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Coronavirus: lessons from Xinjiang. [PDF]

open access: yesSoc Anthropol, 2020
Social Anthropology, Volume 28, Issue 2, Page 320-322, May 2020.
McMurray J.
europepmc   +2 more sources

Cross-cultural convergence of musical features [PDF]

open access: yesProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2015
Sandra E Trehub
exaly   +2 more sources

Recurrence Quantification Analysis of Crowd Sound Dynamics

open access: yesCognitive Science, Volume 47, Issue 10, October 2023., 2023
Abstract When multiple individuals interact in a conversation or as part of a large crowd, emergent structures and dynamics arise that are behavioral properties of the interacting group rather than of any individual member of that group. Recent work using traditional signal processing techniques and machine learning has demonstrated that global ...
Shannon Proksch   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Valuing the Surplus: Perspectives on Julian Horton's Article ‘On the Musicological Necessity of Music Analysis’, Musical Quarterly, 3/i–ii, pp. 62–104.Contributors: Kofi Agawu, Gurminder K. Bhogal, Esther Cavett, Jonathan Dunsby, Julian Horton, Alexandra Monchick, Ian Pace, Henry Stobart and Simon Zagorski‐Thomas, compiled and edited by Esther Cavett

open access: yesMusic Analysis, Volume 42, Issue 3, Page 412-471, October 2023., 2023
ABSTRACT Julian Horton's 2020 article on the ‘necessity of analysis’ delineates previous critiques of music analysis into the performative and the historicist and counters their assumptions. He proposes that analysis remains viable in light of historical, ontological, systemic, discursive, phenomenological and political imperatives.
Kofi Agawu   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Resocializing recordings: Collaborative archiving and curating of sound as an agent of knowledge transfer

open access: yesThe Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, Volume 28, Issue 3, Page 193-205, September 2023., 2023
Abstract The authors discuss their methodologies for creating and relistening to recordings in collaboration with Indigenous People in Peru and Venezuela and contextualize them within the discourse about overcoming power structures that shape divides between the Global North and South, in both urban and rural trajectories, and in Western and Indigenous
Matthias Lewy, Bernd Brabec
wiley   +1 more source

Editors’ introduction to Sound “Repatriation” in South America: The Politics of Collaborative Archive Reactivations

open access: yesThe Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, Volume 28, Issue 3, Page 185-192, September 2023., 2023
Abstract The introduction first gives insights into the state of the art of sound “repatriation” concerning the way historical and current recordings of verbal arts, music, and dance are brought back into circulation in originating communities. Sound restitution also seeks to level the epistemological divide resulting from conventional archiving.
Ingrid Kummels, Gisela Cánepa
wiley   +1 more source

Experiences of Listening to Icaros during Ayahuasca Ceremonies at Centro Takiwasi: An Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis

open access: yesAnthropology of Consciousness, Volume 34, Issue 1, Page 35-67, Spring 2023., 2023
Abstract Research on psychedelic‐assisted psychotherapy has shown that music affects therapeutic outcomes at a fundamental level. The development of such therapies calls for research on the use of music with consciousness‐altering substances, especially in contexts informed by their traditional use. Informed by ethnographic reports, our project answers
Owain J. Graham   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Meaning or presence? Ways of knowing of the Sámi yoik

open access: yesAmerican Anthropologist, Volume 124, Issue 4, Page 855-865, December 2022., 2022
Abstract This article approaches an Indigenous singing tradition, the yoik, practiced by the Sámi people in the north of Europe, as a way of knowing the environment through presence rather than meaning. The yoik consists of short unaccompanied melodies, often without lyrics, sung in everyday life, associated with a specific being (typically a person ...
Stéphane Aubinet
wiley   +1 more source

Still an Ethnomusicologist (for Now) [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Musicology, 2020
This response defends ethnomusicology against Amico’s call for its end, even as the “ethno-” prefix has already become optional in certain contexts. Addressing Amico’s critiques of gender, repertoire, method, and colonialism, the response argues that ethnomusicologists are thinking creatively about the same set of issues raised by Amico and rejects the
openaire   +2 more sources

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