Ida Halpern: A Post-Colonial Portrait of a Canadian Pioneer Ethnomusicologist [PDF]
Canadian University Music Review, 2013 The work of Ida Halpern (1910–87), one of Canada's first musicologists and a pioneer ethnomusicologist, has been largely ignored. This essay illuminates her most important contribution to the musical development of this country: the documentation of Native musics.
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The process of musical translation : composing a Maltese festa band march from Libyan ma’luf music [PDF]
, 2013 Current studies in language translation call attention to the fact that “the translation product per se only constitutes a mere surface manifestation of an entire dynamic array of conscious and unconscious mental processes that occur during the act of ...
Ciantar, Philip
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Group singing is globally dominant and associated with social context. [PDF]
R Soc Open Sci, 2023 Shilton D, Passmore S, Savage PE.
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Weltmusik and the globalization of new music [PDF]
, 2009 The chapter investigates the impact of globalisation on new music on the basis of the concept of _Weltmusik_, introduced in Germany in the 1970s. Particular attention is paid to the nfluence of Marshall McLuhan on Karlheinz Stockhausen.
Heile, B.
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The (Co)Evolution of Language and Music Under Human Self-Domestication. [PDF]
Hum Nat, 2023 Benítez-Burraco A, Nikolsky A.
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Testing Tradition: Applied ethnomusicology for social development amongst Ga people in South-East Ghana [PDF]
, 2014 My research explored the role of ‘applied’ ethnomusicology in communication, culture and development whilst studying Ga people in urban Accra, south-east Ghana, and the dynamic role performance has played in the evolution of Ga society, taking account of
Marshall, Nola
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Music as aposematic signal: predator defense strategies in early human evolution. [PDF]
Front Psychol, 2023 Jordania J.
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Hungarian Ethnomusicologist Oszkár Dincsér (1911–1977) as a Pioneer of Musical Anthropology [PDF]
Studia Musicologica, 2018 There are marked differences between Hungarian and American ethnomusicology in incentives, aims, interests, and methods. Hungarian research was based in the early twentieth century on study of musical form, while the Americans approached music in terms of social context and functions.
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Writing Pop: Contemporary Approaches to Pop(ular) Music Studies [PDF]
, 2012 A review of Chris Rojek, Pop Music, Pop Culture (Polity, Cambridge, 2011) and Tara Brabazon, Popular Music: Topics, Trends & Trajectories (Sage, London, 2012)
Johnson, Henry
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Convergent evolution in a large cross-cultural database of musical scales. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2023 McBride JM, Passmore S, Tlusty T.
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