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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?
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
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, practitioners)
Credo
•Holism (Total musical systems)•Music in a culture•Fieldwork•All musics
Changes Credo
•Holism as backdrop•Studies on specific issues•Cultures not bound•Return non-fieldwork?•Include any music
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
•First year, Kingsbury for Music People•Ethnography of WAM people
▫Methodology▫“Boundable entities”▫Impostor Syndrome
•Career▫Ethnomusicology?
Issues
•Peace▫Musical activism▫Barenboim-Said West-Eastern Divan
Workshop and Orchestra•Anecdote on “music“
Fieldwork
•“We're the savages, now?”•“I don't want to be studied”•Observing Rehearsals•Verbalizing music (TAMILDAA)
Conservatories
•Music school as village in itself•“Tribe”•Personal relationships•Community, communitas•Hierarchies•Insider/outsider•“Get with the program”
Talent
•Technique vs. musicality•"Innate/gift“•Expertise•Not cognitive ability (Philip Ross in
SciAm, other references)•Practise•Objective evaluation
Learning
•Notation•Repertoire•Playing•Oral transmission•Music school•Samba school
WAM
•Pure music▫Music itself▫ Intra-musical (Buffoons)
•Sophistication•Social class•Music training•Music appreciation•Qc WAM on TQc•Job as musician
Music Specialists
•Religious parallels•Time spent•Status•Music-thinking•Creativity•Individualism
Musicking
•Participation•Dilettante, Amateur•Garage Band•Musical instruments•Player piano•Electric guitar sales•Sandbox
▫Playfulness▫Freedom
Euro-American Conceptions of Musicians•Hedonism•Money•Purity•Specialisation•Performance
Stereotypical portrait of WAM musician•Pro•Geek•Nerd•Brainy•Bourgeois•Reactionary•Effeminate•Asexual•Technically proficient•Can generate emotions
Rockstar
•Heavily sexualized•Anti-intellectual•Emotional•Virile•Rebel•Working class•Deviant
Other Actors
•Promoters•Venue owners•Managers•VJs•Music critics
Playlist• Ste No. 1- I: Prelude (BVW 1007), J.S. Bach Mstislav
Rostropovich• Sequenza III (per voce solo) (Luciano Berio), Cathy
Berberian• 1ère Gnossienne, Erik Satie, Daniel Varsano• 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, Saxophne Quartet• Concertino da camera - Allegro con molto, John Harle &
Academy of St Martin in the Fields/Marriner• Quatuor- IV. Variation II, Quatuor Alexandre• Saxoctet : 3e mvt, José Évangélista• Manu militari, Louis Dufort• The Unknown Pedestrian, Alexandre Burton