weaving songs around far oceaning
while on the boats or at home, those connected with the far ocean trade weaved songs about their experiences. on the one hand, many of these songs made it into Continue Reading →
Tag: “musical variability”
preservation and transmission: a participatory approach
Overall, my question was “what if the musical practices that we encounter and that we want to transmit cannot fit neatly into presentational forms or recordings?” Then we need to have a much different set of methods than those borrowed from typical musical education (aimed at presentation), stage performance, and recording (yes, even ethnomusicological field recording). Figuring out what those methods might be was the topic of the conversation I wanted to have with my colleagues at NTTU Continue Reading →
a question of diffusion
I know, diffusion is about the least interesting topic to most anthropologists or ethnomusicologists these days, but questions about the distribution of musical forms might tell us something about how groups form and maintain themselves through time
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