anth398d/2a meeting 5 (draft)

ANTH398D - EthnomusicologyMeeting 5 – ConservativeOctober 2, 2007

Presentations

•Past▫David Huron▫Journée d’études québécoises en musique

•Future▫Pop & Policy▫Éthique, droit et musique (Oct. 18-21,

register by Oct. 5)

Kingsbury Themes

•Critical Thinking•Making Links•List, switch, then back

Ethnomusicology as DisciplineMusical Ethnography

Ethnographic disciplines

•Cultural Anthropology•Linguistic Anthropology•Folkloristics•Ethnomusicology•Ethnohistory

Musical Ethnography

•Defining ethnomusicology through ethnography

•“Classic" ethnomusicology•Clear academic Other (musicologists)•Fieldwork on Music

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

Participation and Performance

•Mantle Hood•Bi-musicality•Aesthetics•Dialogue•Competence

Defining Ethnomusicology

•Historical parallels with anthro•Traditional, oral, ethnic

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

“World Music”

•Music industry•Appropriation•Empress of Russia

Kingsbury

•First year, Kingsbury for Music People•Ethnography of WAM people

▫Methodology▫“Boundable entities”▫Impostor Syndrome

•Career▫Ethnomusicology?

Issues

•Peace▫Musical activism▫Barenboim-Said West-Eastern Divan

Workshop and Orchestra•Anecdote on “music“

Fieldwork

•“We're the savages, now?”•“I don't want to be studied”•Observing Rehearsals•Verbalizing music (TAMILDAA)

Conservatories

•Music school as village in itself•“Tribe”•Personal relationships•Community, communitas•Hierarchies•Insider/outsider•“Get with the program”

Talent

•Technique vs. musicality•"Innate/gift“•Expertise•Not cognitive ability (Philip Ross in

SciAm, other references)•Practise•Objective evaluation

Learning

•Notation•Repertoire•Playing•Oral transmission•Music school•Samba school

WAM

•Pure music▫Music itself▫ Intra-musical (Buffoons)

•Sophistication•Social class•Music training•Music appreciation•Qc WAM on TQc•Job as musician

Music Specialists

•Religious parallels•Time spent•Status•Music-thinking•Creativity•Individualism

Musicking

•Participation•Dilettante, Amateur•Garage Band•Musical instruments•Player piano•Electric guitar sales•Sandbox

▫Playfulness▫Freedom

Euro-American Conceptions of Musicians•Hedonism•Money•Purity•Specialisation•Performance

Stereotypical portrait of WAM musician•Pro•Geek•Nerd•Brainy•Bourgeois•Reactionary•Effeminate•Asexual•Technically proficient•Can generate emotions

Rockstar

•Heavily sexualized•Anti-intellectual•Emotional•Virile•Rebel•Working class•Deviant

Other Actors

•Promoters•Venue owners•Managers•VJs•Music critics

Playlist• Ste No. 1- I: Prelude (BVW 1007), J.S. Bach Mstislav

Rostropovich• Sequenza III (per voce solo) (Luciano Berio), Cathy

Berberian• 1ère Gnossienne, Erik Satie, Daniel Varsano• Sonatine bureaucratique, Erik Satie, Daniel Varsano• My Bonny Lass She Smelleth, PDQ Bach• The Planets: Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity, Gustav Holst• Contrapunctus 9, Canadian Brass• Contrapunctus 9, Saxophne Quartet• Concertino da camera - Allegro con molto, John Harle &

Academy of St Martin in the Fields/Marriner• Quatuor- IV. Variation II, Quatuor Alexandre• Saxoctet : 3e mvt, José Évangélista• Manu militari, Louis Dufort• The Unknown Pedestrian, Alexandre Burton