Kunst, Jaap

Kunst, Jaap

▪ Dutch musicologist
born Aug. 12, 1891, Groningen, Neth.
died Dec. 7, 1960, Amsterdam

      Dutch ethnomusicologist who was one of the founders of modern ethnomusicology.

      Kunst began to study the violin at an early age and became seriously interested in the folk culture of The Netherlands, learning its songs, dances, and style of violin playing. After earning a law degree in 1917 from the University of Groningen, he worked in banking and law for two years before joining a string trio that toured the Dutch East Indies. Kunst remained in Java until the mid-1930s, both working for the government and collecting and studying the native music, especially that of the Javanese gamelan. In 1930 his growing reputation as an authority on Indonesian music brought him a position as musicologist for the Dutch government, and he began to make extensive field trips, assembling many musical instruments, recordings, books, and photographs.

      Returning to The Netherlands in 1934, Kunst began a European lecture tour, and in 1936 he became curator of the Royal Tropical Institute of Amsterdam, beginning what was to become one of the greatest musicological collections in Europe. He later lectured in Europe and in the United States, joining the faculty of the University of Amsterdam in 1942. Kunst's written output was extensive; his studies of Indonesia remain standard reference works. His most influential work was Ethnomusicology (first published 1950; 3rd ed., 1959), which established the modern approach to the field of ethnomusicology (a term he invented) and which includes a bibliography of roughly 30,000 items. His work gave the field a solid foundation.

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