Trish Winter and Simon Keegan-Phipps
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- January 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780719097300
- eISBN:
- 9781781708699
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9780719097300.001.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Cultural Studies
Performing Englishness looks in detail at the growth in popularity and profile of the English folk arts in the first decade of the twenty-first century. Based on original research within English folk ...
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Performing Englishness looks in detail at the growth in popularity and profile of the English folk arts in the first decade of the twenty-first century. Based on original research within English folk culture, it is the only ethnographic study of its kind. By closely scrutinising various facets of this folk resurgence – discursive, musical and visual – the authors explore how it speaks to a broader explosion of interest in the subject of English national and cultural identity. How does contemporary English folk music and dance relate to ideas about England and Englishness? What kinds of English identities are expressed through the works of musicians like Seth Lakeman or Bellowhead? How does morris dancing contribute to ongoing political debates around multiculturalism, globalisation, and the devolution of the British nations? And how does the English folk scene reconcile a new-found commercial success with anti-capitalist roots? In their quest for answers to these and other questions, the authors combine the approaches of British cultural studies and ethnomusicology, drawing on ethnographic fieldwork, interviews with central figures of the resurgence and close analysis of key musical and dance texts. Their presentation of the English case contributes to debates about English identity and calls for a rethinking of concepts such as revival, indigeneity and tradition.Less
Performing Englishness looks in detail at the growth in popularity and profile of the English folk arts in the first decade of the twenty-first century. Based on original research within English folk culture, it is the only ethnographic study of its kind. By closely scrutinising various facets of this folk resurgence – discursive, musical and visual – the authors explore how it speaks to a broader explosion of interest in the subject of English national and cultural identity. How does contemporary English folk music and dance relate to ideas about England and Englishness? What kinds of English identities are expressed through the works of musicians like Seth Lakeman or Bellowhead? How does morris dancing contribute to ongoing political debates around multiculturalism, globalisation, and the devolution of the British nations? And how does the English folk scene reconcile a new-found commercial success with anti-capitalist roots? In their quest for answers to these and other questions, the authors combine the approaches of British cultural studies and ethnomusicology, drawing on ethnographic fieldwork, interviews with central figures of the resurgence and close analysis of key musical and dance texts. Their presentation of the English case contributes to debates about English identity and calls for a rethinking of concepts such as revival, indigeneity and tradition.
Johann Gottfried Herder and Philip V. Bohlman
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- September 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780520234949
- eISBN:
- 9780520966444
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520234949.001.0001
- Subject:
- Music, Ethnomusicology, World Music
Had Johann Gottfried Herder (1744–1803) written a book on music, it would have been Song Loves the Masses. One of the great polymaths of modern intellectual history, Herder wrote influential ...
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Had Johann Gottfried Herder (1744–1803) written a book on music, it would have been Song Loves the Masses. One of the great polymaths of modern intellectual history, Herder wrote influential contributions to philosophy, theology, anthropology, aesthetics, history—and music. His writings on musical subjects are among his most comprehensive, ranging from studies of music in the origins of human speech to the song practices underlying a universal humanity. Herder’s collections of these practices, to which he referred collectively as “folk songs” sounded world music in its complex diversity and provided the modern foundations for the fields of anthropology, folklore, and ethnomusicology. Many of the folk songs themselves entered the classical music of Europe, significantly transforming its aesthetics and history. The first-ever translations of Herder’s nine most sweeping works on music unfold across the chapters of this book. From the first attempts to forge theories of folk song and publish anthologies in the 1770s through the translations of the Spanish epic, El Cid, and the biblical Song of Songs to the aesthetics of transcendence that imbued his final essays, the chapters in Song Loves the Masses together transform our modern understanding of music and history.Less
Had Johann Gottfried Herder (1744–1803) written a book on music, it would have been Song Loves the Masses. One of the great polymaths of modern intellectual history, Herder wrote influential contributions to philosophy, theology, anthropology, aesthetics, history—and music. His writings on musical subjects are among his most comprehensive, ranging from studies of music in the origins of human speech to the song practices underlying a universal humanity. Herder’s collections of these practices, to which he referred collectively as “folk songs” sounded world music in its complex diversity and provided the modern foundations for the fields of anthropology, folklore, and ethnomusicology. Many of the folk songs themselves entered the classical music of Europe, significantly transforming its aesthetics and history. The first-ever translations of Herder’s nine most sweeping works on music unfold across the chapters of this book. From the first attempts to forge theories of folk song and publish anthologies in the 1770s through the translations of the Spanish epic, El Cid, and the biblical Song of Songs to the aesthetics of transcendence that imbued his final essays, the chapters in Song Loves the Masses together transform our modern understanding of music and history.
Ryan Thomas Skinner
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- January 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780816693498
- eISBN:
- 9781452950808
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816693498.001.0001
- Subject:
- Music, Ethnomusicology, World Music
Bamako Sounds tells the story of an African city, its people, their values, and their music. Centered on the music and musicians of Bamako, Mali’s booming capital city, this book reveals a community ...
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Bamako Sounds tells the story of an African city, its people, their values, and their music. Centered on the music and musicians of Bamako, Mali’s booming capital city, this book reveals a community of artists whose lives and works evince a complex world shaped by urban culture, postcolonialism, musical expression, religious identity, and intellectual property. Drawing on years of ethnographic research with classically trained players of the kora (a twenty-one-string West African harp) as well as more contemporary, hip-hop influenced musicians and producers, Ryan Thomas Skinner analyzes how Bamako artists balance social imperatives with personal interests and global imaginations. Whether performed live on stage, broadcast on the radio, or shared over the Internet, music is a privileged mode of expression that suffuses Bamako’s urban soundscape. It animates professional projects, communicates cultural values, pronounces public piety, resounds in the marketplace, and quite literally performs the nation. Music, the artists who make it, and the audiences who interpret it thus represent a crucial means of articulating and disseminating the ethics and aesthetics of a varied and vital Afropolitanism, in Bamako and beyond.Less
Bamako Sounds tells the story of an African city, its people, their values, and their music. Centered on the music and musicians of Bamako, Mali’s booming capital city, this book reveals a community of artists whose lives and works evince a complex world shaped by urban culture, postcolonialism, musical expression, religious identity, and intellectual property. Drawing on years of ethnographic research with classically trained players of the kora (a twenty-one-string West African harp) as well as more contemporary, hip-hop influenced musicians and producers, Ryan Thomas Skinner analyzes how Bamako artists balance social imperatives with personal interests and global imaginations. Whether performed live on stage, broadcast on the radio, or shared over the Internet, music is a privileged mode of expression that suffuses Bamako’s urban soundscape. It animates professional projects, communicates cultural values, pronounces public piety, resounds in the marketplace, and quite literally performs the nation. Music, the artists who make it, and the audiences who interpret it thus represent a crucial means of articulating and disseminating the ethics and aesthetics of a varied and vital Afropolitanism, in Bamako and beyond.
Denis Crowdy
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- November 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780824851569
- eISBN:
- 9780824868307
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Hawai'i Press
- DOI:
- 10.21313/hawaii/9780824851569.001.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Pacific Studies
What can we learn about postcolonial history, culture, people, and processes of change in analyzing differences between how people imagined their nation might sound, and how it actually came to ...
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What can we learn about postcolonial history, culture, people, and processes of change in analyzing differences between how people imagined their nation might sound, and how it actually came to sound? The music and activity of a band in the largest nation in Melanesia, Papua New Guinea is explored; a band called Sanguma. Sanguma heard an imagined future and performed it during a critical time socially and politically for the region. This is a kind of hearing akin to the forward looking definition of “vision”—a hearing of the future. This book explores complex, international, cosmopolitan experiences in the circa-Independence environment in Papua New Guinea and draws on ideas expressed by a number of Melanesian intellectuals who were central in recognizing, raising, and nurturing Melanesian values and institutions towards a new era of independence. Hearing the Future contributes to social theory exploring the role of music in articulating identity, social concerns, political concerns, in a rapidly changing environment as people navigated a move from living in a colony of Australia to forging an independent nation in the late twentieth century.Less
What can we learn about postcolonial history, culture, people, and processes of change in analyzing differences between how people imagined their nation might sound, and how it actually came to sound? The music and activity of a band in the largest nation in Melanesia, Papua New Guinea is explored; a band called Sanguma. Sanguma heard an imagined future and performed it during a critical time socially and politically for the region. This is a kind of hearing akin to the forward looking definition of “vision”—a hearing of the future. This book explores complex, international, cosmopolitan experiences in the circa-Independence environment in Papua New Guinea and draws on ideas expressed by a number of Melanesian intellectuals who were central in recognizing, raising, and nurturing Melanesian values and institutions towards a new era of independence. Hearing the Future contributes to social theory exploring the role of music in articulating identity, social concerns, political concerns, in a rapidly changing environment as people navigated a move from living in a colony of Australia to forging an independent nation in the late twentieth century.
Kristina M. Jacobsen
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- September 2017
- ISBN:
- 9781469631868
- eISBN:
- 9781469631882
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469631868.003.0006
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Native American Studies
The conclusion reflects on how a politics of difference and belonging—and the idea of indigenous social authenticity more broadly—is negotiated by Diné citizens. Focusing on the language fluency ...
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The conclusion reflects on how a politics of difference and belonging—and the idea of indigenous social authenticity more broadly—is negotiated by Diné citizens. Focusing on the language fluency controversy in the most recent Navajo Presidential election with Presidential Candidate Christopher C. Deschene, I address what the stakes might be in reifying social difference through the lenses of linguistic knowledge and performance, place of residence, musical taste, and phenotype. I then examine language use and vitality in Navajo language immersion schools on the Navajo Nation. Bringing together ethnomusicology, linguistic anthropology and Critical Indigenous Studies, I examine the parts of Navajo identity that are either publicly celebrated or hidden from view, and I interrogate what these categories of difference mean for those that utilize—or refuse them—today.Less
The conclusion reflects on how a politics of difference and belonging—and the idea of indigenous social authenticity more broadly—is negotiated by Diné citizens. Focusing on the language fluency controversy in the most recent Navajo Presidential election with Presidential Candidate Christopher C. Deschene, I address what the stakes might be in reifying social difference through the lenses of linguistic knowledge and performance, place of residence, musical taste, and phenotype. I then examine language use and vitality in Navajo language immersion schools on the Navajo Nation. Bringing together ethnomusicology, linguistic anthropology and Critical Indigenous Studies, I examine the parts of Navajo identity that are either publicly celebrated or hidden from view, and I interrogate what these categories of difference mean for those that utilize—or refuse them—today.
Trish Winter and Simon Keegan-Phipps
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- January 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780719097300
- eISBN:
- 9781781708699
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9780719097300.003.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Cultural Studies
Chapter 1 introduces the main themes of book, the scholarly contexts within which the research is situated, and the methods by which the research for the book was conducted. It begins by giving a ...
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Chapter 1 introduces the main themes of book, the scholarly contexts within which the research is situated, and the methods by which the research for the book was conducted. It begins by giving a brief overview of existing approaches to the study of the English folk arts (e.g. socio-historical, folkloristic) before defining the book’s key terms (folk; resurgence; and performing Englishness). The chapter goes on to explain the methods and scope of the ethnographic research on which the book has been based. It then gives a broad overview of the English folk scene, itemising the key performance contexts of music and dance. The chapter ends with a short synopsis of the book’s remaining content and structure.Less
Chapter 1 introduces the main themes of book, the scholarly contexts within which the research is situated, and the methods by which the research for the book was conducted. It begins by giving a brief overview of existing approaches to the study of the English folk arts (e.g. socio-historical, folkloristic) before defining the book’s key terms (folk; resurgence; and performing Englishness). The chapter goes on to explain the methods and scope of the ethnographic research on which the book has been based. It then gives a broad overview of the English folk scene, itemising the key performance contexts of music and dance. The chapter ends with a short synopsis of the book’s remaining content and structure.
Trish Winter and Simon Keegan-Phipps
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- January 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780719097300
- eISBN:
- 9781781708699
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9780719097300.003.0003
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Cultural Studies
This chapter focuses on the creative outputs of the contemporary English folk resurgence, looking at folk artists’ growing engagements with the cultural mainstream and examining the wide variety of ...
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This chapter focuses on the creative outputs of the contemporary English folk resurgence, looking at folk artists’ growing engagements with the cultural mainstream and examining the wide variety of ways in which English folk music and dance is thus being represented, redeveloped and reinvented. After discussing the idea of the ‘mainstream’, the chapter goes on to analyse four case studies which exhibit different kinds of engagements of English folk with popular music or dance (Seth Lakeman; Jim Moray; the English ceilidh dance scene; and the Demon Barber Roadshow). It also examines the referencing of historical popular culture (e.g. Jim Moray; Bellowhead), and art-orientated folk music acts (e.g. Morris Offspring; English Acoustic Collective). The chapter concludes by arguing that the stylistic plurality illustrated by these examples is itself a semi-unifying theme of the contemporary English folk resurgence.Less
This chapter focuses on the creative outputs of the contemporary English folk resurgence, looking at folk artists’ growing engagements with the cultural mainstream and examining the wide variety of ways in which English folk music and dance is thus being represented, redeveloped and reinvented. After discussing the idea of the ‘mainstream’, the chapter goes on to analyse four case studies which exhibit different kinds of engagements of English folk with popular music or dance (Seth Lakeman; Jim Moray; the English ceilidh dance scene; and the Demon Barber Roadshow). It also examines the referencing of historical popular culture (e.g. Jim Moray; Bellowhead), and art-orientated folk music acts (e.g. Morris Offspring; English Acoustic Collective). The chapter concludes by arguing that the stylistic plurality illustrated by these examples is itself a semi-unifying theme of the contemporary English folk resurgence.
Joshua S. Walden
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- January 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780199334667
- eISBN:
- 9780199369409
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199334667.003.0006
- Subject:
- Music, History, Western
Chapter 6 focuses on the role of the rural miniature in the early period of Béla Bartók’s career. Bartók’s essays and letters about folk music, recording technology, and nationalism demonstrate his ...
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Chapter 6 focuses on the role of the rural miniature in the early period of Béla Bartók’s career. Bartók’s essays and letters about folk music, recording technology, and nationalism demonstrate his belief that the folk music of the countryside constituted the pure and simple expression of the Hungarian soul, and he promoted its study, transcription, and arrangement as art music. The chapter offers an extended analysis of Romanian Folk Dances, to view the relation between his ethnographic research and his composition of rural miniatures. It examines the wax cylinder recordings of the original source melodies, Bartók’s transcriptions in his anthologies, manuscript sketches of Romanian Folk Dances, and professional recordings by Zoltán Székely and Joseph Szigeti of the arrangement of the work for violin and piano.Less
Chapter 6 focuses on the role of the rural miniature in the early period of Béla Bartók’s career. Bartók’s essays and letters about folk music, recording technology, and nationalism demonstrate his belief that the folk music of the countryside constituted the pure and simple expression of the Hungarian soul, and he promoted its study, transcription, and arrangement as art music. The chapter offers an extended analysis of Romanian Folk Dances, to view the relation between his ethnographic research and his composition of rural miniatures. It examines the wax cylinder recordings of the original source melodies, Bartók’s transcriptions in his anthologies, manuscript sketches of Romanian Folk Dances, and professional recordings by Zoltán Székely and Joseph Szigeti of the arrangement of the work for violin and piano.
Paul Austerlitz and April J. Mayes
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- January 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781683400387
- eISBN:
- 9781683400653
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9781683400387.003.0012
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Latin American Studies
This chapter tells the story of roots music in Haiti and the Dominican Republic and also examines the shared traditions that unite music across Hispaniola. Paul Austerlitz uses ethnomusicology to ...
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This chapter tells the story of roots music in Haiti and the Dominican Republic and also examines the shared traditions that unite music across Hispaniola. Paul Austerlitz uses ethnomusicology to argue that music performance, dance (such as merengue), and ritual remain liberatory practices, connected to a history of spirituality and resistance that began in maroon communities during the island’s early history.Less
This chapter tells the story of roots music in Haiti and the Dominican Republic and also examines the shared traditions that unite music across Hispaniola. Paul Austerlitz uses ethnomusicology to argue that music performance, dance (such as merengue), and ritual remain liberatory practices, connected to a history of spirituality and resistance that began in maroon communities during the island’s early history.
Bonnie C. Wade
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- May 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780226085210
- eISBN:
- 9780226085494
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226085494.003.0001
- Subject:
- Music, Ethnomusicology, World Music
The Introduction distinguishes the modern Japanese composer from the performer-composer in the sphere of Japanese traditional music. The author situates herself in terms of experience and motivation ...
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The Introduction distinguishes the modern Japanese composer from the performer-composer in the sphere of Japanese traditional music. The author situates herself in terms of experience and motivation and the book in terms of ethnomusicology. The discussion of modernity in the book is framed and affordance theory established as the analytic.Less
The Introduction distinguishes the modern Japanese composer from the performer-composer in the sphere of Japanese traditional music. The author situates herself in terms of experience and motivation and the book in terms of ethnomusicology. The discussion of modernity in the book is framed and affordance theory established as the analytic.
Johann Gottfried Herder and Philip V. Bohlman
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- September 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780520234949
- eISBN:
- 9780520966444
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520234949.003.0020
- Subject:
- Music, Ethnomusicology, World Music
With a final contextualizing chapter, Philip V. Bohlman interprets Herder’s 1769 sea journey as a metaphor for the writings on music and nationalism, and for his sweeping influence on the history of ...
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With a final contextualizing chapter, Philip V. Bohlman interprets Herder’s 1769 sea journey as a metaphor for the writings on music and nationalism, and for his sweeping influence on the history of ideas that we attribute to modernity. Dramatically leaving his post as pastor and director of religious life for the German community of Riga, Herder embarked on a sea journey that would provide him with the new experiences that would shape his approaches to anthropology, education, philosophy, religion, the universal history of humanity, and music. The 1769 sea journey, captured in the notes of an extensive journal Herder never published, acted as an ethnomusicological epiphany that would establish the encounter with folk songs lying ahead as the foundations for understanding world music.Less
With a final contextualizing chapter, Philip V. Bohlman interprets Herder’s 1769 sea journey as a metaphor for the writings on music and nationalism, and for his sweeping influence on the history of ideas that we attribute to modernity. Dramatically leaving his post as pastor and director of religious life for the German community of Riga, Herder embarked on a sea journey that would provide him with the new experiences that would shape his approaches to anthropology, education, philosophy, religion, the universal history of humanity, and music. The 1769 sea journey, captured in the notes of an extensive journal Herder never published, acted as an ethnomusicological epiphany that would establish the encounter with folk songs lying ahead as the foundations for understanding world music.
Ryan Thomas Skinner
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- January 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780816693498
- eISBN:
- 9781452950808
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816693498.003.0001
- Subject:
- Music, Ethnomusicology, World Music
The Introduction presents theoretical perspectives on the concepts of “morality,” “ethics,” and “Afropolitanism.” This chapter elucidates the social positions and existential projects that exemplify ...
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The Introduction presents theoretical perspectives on the concepts of “morality,” “ethics,” and “Afropolitanism.” This chapter elucidates the social positions and existential projects that exemplify the book’s approach to ethico-moral personhood in Bamako’s Afropolitan music culture.Less
The Introduction presents theoretical perspectives on the concepts of “morality,” “ethics,” and “Afropolitanism.” This chapter elucidates the social positions and existential projects that exemplify the book’s approach to ethico-moral personhood in Bamako’s Afropolitan music culture.
Ryan Thomas Skinner
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- January 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780816693498
- eISBN:
- 9781452950808
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816693498.003.0002
- Subject:
- Music, Ethnomusicology, World Music
Chapter 1 (re)presents the city of Bamako, emphasizing representations of urban culture that portray, inscribe, and resound the moral and ethical production of space. Drawing on Mande social thought ...
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Chapter 1 (re)presents the city of Bamako, emphasizing representations of urban culture that portray, inscribe, and resound the moral and ethical production of space. Drawing on Mande social thought and a Lefebvrian account of social space, this chapter explores how Bamako residents experience and express the civility and wildness of everyday urbanity.Less
Chapter 1 (re)presents the city of Bamako, emphasizing representations of urban culture that portray, inscribe, and resound the moral and ethical production of space. Drawing on Mande social thought and a Lefebvrian account of social space, this chapter explores how Bamako residents experience and express the civility and wildness of everyday urbanity.
Ryan Thomas Skinner
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- January 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780816693498
- eISBN:
- 9781452950808
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816693498.003.0003
- Subject:
- Music, Ethnomusicology, World Music
Chapter 2 thickly describes the status and identity that is at the center of this study: the “artist” and its related social and professional mode of being, artistiya (artist-ness). It presents ...
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Chapter 2 thickly describes the status and identity that is at the center of this study: the “artist” and its related social and professional mode of being, artistiya (artist-ness). It presents extended reflection on what it means to be an artist in Mali in an era of postcolonial neoliberalism and globalization.Less
Chapter 2 thickly describes the status and identity that is at the center of this study: the “artist” and its related social and professional mode of being, artistiya (artist-ness). It presents extended reflection on what it means to be an artist in Mali in an era of postcolonial neoliberalism and globalization.
Ryan Thomas Skinner
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- January 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780816693498
- eISBN:
- 9781452950808
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816693498.003.0004
- Subject:
- Music, Ethnomusicology, World Music
Chapter 3 observes moral and ethical tensions of collective identity and individual subjectivity in musical performance and perception. It describes how a culturally modeled and locally salient ...
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Chapter 3 observes moral and ethical tensions of collective identity and individual subjectivity in musical performance and perception. It describes how a culturally modeled and locally salient musical aesthetics audibly signifies a dialectic social structure of collectively oriented morality and individually motivated ethics among artists and their audiences.Less
Chapter 3 observes moral and ethical tensions of collective identity and individual subjectivity in musical performance and perception. It describes how a culturally modeled and locally salient musical aesthetics audibly signifies a dialectic social structure of collectively oriented morality and individually motivated ethics among artists and their audiences.
Ryan Thomas Skinner
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- January 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780816693498
- eISBN:
- 9781452950808
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816693498.003.0005
- Subject:
- Music, Ethnomusicology, World Music
Chapter 4 examines the Islamic voice as a morally steeped and widely deployed discursive resource in Bamako popular music. It focuses on the inter-textual and inter-subjective references to Islamic ...
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Chapter 4 examines the Islamic voice as a morally steeped and widely deployed discursive resource in Bamako popular music. It focuses on the inter-textual and inter-subjective references to Islamic thought and practice in three distinct, though frequently overlapping genres of vocal performance: praise song, rap, and dance band lyricism.Less
Chapter 4 examines the Islamic voice as a morally steeped and widely deployed discursive resource in Bamako popular music. It focuses on the inter-textual and inter-subjective references to Islamic thought and practice in three distinct, though frequently overlapping genres of vocal performance: praise song, rap, and dance band lyricism.
Ryan Thomas Skinner
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- January 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780816693498
- eISBN:
- 9781452950808
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816693498.003.0006
- Subject:
- Music, Ethnomusicology, World Music
Chapter 5 interrogates the idea of intellectual property through the shifting politics of culture in postcolonial Mali. Beginning with widespread anxieties about the social and economic value of the ...
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Chapter 5 interrogates the idea of intellectual property through the shifting politics of culture in postcolonial Mali. Beginning with widespread anxieties about the social and economic value of the arts in an era of private markets and decentralized politics, it presents a local genealogy of music copyright and its criminalized corollary, piracy.Less
Chapter 5 interrogates the idea of intellectual property through the shifting politics of culture in postcolonial Mali. Beginning with widespread anxieties about the social and economic value of the arts in an era of private markets and decentralized politics, it presents a local genealogy of music copyright and its criminalized corollary, piracy.
Ryan Thomas Skinner
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- January 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780816693498
- eISBN:
- 9781452950808
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816693498.003.0007
- Subject:
- Music, Ethnomusicology, World Music
Chapter 6 considers what it means to make “Malian” music in times of national celebration and crisis. As a mode of being that continues to shape African futures, it examines how national affiliation ...
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Chapter 6 considers what it means to make “Malian” music in times of national celebration and crisis. As a mode of being that continues to shape African futures, it examines how national affiliation has been mobilized musically to promote (and contest) a variety of political agendas, global and local, elite and subaltern.Less
Chapter 6 considers what it means to make “Malian” music in times of national celebration and crisis. As a mode of being that continues to shape African futures, it examines how national affiliation has been mobilized musically to promote (and contest) a variety of political agendas, global and local, elite and subaltern.
Ryan Thomas Skinner
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- January 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780816693498
- eISBN:
- 9781452950808
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816693498.003.0008
- Subject:
- Music, Ethnomusicology, World Music
The Conclusion locates the foregoing study of Bamako’s musical art world within a broader conceptual framework, in which the Afropolitan ethics of a particular music culture may register meaningfully ...
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The Conclusion locates the foregoing study of Bamako’s musical art world within a broader conceptual framework, in which the Afropolitan ethics of a particular music culture may register meaningfully in other places, among other communities within an urban Africa at large.Less
The Conclusion locates the foregoing study of Bamako’s musical art world within a broader conceptual framework, in which the Afropolitan ethics of a particular music culture may register meaningfully in other places, among other communities within an urban Africa at large.
