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The role of musical pitch in long-distance defensive signaling. [PDF]

open access: yesAnn N Y Acad Sci
The function of pitch matching between hominins as a means of long‐distance deterrence of conspecifics is proposed. The evolution of different abilities related to pitch production and recognition is discussed. In particular, the emergence and role of culturally variable musical pitch elements as hallmarks of group identity are examined, in the context
Podlipniak P.
europepmc   +2 more sources

Some Thoughts about Professional Fields of Ethnomusicologists in Museums

open access: yesAsian-European Music Research Journal, 2020
This is a short essay introducing some thoughts the professional fields of ethnomusicologists working within an ethnographic museum. It is of utmost importance to consider the growing responsibility of any kind of musicologists in the context of a wider ...
Lewy, Matthias
doaj   +1 more source

Popular Music Studies and Ethnomusicology in Australasia [PDF]

open access: yesIASPM Journal, 2013
A characteristic of the field of popular music studies in Australia and New Zealand (Australasia) is the strong and enduring presence of ethnomusicology and allied ethnographic approaches to popular music research in this region.
Dan Bendrups
doaj   +1 more source

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

Music Therapy and Medical Ethnomusicology: Distinctive and Connected

open access: yesVoices, 2015
A music therapist and an ethnomusicologist who is also qualified as a music therapist explore some of the ways in which music therapy and medical ethnomusicology might engage a dialogue that is helpful to expanding thinking and practice in both fields ...
Jane Edwards, Oonagh MacMahon
doaj   +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

Laurent Aubert. 2007. The Music of The Other: New Challenges for Ethnomusicology in a Global Age. Foreword by Anthony Seeger. Translated by Carla Ribeiro. Burlington, VT, and Aldershot, UK: Ashgate Publishing.

open access: yesCurrent Musicology, 2009
I first read this book when it came out in French in 2001. Back then I used to think that a progressive expansion of the musical horizon of any individual or society could only be considered positive among ethnomusicologists.
Marcello Sorce Keller
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