7. Empire, decoloniality, and the globalization of world music

2020 ◽  
pp. 100-115
Author(s):  
Philip V. Bohlman
Keyword(s):  
Folk Music ◽  
World Music ◽  
Global Cities ◽  
Media Access ◽  
Modern Cities ◽  
Extensive Documentation ◽  
Recent Trends ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Wedding Music

‘Empire, decoloniality, and the globalization of world music’ takes empire and globalization as points of departure, exploring street music in Romania and wedding music in Kolkata—global music performed locally that collapses the difference between world music and traditional folk music. The globalization of world music has been brought about by the development of modern cities into ‘global cities’, improved recording technologies, easy media access, and the expansion of ethnomusicology. The Rough Guides to World Music provide extensive documentation of the postmodern encounter with world music, and perhaps unintentionally act as a guide to recent trends in ethnomusicology.

Experiment role in the world music (based on the «The Road» album of the Ukrainian «Dakha Brakha» band)

2018 ◽  
pp. 215-227
Author(s):  
Iia Fedorova
Keyword(s):  
Folk Music ◽  
World Music ◽  
The Other ◽  
Modern Music ◽  
Musical Practice ◽  
The Road ◽  
Music Practice ◽  
The World ◽  
Binary Oppositions ◽  
Musical Practices

The main objective of this study is the substantiation of experiment as one of the key features of the world music in Ukraine. Based on the creative works of the brightest world music representatives in Ukraine, «Dakha Brakha» band, the experiment is regarded as a kind of creative setting. Methodology and scientific approaches. The methodology was based on the music practice theory by T. Cherednychenko. The author distinguishes four binary oppositions, which can describe the musical practice. According to one of these oppositions («observance of the canon or violation of the canon»), the musical practices, to which the Ukrainian musicology usually classifies the world music («folk music» and «minstrel music»), are compared with the creative work of «Dakha Brakha» band. Study findings. A lack of the setting to experiment in the musical practices of the «folk music» and «minstrel music» separates the world music musical practice from them. Therefore, the world music is a separate type of musical practice in which the experiment is crucial. The study analyzed several scientific articles of Ukrainian musicologists on the world music; examined the history of the Ukrainian «Dakha Brakha» band; presented a list of the folk songs used in the fifth album «The Road» by «Dakha Brakha» band; and showed the degree of the source transformation by musicians based on the example of the «Monk» song. The study findings can be used to form a comprehensive understanding of the world music musical practice. The further studies may be related to clarification of the other parameters of the world music musical practice, and to determination of the experiment role in creative works of the other world music representatives, both Ukrainian and foreign. The practical study value is the ability to use its key provisions in the course of modern music in higher artistic schools of Ukraine. Originality / value. So far, the Ukrainian musicology did not consider the experiment role as the key one in the world music.

scholarly journals The Balkans of the Balkans: The Meaning of Autobalkanism in Regional Popular Music

Arts ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 70 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marija Dumnić Vilotijević
Keyword(s):  
Popular Music ◽  
Folk Music ◽  
World Music ◽  
First Century ◽  
Special Focus ◽  
Western Balkans ◽  
Applied Music ◽  
The Balkans ◽  
The People ◽  
Musical Characteristics

In this article, I discuss the use of the term “Balkan” in the regional popular music. In this context, Balkan popular music is contemporary popular folk music produced in the countries of the Balkans and intended for the Balkan markets (specifically, the people in the Western Balkans and diaspora communities). After the global success of “Balkan music” in the world music scene, this term influenced the cultures in the Balkans itself; however, interestingly, in the Balkans themselves “Balkan music” does not only refer to the musical characteristics of this genre—namely, it can also be applied music that derives from the genre of the “newly-composed folk music”, which is well known in the Western Balkans. The most important legacy of “Balkan” world music is the discourse on Balkan stereotypes, hence this article will reveal new aspects of autobalkanism in music. This research starts from several questions: where is “the Balkans” which is mentioned in these songs actually situated; what is the meaning of the term “Balkan” used for the audience from the Balkans; and, what are musical characteristics of the genre called trepfolk? Special focus will be on the post-Yugoslav market in the twenty-first century, with particular examples in Serbian language (as well as Bosnian and Croatian).

scholarly journals Indoor Localization within Multi-Story Buildings Using MAC and RSSI Fingerprint Vectors

Sensors ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (11) ◽  
pp. 2433 ◽  
Author(s):  
Litao Han ◽  
Li Jiang ◽  
Qiaoli Kong ◽  
Ji Wang ◽  
Aiguo Zhang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Wireless Local Area Network ◽  
Indoor Localization ◽  
Local Area Network ◽  
Local Area ◽  
Indoor Positioning ◽  
Media Access Control ◽  
Area Network ◽  
Media Access ◽  
Novel Approach ◽  
The Difference

For existing wireless network devices and smart phones to achieve available positioning accuracy easily, fingerprint localization is widely used in indoor positioning, which depends on the differences of the Received Signal Strength Indicator (RSSI) from the Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) in different places. Currently, most researchers pay more attention to the improvement of online positioning algorithms using RSSI values, while few focus on the MAC (media access control) addresses received from the WLAN. Accordingly, we attempt to integrate MAC addresses and RSSI values simultaneously in order to realize indoor localization within multi-story buildings. A novel approach to indoor positioning within multi-story buildings is presented in this article, which includes two steps: firstly, to identify the floor using the difference of received MAC addresses in different floors; secondly, to implement further localization on the same floor. Meanwhile, clustering operation using MAC addresses as the clustering index is introduced in the online positioning phase to improve the efficiency and accuracy of indoor positioning. Experimental results show that the proposed approach can achieve not only the precise location with the horizontal accuracy of 1.8 meters, but also the floor where the receiver is located within multi-story buildings.

scholarly journals Fenomena Multikulturalisme Dalam Musik: Sebuah Telaah Elemen Elemen Musikal Non Barat dalam Karya Komposer Musik Barat

2012 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Esy Maestro
Keyword(s):  
American Music ◽  
World Music ◽  
The Political ◽  
Music Culture ◽  
African American Music ◽  
The World ◽  
Long Time ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Difference ◽  
History Of Literature

The study of the music phenomenon has long been an important discussion due to its role in upholding the accretion of the history of literature of the world of music. Among the two poles music’s idealism, which is between European and American, they both have different opinion about multiculturalism. The multiculturalism in the Europe is the unification of the music culture with the lowest integrity level between the music cultures which possibly experience the multicultural process. It means, with the music culture base which just established like music classic, so that the multicultural process will cannot be seen easily from the music which recommended, because its interference usually dissolved is the music substance which intrinsically used, at rhythmic, melodies, form and others.  Meanwhile the multiculturalism phenomenon in the America will offers the explicit structures, which accurately occurs the powerful and influential multiculturalism process. This thing also based on the heterogeneous America’s people as the interference of many cultures by means of the difference music. The multiculturalism music in America also develop faster because in its accretion it influence with the political period and the crime-infested unsafe makes the countries which moves to America feels that they the same. So, it is not surprise if the performance of the African-American music or the America’s World Music will demonstrate the music multiculturalism process which actual and has been growth for a long time. Keywords: the music, multiculturarism, America and Europe

scholarly journals Genre and style priorities of accordion performance in traditional common culture of USA

2021 ◽  
pp. 150-155
Author(s):  
L. Shemet
Keyword(s):  
Folk Music ◽  
The United States ◽  
World Music ◽  
Dance Music ◽  
Musical Style ◽  
Important Place ◽  
Common Culture ◽  
The World ◽  
Historical Dynamics ◽  
Regional Specificity

The relevance of the study is determined by the wide popularity of accordion in various genres and styles of American folk music, significant achievements of American accordionists in preserving and developing performing traditions in accordance with the ethnocultural specifics of a particular region of the country and presentation of creative achievements of famous American folk groups in the world music space, as well as by lack of the studies on this issue in the field of musicology in Ukraine. The aim of the study is to define the genre and style priorities of accordion performance in the traditional common culture of Americans, highlight the regional specifics of styles and genres of American folk music, in the reproduction of which the accordion is directly involved, as well as describe textural, articulatory and picking, metric and rhythmic features of playing the instrument. The methodology. The methodological basis of the study is the interaction of scientific approaches, among which an important place is occupied by historical, cultural, systemic, structural and functional, musicological methods. The results. In the traditional common culture of Americans, the performance on the accordion is presented quite diversely in terms of the instruments, distribution areas, genre, and style palette of music performed. Historical, sociocultural and geopolitical factors, ethnocultural influences, multicultural tendencies determined the regional specificity of the instruments. The Cajun accordion, the diatonic button accordion, and the chromatic piano accordion have gained considerable popularity in the traditional common culture of various regions of the United States. Each of them took leading positions in the reproduction of a certain musical style: Cajun accordion — Cajun and Zydeco, diatonic button accordion — Cojunto, chromatic piano accordion — Zydeco. The button (diatonic or chromatic) and piano accordions were mainly used in the instrumental composition of dance music groups, in particular in the genre of polka, depending on the region with the corresponding ethnic specificity. The accordion performance vividly embodies the genre and style features of American folk music in the context of its historical dynamics and capability of artistic expression, including intonation expressiveness and characteristic techniques of playing, inherent in a certain design model of the instrument. The topicality of the study is to reproduce the genre and style specifics of accordion performance in the traditional common culture of Americans.

Performing in the Italian American “Translation Zone”

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Incoronata (Nadia) Inserra
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New York ◽  
Folk Music ◽  
Translation Studies ◽  
New Age ◽  
World Music ◽  
Social Significance ◽  
United State ◽  
Italian American ◽  
The Social

This article explores the work of New-York-based Italian performance artist Alessandra Belloni, particularly her Rhythm Is the Cure workshop featuring Southern-Italian tarantella folk music and dances. Drawing on translation studies scholarship, I analyze Belloni’s adaptation of tarantella for United States and international audiences, particularly World Music and New Age performance circles, while also evaluating the social significance of this project from a feminist perspective. Furthermore, I contextualize Belloni’s work within the Italian American cultural scene and compare her adaptation of tarantella to the work of several Italian and Italian American artists who have contributed to popularize tarantella in the United State since the 1990s.

Marrying Past, Present, and Future

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tanya Merchant
Keyword(s):  
Popular Music ◽  
Central Asia ◽  
Folk Music ◽  
Art Music ◽  
Musical Performance ◽  
Vital Part ◽  
Western Art ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Wedding Music ◽  
Musical Genres

This chapter examines the ways in which musicians cross the four musical genres in Uzbekistan: maqom, folk music, Western art music, and popular music. Most of the women interviewed for this book interacted with all four genres at some point, and most have strong opinions about each type of practice. The diversity of styles of music present in events associated with Uzbek weddings and the ubiquity of weddings means that they act as unifiers for Tashkenters across disciplinary divides. The chapter first provides an overview of the importance of wedding music throughout Central Asia before discussing the significance of musical performance at weddings. It shows that wedding music is a vital part of the musical economy in Tashkent and is one that involves a wide range of musical styles, including most of those institutionalized in the Uzbek State Conservatory.

4. Music of the folk

2020 ◽  
pp. 50-68
Author(s):  
Philip V. Bohlman
Keyword(s):  
Folk Music ◽  
World Music ◽  
European Perspective ◽  
Two Cultures ◽  
The World ◽  
Celtic Music

If folk music made it possible to imagine world music, it did so from a European perspective. ‘Music of the folk’ examines what concepts of folk and nationality meant to Hungarian composers Bartók and Kodály and explores the global success of folk-inspired Celtic music. Musical pioneers often straddled two cultures, such as Leadbelly, who performed both rural Southern blues and more sophisticated fusion. Leadbelly’s story and others were documented by the Lomax family of folk musician scholars. The spread of polka across the world suggests that there is a place for folk music within world music, contradicting claims that the idea of world music encourages homogenization.

Global Tarantella

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Incoronata Inserra
Keyword(s):  
Folk Music ◽  
World Music ◽  
Cultural Tradition ◽  
Cultural Groups ◽  
Global Circulation ◽  
Italian Americans ◽  
Music Scenes ◽  
Italian American ◽  
Music Venues ◽  
Italian Diaspora

This book ventures into the history, global circulation, and recontextualization of tarantella, a genre of Southern Italian folk music and dance; in particular, it explores this phenomenon by observing local and national music and dance festivals and international dance performances and workshops, as well as by analyzing the contemporary production of new tarantella music text. Examining tarantella's changing image and role among Italians and Italian Americans, the book illuminates how factors like tourism, translation, and world music venues have shifted the ethics of place embedded in the tarantella cultural tradition. Once rural, religious, and rooted, tarantella now thrives in settings urban, secular, migrant, and ethnic. The book argues that the genre's changing dynamics contribute to reimagining southern Italian identity, especially in relation to the Italian Southern Question; in fact, they help Southern Italian groups redefine their own identities as immigrants within a larger Mediterranean and postcolonial context. They also translate tarantella into a different kind of performance that serves new social and cultural groups and purposes. Indeed, as tarantella moves from local and national Italian festivals to the Italian diaspora as well as to New Age and world-music scenes, its growth promotes a reassessment of gender relations in the Italian South and helps create space for Italian and Italian American women to reclaim gendered aspects of the genre.

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