ANTH398D Meeting 5

ANTH398D - EthnomusicologyMeeting 5 – ConservativeOctober 2, 2007

Presentations

•Past▫David Huron▫Journée d’études québécoises en musique

•Future▫Pop & Policy▫Éthique, droit et musique (Oct. 18-21,

register by Oct. 5)

Kingsbury Themes

•Critical Thinking•Making Links•List, switch, then back

Ethnomusicology as DisciplineMusical Ethnography

Ethnographic disciplines

•Cultural Anthropology•Linguistic Anthropology•Folkloristics•Ethnomusicology•Ethnohistory

Musical Ethnography

•Defining ethnomusicology through ethnography

•“Classic" ethnomusicology•Clear academic Other (musicologists)•Fieldwork on Music

Differences with Cultural Anthropology?•Play together•Reciprocity through music•Recordings•Transcription•Defending armchair?•Experimentation

Disciplinary Differences

•Relationship to psychology, folkloristics•Non-academic researchers•SEM/ICTM (vs. AAA)•Technology and material culture

(including instruments) •Less on current social issues•Moving on with inequalities

Participation and Performance

•Mantle Hood•Bi-musicality•Aesthetics•Dialogue•Competence (Noam Chomsky)•Béhague

Defining Ethnomusicology

•Historical parallels with anthro•Traditional, oral, ethnic

How Become Ethno?

•Musician▫Frustrated or not

•Discovered other music•Exposure to Culture•Learn about anthropology•Bi-musicality•Inclusive (women, non-US (Nketia),

practitioners)

World Music

•Creation of Otherness•West/Non-West•Broad View of Music•Music itself•Music and/as/in culture

“World Music”

•Music industry•Appropriation•Empress of Russia

Kingsbury

•Absolute music•Formal education•Talent•Musicality•Identity•Negotiated meaning of music•The field

Playlist• Ste No. 1- I: Prelude (BVW 1007), J.S. Bach Mstislav

Rostropovich• Sequenza III (per voce solo) (Luciano Berio), Cathy

Berberian• Sonatine bureaucratique, Erik Satie, Daniel Varsano• My Bonny Lass She Smelleth, PDQ Bach• The Planets: Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity, Gustav Holst• Contrapunctus 9, Canadian Brass• Contrapunctus 9, Saxophone Quartet• Quatuor- IV. Variation II, Quatuor Alexandre• Saxoctet : 3e mvt, José Évangélista, Quasar• Manu militari, Louis Dufort, Quasar• The Unknown Pedestrian, Alexandre Burton