ABSTRACT
This chapter illustrates the relationship between the transmission of ethnomusicology and its capacity to enhance more democratic views in students. It describes the ways in which the transmission of non-canonical, more democratic concerns impacted on students' values, perspectives and beliefs. The chapter shows why many students expressed democratic social and musical values, conveyed through their growing belief in equality between all people and their musics, whilst others held on to certain eurocentric musical and cultural values. It focuses on the relationship between particular listening experiences and their capacity to enhance more democratic views in students. Listening to world musics in survey classes, students seemed to bring with them certain motivations, principal among which was a concern with musical mapping, categorisation and therefore disciplining in order to gain a global overview of all musics. Ethnomusicology is variously a sound-centred study of music or a sociocultural study of music.
