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Musicality as material culture

Adaptive Behavior, 2018
From an enactive perspective, one should be able to explain how perception and actions, constituted in patterns of interactions with the world, evolve into the capacities for social coordination and social understanding distinctive of human beings. Traditional accounts of our social understanding skills, focusing on the role of intentionality as the ...
Sergio Finez Martínez   +1 more
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Culture-Aware Music Recommendation

Proceedings of the 26th Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization, 2018
Integrating information about the listener's cultural background when building music recommender systems has recently been identified as a means to improve recommendation quality. In this paper, we therefore propose a novel approach to jointly model users by the user's musical preferences and his/her cultural background.
Eva Zangerle   +2 more
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Music and Culture

2023
A review of the disability-related content presented at the 2013 World Conference of the International Council of Traditional Music (ITCM), now known as the International Council on Traditions of Music and Dance (ICTMD) held at the Shanghai Conservatorium of Music.It also contains a report on all-disabled band Bearbrass Asylum Orchestra winning the ...
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Music and Cultural Practices

2000
Abstract One of the most interesting features of the contributions to this Round Table is the extent to which certain common themes run through them, and I propose to concentrate on these here. As a sociologist with a particular interest in musical activities, rather than a musicologist seeking to add a ‘social’ dimension to the analysis,
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Music Cultures Opened Up by Music Technologies

2015 International Conference on Culture and Computing (Culture Computing), 2015
Music technologies have opened up various music cultures. For example, any musical instruments such as guitar, piano, and sound synthesizers were originally invented by state-of-the-art music technologies and have had huge influences on music cultures.
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‘Gypsy music’ as music of the Other in European culture

Patterns of Prejudice, 2013
ABSTRACTSo-called ‘Gypsy music’—music associated with the Romani people—was perceived within European culture in two different ways: as able to be assimilated and as not able to be assimilated. The first involved the incorporation of Gypsy music into the construction of the national music of certain countries, becoming thus part and parcel of the ...
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Wittgenstein, Music and the Philosophy of Culture

The Harvard Review of Philosophy, 2014
Wittgenstein’s scattered remarks on music, when brought together and then related to his similarly scattered remarks on culture, show a deep and abiding concern with music as a repository and conveyer of meaning in human life. Yet the conception of meaning at work in these remarks is not of a kind that is amenable to brief or concise articulation. This
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Creeds, Cultures And The ‘Witchery Of Music’

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 2003
Frazer's brief excursus on the ‘witchery of music’ is the starting‐point for a discussion of the role of music in the eastern Orthodox (Byzantine) and western Roman Catholic (Latin) Christian traditions, with reference to a region of central Europe where these traditions have co‐existed for more than a thousand years. The Greek Catholic Church provides
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Music, Cognition, Culture, and Evolution

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 2001
Abstract:We seem able to define the biological foundations for our musicality within a clear and unitary framework, yet music itself does not appear so clearly definable. Music is different things and does different things in different cultures; the bundles of elements and functions that are music for any given culture may overlap minimally with those ...
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