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This book is an output from a conference held in Stockholm in April 2019 that brought together researchers, primarily ethnomusicologists, from various countries in the Nordic region and beyond that have worked on music and migration in different Nordic ...
Thomas Solomon
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Sing safety: Understanding South Sudanese protection strategies through song
Abstract We advocate for ethnomusicology—the critical study of the dialogical relationship between music and the contexts that define it—as one of the research approaches that humanitarians and peacekeepers should use to better understand civilians' self‐protection strategies during conflict.
Sylvia A. N. Nannyonga‐Tamusuza +1 more
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The author first got acquainted with Tuvan music in 1991, at the 2nd International Congress of Jew’s Harp Music in Yakutia, Russia. Among other ethnomusical bands from Russia’s various regions and CIS states, the Tuvan band stood out with its special ...
Leo Tadagawa
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Abstract Ecotourism plays a vital role in both economic development and depending on the scale, it can also aid environmental conservation. Ecotourism planning often considers culture‐based and nature‐based tourism separately, failing to recognize the synergies between them, with the potential to market locations as biocultural destinations.
Alejandra Echeverri +17 more
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Transformations of Tonality: A Longitudinal Study of Yodeling in the Muotatal Valley, Central Switzerland [PDF]
This paper examines the transformation of tonalities in the Central Switzerland village of Muotatal, a small region attracting the focus of ethnomusicologists for harboring and conserving a unique style of yodel, called juuz.
Wey, Yannick
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Corpus Studies and ‘Close Listening’
ABSTRACT This article provides a detailed response to Markus Neuwirth and Martin Rohrmeier's article ‘Wie wissenschaftlich muss Musiktheorie sein?’, published in the Zeitschrift der Gesellschaft für Musiktheorie in 2016. I undertake to nuance their call for the wholesale adoption of machine‐assisted corpus‐based methods in music theory through a ...
NATHAN JOHN MARTIN
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We're all Archivists Now: Towards a more Equitable Ethnomusicology
As ethnomusicologists we have always made and used recordings as part of our research yet we have seldom questioned this central methodology beyond stating that we make and use recordings ‘for our own research purposes’.
Landau, Carolyn +3 more
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Abstract Giving a precise definition of what an institution is raises epistemological dilemmas concerning its supposed universal applicability and the coexistence of different institutional regimes (e.g. state and customary). Scholars who have dabbled with this question often identify rules, behaviours, values, or social roles as the essence of ...
Giordano Marmone
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Contemporary urban folk music in the Balkans: Possibilities for regional music history [PDF]
Starting with Maria Todorova’s landmark study Imagining the Balkans (Todorova 1997), numerous authors have raised their voices against stereotypical images of the Balkans.
Dumnić-Vilotijević Marija
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The Wind Is Always Blowing: Generative Crosscurrents of Ethnographic Dialogue in Australia
ABSTRACT Live conversations and writing play an important role in ethnographic research that seeks to develop understanding across cultural differences. Both forms of communication need not remain distinct: written dialogue can develop critical thought while foregrounding the shared contexts and relational impetuses of communication across cultures ...
Samuel Curkpatrick, Daniel Wilfred
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