Anthropology of Music
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What is ethnomusicology? What is it that ethnomusicologists do? In which ways are ethnomusicologists initiated into the musical culture that they study? How do musical performance and experience help us understand a musical culture?... more
“Exigimos o Amor: A Música como Articulador de Afetos Políticos.” Em Poderes do Som: Políticas Escutas e Identidades, editado por José Cláudio S. Castanheira, Dulce Mazer, Pedro Silva Marra, Marcelo Bergamin Conter, Cássio de Borba Lucas... more
Here selected audio files deriving from the field research of 1997 in Central Ethiopia are listed chronologically. The Dissertation paper, in this case mainly volume II (Parts I – IV; see on the last page the last 4 red highlighted... more
Storytelling has been theorised as a performative, narrative practice, but it has not been employed often as a trope in studies of musical performance. This article outlines a theoretical context for exploring the possibilities of such a... more
2018. « Mongol dakhi khöömiin övluulelt » (La transmission du khöömii en Mongolie), Chinggis Khaan Sudlal 27, Ulaanbaatar : Université Chinggis Khaan, p. 141-146.
Écouter, WuYuan » , premier album de ce projet signé par le musicien Li Chao, c'est se plonger dans une expérience unique et singulière, c'est écouter les histoires de fantôme prendre vie, se laisser happer par une forme sombre et... more
Main ethnomusicological theories relate traditional songs to ethnicities, and these ethnicities are used as elements of political claim. The contribution of this investigation is the analysis of these politicized relations in the present... more
"When I Wear My Alligator Boots examines how the lives of dispossessed men and women are affected by the rise of narcotrafficking along the U.S.-Mexico border. In particular, the book explores a crucial tension at the heart of the “war on... more
The Kfar Blum festival is an annual chamber music festival at a kibbutz in northern Israel involving three public bodies. Soon after its inauguration, it was dominated by audiences of élite groups who gave it a specific character and made... more
El presente curso ofrece una aproximación a distintas culturas musicales del mundo, entendidas como sistemas sonoros que adquieren significación en relación a sus contextos y prácticas de reproducción. A partir de literatura... more
Da Cage ai Pink Floyd, da Schaeffer e i suoi eredi ai Soft Machine, da Edgar Varèse a Iannis Xenakis, dai compositori acusmatici ai DJ contemporanei, la ricerca elettroacustica ed elettronica ha vissuto e continua a vivere una felicissima... more
With more than a dozen number one singles, multiple Grammy wins and nominations, and Songwriter of the Year Award from BMI, the 26-year-old producer and songwriter Benny Blanco has ensured his place in the history of popular music. Some... more
PALAU VALDERRAMA, Paloma. Fugas y jugas: alianzas sónicas en un baile-música-performance de la gente negra del sur del valle del río Cauca (Colombia). Revista Colombiana de Antropología, Bogotá, v. 57, n. 2, p. 47-68, Dec. 2021... more
This article examines five common misunderstandings about case-study research: (a) theoretical knowledge is more valuable than practical knowledge; (b) one cannot generalize from a single case, therefore, the single-case study cannot... more
The Sorbs, being today the smallest slavish nation, are present in history of music since the 16th century. Till the end of 18th century the works of Sorbian composers had been created mainly in the trend of religious music. Composed... more
An English summary of the more detailed Spanish commentary is provided on both COs; readers should consult the Spanish notes for specific information about instrumentation and for translations of the Quechua song texts.
From electroacustic music to Byzantine cantillation and vice versa: Vladimir Jovanović, composer The relationship between the artist and the time in which he creates is almost always two-way – the historical moment forms choices, styles... more
A Leonardo review of Popular Music of Vietnam: The Politics of Remembering, the Economics of Forgetting by Dale A.Olsen Routledge, 2008/2010 by Jonathan Zilberg, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Accessible at:... more
La techno est un genre musical qui parle à tous les connaisseurs de musiques électroniques, et plus largement. Dans certains ouvrages scientifiques et divers contenus médiatiques des vingt dernières années, il est rare d’en extraire un... more
This dissertation argues that ‘PC Music’, a label, artistic collective, and genre world, animates musical relationships to time and the political philosophy of accelerationism, a theory that seeks to speed up in order to escape the... more
Von einem nationalen Standpunkt betrachtet wurde die Kultur der Italoalbaner und Italogriechen als ,,linguistische Minderheit“ marginalisiert und aufgegeben – mit dem Ergebnis, dass ihre Sprachen nicht mehr an den Schulen unterrichtet... more
"The most wide-ranging and detailed of all the books on rave. More than the study of a musical movement or genre, Technomad offers an alternate history of cultural politics since the 1960s, from hippies and Acid Tests through the sound... more
RESUMEN En los últimos años, la fusión intercultural en Lima ha ido cre-ciendo hasta convertirse en un género musical «nacional» portador y visibilizador de interacciones intersociales e interétnicas, las cuales retan la segregación... more
Phronetic organizational research is an approach to the study of management and organizations focusing on ethics and power. It is based on a contemporary interpretation of the Aristotelian concept phronesis, usually as ‘prudence’.... more
Nel 2007 ho condotto una ricerca sulla lavorazione della canapa nell'area di Pisoniano (Roma) e nella Valle dell'Aniene, rivolta in particolare al rilevamento del paesaggio sonoro che contrassegnava questo tipo di pratica. Nel corso delle... more
"Ha nagyvárosi aluljárókban sétálunk, gyakran találkozhatunk szintetizátorral, gi-tárral felszerelt evangelizáló csoportokkal, akik fennhangon hirdetik a körülöttük összegyűlt néhány fős 'tömegnek', hogy Jézus itt van köztünk. Közben... more
This paper explores the ethics of ethnomusicology through a case study into Ida Halpern's recordings of First Nations music. The paper develops a performative model of First Nations music as a mnemonic device in law, and explores moral... more
In the present short entry, two stopped flute ensembles called mbasi and viyanzi of the Madi and Zaramo people’s groups of Tanzania will be discussed successively.
A documentary chronicle of the Bulgarian traditional music at the First Bulgarian Fair in Plovdiv in 1892.
The Aalborg Project may be interpreted as a metaphor of modern politics, modern administration and planning, and of modernity itself. The basic idea of the project was comprehensive, coherent, and innovative, and it was based on rational... more
This article aims to further the ethnomusicological study of pilgrimage by examining the role of music in two US evangelical Christian conferences. Through congregational singing, participants imagine the conference gathering to be an... more
At the same time that case studies are widely used and have produced canonical texts, it may be observed that the case study as a methodology is generally held in low regard, or is simply ignored, within the academy. For example, only 2... more
The feast of San Zopito in Loreto Aprutino, in Abruzzo, is composed by a plethora of intertwined elements, in which the formalization of sounds acquires a central, determinant role. The whole ceremonial is defined by a particular... more
This article is the result of an investigation into the information available on João de Deus de Castro Lobo (1794-1832), the most productive Afro-Brazilian composer from the State of Minas Gerais during the first half of the 19th century... more
The origin of human musicality is often discussed within a dichotomous nature-or-culture framework. However, recent developments in neuroscience and evolutionary theory are opening up possibilities for ‘dual inheritance’ models. Emerging... more
This study examines the role of musical tradition in unifying the spiritual itineraries of a globalized religious community. Within the Muridiyya, an important Senegalese Sufi order, the singing of Arabic poetry written by Shaykh Ahmadu... more
En este artículo se presenta una serie de reflexiones sobre el Festival de músicas del Pacífico “Petronio Álvarez” que se realiza en la ciudad de Cali (Colombia), las tradiciones musicales que en él se interpretan y performatizan y las... more