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While musicology tends to be purely about music itself (almost always western classical music), ethnomusicologists are often interested in putting the music they study into a wider cultural context, and that music is generally of an oral, rather than written, tradition. They will often live among the people whose music they are studying for some time. While some see ethnomusicology as a branch of musicology, ethnomusicologists themselves generally prefer to think of it as an equal of musicology, not a sub-section of it.
People who have done well known ethnomusicological work are frequently anthropologists studying many other aspects of a society as well as their music. An example of such a study is Colin Turnbull's study of the Mbuti[?] pygmies[?].
Two important centers for ethnomusicological study are the Universities of California at Los Angeles and at Santa Barbara.
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