ANTH398D - Ethnomusicology

Meeting 4

September 25, 2007

Appropriation

● Critique and criticism● Follow on enthusiasm● Trends● Ethical/legal

Sleeping Lion

● Solomon Linda and Evening Birds Mbube2:45

● Ladysmith Black Mambazo The Lion Sleeps Tonight 4:38

● Yma Súmac Wimoweh 2:42● http://fridayfishwrap.com/?p=1108● http://www.3rdearmusic.com/forum/

mbube2.html

French Style

● Serge Gainsbourg New-York, USA 2:16● Babatunde Olatunji Akiwowo (Ah-Key-Woh-

Woh) 4:44

Cooley Reactions

● Format● Writing style● Endnotes● Terminological bent● History of discipline● Text situated in disciplinary history

Techniques and Methods

● Learning How To Ask● Sensory● Non-exotic field

Fieldworkers

● Dressing Up for Part● Listing fieldworkers● “Reviving” de Léry● Jean-Jacques Rousseau (Ranz des vaches)● Nicole Beaudry (at UQÀM, went w/ Jean-

Jacques Nattiez)● Jean During

PoMo

● Crisis representation● Reflexive, interpretive● Rejection positivism ● How-to vs. critical thinking● PoCo● Experiential ● Field as idea-locale

Musical Ethnography

● “Classic" ethnomusicology● Clear academic Other (musicologists)● Fieldwork On Music

Ethnographic disciplines

● Cultural Anthropology● Linguistic Anthropology● Folkloristics● Ethnomusicology● Ethnohistory● Defining ethnomusicology through ethnography

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

Exchange About Music?

● TAMILDAA● Talk about tastes● Communicate with people through music● Dance?● Shared experience, community of experience

(Gadamer, Wittgenstein, Eckert)

Participation and Performance

● Hood● Bi-musicality● Aesthetics● Dialogue● Competence

Defining Ethnomusicology

● Historical parallels with anthro– Often Lag

● Traditional, oral, ethnic● Performance● Genres● Dance● Ethnography

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

● Music industry● Appropriation● Empress of Russia● http://arts.guardian.co.uk/features/story/0,11710

,1249391,00.html

“World Music”