ABSTRACT
The transmission of ethnomusicology at macro and micro level is often steeped in ideas of progression, so that teaching and learning becomes separatist and specialist. This was frequently reflected in the division between undergraduate and postgraduate studies, which progressed from simple to complex and covered somewhat distinct, specialist subject matters and methods. Progressive learning also exists within the content of individual courses, both at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Both issues will be discussed in this chapter, followed by ethnomusicologists', which equally resonated with the concept of progression in the transmission of ethnomusicology. The chapter introduces some of the overarching key characteristics of musical transmission at universities in the UK and Germany, noting the frameworks of study available there in the areas of world musics and ethnomusicology. It discusses some of the categorise, classify and critique world musics and ethnomusicology courses both at undergraduate and postgraduate level, while drawing on relevant ethnomusicological and educational discourses.
