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Since the first decades of the 20th century, when cross-cultural comparison constituted a central method through which Comparative Musicology sought to achieve its main goals, the comparative approach has gradually lost the researchers' interest to the extent of an almost total disappearance from the Ethnomusicological scene. The main question discussed in the present article is: to what extent cross-cultural...