和管理专业人士的研究方面具有宝贵的认知见解。我们专注于标准化国家研究评估框架的两个显着实例：英国的卓越研究框架 (REF) 和澳大利亚卓越研究框架 (ERA)，并通过考虑民族音乐学的反思性优势来确定实践作为音乐研究研究模型的优势和正式研究评估过程的相对主义方法。为了支持我们的论点，我们参考了已发表的民族音乐学研究案例研究，这些案例研究超越了西方实践，并被认为突出了将实践视为研究的优势，它是一种更具包容性的原创知识生产方式。我们呼吁民族音乐学家积极参与正式的研究评估过程，使它们更加公平，并代表我们学科对非殖民化学术实践的广泛承诺。