ANTH398D - Ethnomusicology

Meeting 10 – AdaptiveNovember 6, 2007

Cross

• Careful/thoughtful• Refer to ethnomusicologists• Cultural insight• Nature/nurture

Conceiving Music

• Only that which corresponds to WAM understanding?

• Broader approach• Music integrating speech

Human Organisation of Sound

• Speech and music• Communication• Expression• Complexity

Anthropology

• Pinpointing human uniqueness• Anthropocentrism?• Human evolution and primatology• Closer to or further from other primates

Making Links

• Cognitive dimensions• Human uniqueness• Music participation

Music and Language

• Parallels with Feld et al.• Speech to song• Lerdahl and Jackendoff• “Auditory Cheesecake”

Cognitive science of music and language

• Music perception• Music acquisition• Skill Transfer

Musical Meaning

• Hanslick on intra-musical• «Querelle des bouffons»• Meyer on expectations• Precise meaning or ambiguity?• Wilson/Sperber Relevance– Ostensive-inferential– Grice’s maxims– Perceived universalism

Community

• Togetherness• Socialisation– Sessions (jam, traditional)

• Synchronising• Edward T. Hall’s Dance of Life• “Proto-Music”

Dance

• Movement• Rhythm• Repetition• Gestures• Patterns• Integration

“This Is Our Song”

• Nostalgia• Shared experience• “Social memory”• Demetan example• Contextual meaning