True or false: the methodologies of field research and musicological ethnography are central to the academic discipline of ethnomusicology.

a. True

b. False

The statement is "True".

Ethnomusicology is the investigation of music in its social setting. People working in the field may have education in music, social anthropology, fables, performance studies, social examinations, sexual orientation studies, race or ethnic investigations, area studies, or different fields in the humanities and sociologies.