Becoming A Garamut Player In Baluan Papua New Guinea

Author : Tony Lewis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2018-04-19
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781315406480

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Becoming a Garamut Player in Baluan, Papua New Guinea by Tony Lewis Pdf

The garamut is a log idiophone that is found in many of the coastal and island areas of Papua New Guinea. The instrument’s primary use is as a speech surrogate and in some regions the garamut is also used in large ensembles to play complex music for dancing. In Baluan Island, within the Manus Province, this style of garamut playing is comparatively highly developed. This book follows the author’s processes and methods in learning to play the music of the garamut, to the level at which he became accepted as a garamut player by the people of Baluan. Lewis argues that analysis is essential in learning to play the rapid tempi and complex rhythms of Baluan garamut music, in a cultural context where there is no formal teaching process for the music. The transcription and analysis of the Baluan garamut repertoire is the centrepiece of this study, reflecting the cognitive structures of the learning process, and revealing the inner workings of the music’s complexity as well as a striking beauty of form and structure. The book concludes with reflections on the process of a ‘cultural outsider’ becoming a garamut player in Baluan and on the role of musical analysis in that process, on the ethnomusicologist’s role in transmission of the music, and on the nature of continuity and change in a musical society such as Baluan.

Author : Jeannette Mageo,Bruce Knauft
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2021-04-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781800730557

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Authenticity and Authorship in Pacific Island Encounters by Jeannette Mageo,Bruce Knauft Pdf

The insular Pacific is a region saturated with great cultural diversity and poignant memories of colonial and Christian intrusion. Considering authenticity and authorship in the area, this book looks at how these ideas have manifested themselves in Pacific peoples and cultures. Through six rich complementary case studies, a theoretical introduction, and a critical afterword, this volume explores authenticity and authorship as “traveling concepts.” The book reveals diverse and surprising outcomes which shed light on how Pacific identity has changed from the past to the present.

Author : David Lipset,Eric K. Silverman
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2023-05-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000840216

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Knots by David Lipset,Eric K. Silverman Pdf

Knots are well known as symbols of moral relationships. This book develops an exciting new view of this otherwise taken-for-granted image and considers their metaphoric value in and for moral order. In chapters that focus on Japan, China, Europe, South America and in several Pacific Island societies, granular ethnography depicts how knots are deployed to express unity in daily and ritual embodiment, political authority and the cosmos, as well as in social thought. The volume will be of interest to anthropologists and other scholars concerned with metaphor and symbolism, material culture and technology.

Author : Kerstin Klenke
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-06
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781351046411

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The Sound State of Uzbekistan by Kerstin Klenke Pdf

The Sound State of Uzbekistan: Popular Music and Politics in the Karimov Era is a pioneering study of the intersection between popular music and state politics in Central Asia. Based on 20 months of fieldwork and archival research in Tashkent, this book explores a remarkable era in Uzbekistan’s politics (2001–2016), when the Uzbek government promoted a rather unlikely candidate to the prominent position of state sound: estrada, a genre of popular music and a musical relic of socialism. The political importance it attached to estrada was matched by the establishment of an elaborate bureaucratic apparatus for state oversight. The Sound State of Uzbekistan shows the continuing legacy of Soviet concepts to frame the nexus between music, artists and the state, and explains the extraordinary potency ascribed to estrada. At the same time, it challenges classical readings of transition and also questions common binary models for researching culture in totalitarian or authoritarian states. Proposing to approach lives in music under authoritarianism as a form of normality instead, the author promotes a post-Cold War paradigm in music studies.

Author : Bonnie B. McConnell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-06
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781000712063

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Music, Health, and Power by Bonnie B. McConnell Pdf

Music, Health, and Power offers an original, on-the-ground analysis of the role that music plays in promoting healthy communities. The book brings the reader inside the world of kanyeleng fertility societies and HIV/AIDS support groups, where women use music to leverage stigma and marginality into new forms of power. Drawing on ethnographic research conducted over a period of 13 years (2006–2019), the author articulates a strengths-based framework for research on music and health that pushes beyond deficit narratives to emphasize the creativity and resilience of Gambian performers in responding to health disparities. Examples from Ebola prevention programs, the former President’s AIDS “cure,” and a legendary underwear theft demonstrate the high stakes of women’s performances as they are caught up in broader contestations over political and medical authority. This book will be of interest to scholars and students of ethnomusicology, medical anthropology, and African studies. The accompanying audio examples provide access to the women’s performances discussed in the text.

Author : Barley Norton,Naomi Matsumoto
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2018-07-20
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781315393841

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Music as Heritage by Barley Norton,Naomi Matsumoto Pdf

As economic, technological and cultural change gathers pace across the world, issues of music heritage and sustainability have become ever more pressing. Discourse on intangible cultural heritage has developed in complex ways in recent years, and musical practices have been transformed by safeguarding agendas. Music as Heritage takes stock of these transformations, bringing new ethnographic and historical perspectives to bear on our encounters with music heritage. The volume evaluates the cultural politics, ethics and audiovisual representation of music heritage; the methods and consequences of music transmission across national borders; and the perennial issues of revival, change and innovation. UNESCO’s 2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage provides an essential reference point for studies of music heritage. However, this volume also pays attention to important spheres of musical activity that lie outside of UNESCO’s reach and the reasons why some repertories of music are chosen for safeguarding while others are not. Some practices of art music in Europe explored in this book, for example, have received little attention despite being susceptible to endangerment. Developing a comparative framework that cuts across genre distinctions and disciplinary boundaries, Music as Heritage explores how music cultures are being affected by heritage discourse and the impact of international and national policies on grass-roots music practices.

Author : Bob Van Der Linden
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2018-07-27
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781351356909

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Arnold Bake by Bob Van Der Linden Pdf

Arnold Bake (1899–1963) was a Dutch pioneer in South Asian ethnomusicology, whose research impressed not only the most renowned Indologists of his time but also the leading figures in the emerging field of ethnomusicology. This long overdue biography sheds light on his knowledge of the theory and practice of South Asian music, as well as his legacy on the intellectual history of ethnomusicology. Bake spent nearly seventeen years in the Indian subcontinent and made numerous, irreplaceable recordings, films and photographs of local musicians and dancers. As a gifted Western musician, he studied Indian singing with Bhimrao Shastri, Dinendranath Tagore and Nabadwip Brajabashi, and successfully performed Rabindranath Tagore’s compositions and South Asian folk songs during hundreds of lecture-recitals in India, Europe and the United States. For the last fifteen years of his life, Bake taught Indian music at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London; he was the first to do so at a Western university. Besides his numerous writings and radio presentations, he advanced his subject through his activities in British and international research associations. The history of ethnomusicology, especially as applied to South Asia, cannot be fully understood without regard to Bake, and yet his contribution has remained, until now, unclear and unknown.

Author : Owen Wright
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-25
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781351665865

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Music Theory in the Safavid Era by Owen Wright Pdf

The Safavid era (1501–1722) is one of the most important in the history of Persian culture, celebrated especially for its architecture and art, including miniature paintings that frequently represent singers and instrumentalists. Their presence reflects a sophisticated tradition of music making that was an integral part of court life, yet it is one that remains little known, for the musicological literature of the period is rather thin. There is, however, a significant exception: the text presented and analysed here, a hitherto unpublished and anonymous theoretical work probably of the middle of the sixteenth century. With a Sufi background inspiring the use of the nay as a tool of theoretical demonstration, it is exceptional in presenting descriptive accounts of the modes then in use and suggesting how these might be arranged in complex sequences. As it also gives an account of the corpus of rhythmic cycles it provides a unique insight into the basic structures of art-music during the first century of Safavid rule.

Author : Reinhard Strohm
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2018-04-09
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781351672740

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Studies on a Global History of Music by Reinhard Strohm Pdf

The idea of a global history of music may be traced back to the Enlightenment, and today, the question of a conceptual framework for a history of music that pays due attention to global relationships in music is often raised. But how might a historical interpretation of those relationships proceed? How should it position, or justify, itself? What would 'Western music' look like in an account of music history that aspires to be truly global? The studies presented in this volume aim to promote post-European historical thinking. They are based on the idea that a global history of music cannot be one single, hegemonic history. They rather explore the paradigms and terminologies that might describe a history of many different voices. The chapters address historical practices and interpretations of music in different parts of the world, from Japan to Argentina and from Mexico to India. Many of these narratives are about relations between these cultures and the Western tradition; several also consider socio-political and historical circumstances that have affected music in the various regions. The book addresses aspects that Western musical historiography has tended to neglect even when looking at its own culture: performance, dance, nostalgia, topicality, enlightenment, the relationships between traditional, classical, and pop musics, and the regards croisés between European, Asian, or Latin American interpretations of each other’s musical traditions. These studies have been derived from the Balzan Musicology Project Towards a Global History of Music (2013–2016), which was funded by the International Balzan Foundation through the award of the Balzan Prize in Musicology to the editor, and designed by music historians and ethnomusicologists together. A global history of music may never be written in its entirety, but will rather be realised through interaction, practice, and discussion, in all parts of the world.

Author : Garland Encyclopedia of World Music
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 785 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2013-01-11
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781136095627

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The Concise Garland Encyclopedia of World Music by Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Pdf

The Concise Garland Encyclopedia of World Music comprises two volumes, and can only be purchased as the two-volume set.To purchase the set please go to: http://www.routledge.com/9780415972932.

Author : Klaus Neumann
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1992-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0824813332

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Not the Way It Really Was by Klaus Neumann Pdf

"One of the most innovative monographs in recent Pacific Islands studies." --Reviews in Anthropology

Author : Shelley Brunt,Geoff Stahl
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2018-05-20
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781317270478

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Made in Australia and Aotearoa/New Zealand by Shelley Brunt,Geoff Stahl Pdf

Made in Australia and Aotearoa/New Zealand: Studies in Popular Music serves as a comprehensive and thorough introduction to the history, sociology, and musicology of twentieth-century popular music of Australia and Aotearoa/New Zealand. The volume consists of chapters by leading scholars of Australian and Aotearoan/New Zealand music, and covers the major figures, styles, and social contexts of pop music in Australia and Aotearoa/New Zealand. Each chapter provides adequate context so readers understand why the figure or genre under discussion is of lasting significance to Australian or Aotearoan/New Zealand popular music. The book first presents a general description of the history and background of popular music in these countries, followed by chapters that are organized into thematic sections: Place-Making and Music-Making; Rethinking the Musical Event; Musical Transformations: Decline and Renewal; and Global Sounds, Local Identity.

Author : Thomas A. Sebeok,Donna Jean Umiker-Sebeok
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2012-06-21
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110804416

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Speech Surrogates. Part 1 by Thomas A. Sebeok,Donna Jean Umiker-Sebeok Pdf

Author : Rick Bonus
Publisher : Duke University Press Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2020-02-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1478006722

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The Ocean in the School by Rick Bonus Pdf

In The Ocean in the School Rick Bonus tells the stories of Pacific Islander students as they and their allies struggled to transform a university they believed did not value their presence. Drawing on dozens of interviews with students he taught, advised, and mentored between 2004 and 2018 at the University of Washington, Bonus outlines how, despite the university's promotion of diversity and student success programs, these students often did not find their education to be meaningful, leading some to leave the university. As these students note, they weren't failing school; the school was failing them. Bonus shows how students employed the ocean as a metaphor as a way to foster community and to transform the university into a space that valued meaningfulness, respect, and critical thinking. In sharing these students' insights and experiences, Bonus opens up questions about measuring student success, the centrality of antiracism and social justice to structurally reshaping universities, and the purpose of higher education.

Author : Richard Scaglion
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Customary law
ISBN : UCSD:31822002775070

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Customary Law in Papua New Guinea by Richard Scaglion Pdf