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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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This article takes a diachronic look at the use of the word "identity" in ethnomusicology and related disciplines, synthesizing disparate uses and definitions to suggest an all-encompassing yet concise definition.
Nolan Warden
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Muti Music - In search of suspicion
Our playful title, "Muti Music", emblematises our stance of deliberate and cultivated suspicion towards medical ethnomusicology, for this special issue.
Mercédès Pavlicevic, Charlotte Cripps
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Cross-cultural data shows musical scales evolved to maximise imperfect fifths [PDF]
Musical scales are used throughout the world, but the question of how they evolved remains open. Some suggest that scales based on the harmonic series are inherently pleasant, while others propose that scales are chosen that are easy to communicate. However, testing these theories has been hindered by the sparseness of empirical evidence.
arxiv
Listening to Garhwali Popular Music in and out of Place [PDF]
Listening to popular music is a central means by which people construct their place in the world, both literally and figuratively. For Garhwalis living inside and outside of the Himalayas, listening to vernacular popular music has been one way in which ...
Fiol, Stefan
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Ethnomusicology: Issues and Possibilities
This study investigates and analyzes the relationship between the development of the field of Ethnomusicology in United States, since the 1950s, and its predecessor known as Comparative Musicology, which emerged during the last two decades of 19th century Germany.
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The article aims to analyse the history of public calls for funding projects in the area of cultural activities of ethnic minority communities in Slovenia.
Urša Šivic
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This article illustrates how the aesthetics of two types of Cambodian music—pin peat and Cambodian hip hop—enact Cambodian–Buddhist ethics and function as ritual practices through musicians’ recollections of deceased teachers’ musical legacies.
Jeffrey Dyer
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The Bach Doodle: Approachable music composition with machine learning at scale [PDF]
To make music composition more approachable, we designed the first AI-powered Google Doodle, the Bach Doodle, where users can create their own melody and have it harmonized by a machine learning model Coconet (Huang et al., 2017) in the style of Bach. For users to input melodies, we designed a simplified sheet-music based interface.
arxiv
Exploring micro-worlds of music meanings [PDF]
A musical practice may have exclusive meanings shared only by some groups of people within a society. In fact, music has the capacity to create spaces for reserved communication between groups of individuals.
Macchiarella I
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