ANTH398D - Ethnomusicology

Meeting 4

September 25, 2007

Events

● FFEM.ca– Festival international du film ethnographique du

Québec– k.romanow@sympatico.ca

● POP Montreal Workshops● To post on Moodle● Come back on events● Guests during semester

– Pascal Bujold on embodied participation (October 9, 2007)

David Huron

● "Why Is the Minor Key Sad"● 13:30 at 1430 Mont-Royal● In Western music of the past four centuries the minor mode has

been variously associated with sadness, seriousness, anger, or fear.  An exception is found in Bulgarian folk music where the minor mode appears to have no such associations. The prevailing interpretation suggests that the relationship between major/happy and minor/sad is an arbitrary association that is maintained by cultural reinforcement. Drawing on research in ethology, evolutionary psychology, and cross-cultural experiments, I will suggest that the minor/sad relationship is not arbitrary -- despite it's obvious culture-specific limitation. The contrast between major and minor echoes general principles in speech prosody and emotional display.

Journée d’études québécoises en musique

● Saturday September 29, 9:00-19:00 Grande Bibliothèque M455– « Penser et écrire l’histoire de la

vie musicale au Québec, du début du XXe siècle à aujourd’hui »

– Quebec musical life

Jean Duval

● Se fondre ou se distinguer? La singularité chez les compositeurs de musique traditionnelle québécoise et celtique

● Tuesday, October 9, 12:30-14:00 at Faculty of Music, UdeM, A-873

Appropriation

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

Sleeping Lion

● Ladysmith Black Mambazo The Lion Sleeps Tonight 4:38

● Solomon Linda and Evening Birds Mbube2:45

● 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 Discussion

● Reflexive ethnography● Writing Culture (Clifford and Marcus 1986)● Fieldwork/armchair● Bias/accuracy● Notes and Queries on Anthropology● Colonialism● Insider/Outsider● Ethnobotany

Cooley Reactions

● Format● Writing style● Endnotes● Terminological bent● History of discipline

Dialogue

● Interactive● Anthony Seeger singing● Neurotic anthropologists

– PC Terminology– Paralysis

● The Field as separation● Observing and responsibility● Fieldnotes

Follow

● Etic/Emic● Positivism● Intellectual honesty● Briggs 1986 Learning How to Ask

Fieldworkers

● Stories from Montreal● Dressing Up for Part● Cegep Saint-Laurent