Introduction

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-26
Author(s):  
Michael Birenbaum Quintero
Keyword(s):  
Popular Music ◽  
Cultural Politics ◽  
Pacific Coast ◽  
Traditional Music ◽  
Ethnographic Methods ◽  
Musical Meaning ◽  
Racial Formations ◽  
Political Resource ◽  
Black Pacific

The introduction to this book begins by covering the multiplicity of meanings of currulao, the traditional music of the black inhabitants of Colombia’s southern Pacific coast. It submits that the aim of this tome is to trace the emergence, development, maintenance, and in some cases abandonment of the systems of meaning that frame people’s different experiences of local currulao music—as ritual, folklore, popular music, identity-marker, and political resource. It contextualizes the region and introduces the discussion’s conceptual frames: musical meaning, the black Pacific, genealogy, racial formations, cultural politics, and reification. It also describes the historical and ethnographic methods used.

Rites, Rights and Rhythms

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Birenbaum Quintero
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Difference ◽  
Black Politics ◽  
Black Population ◽  
Traditional Music ◽  
Musical Meaning ◽  
National Heritage ◽  
History Of ◽  
Theory Of History ◽  
Black Pacific ◽  
Social Importance

Colombia has the largest black population in the Spanish-speaking world, but Afro-Colombians have long remained at the nation’s margins. Their recent irruption into the political, social, and cultural spheres is tied to appeals to cultural difference, dramatized by the traditional music of Colombia’s majority-black Southern Pacific region, often called currulao. Yet that music remains largely unknown and unstudied despite its complexity, aesthetic appeal, and social importance. Rites, Rights & Rhythms: A Genealogy of Musical Meaning in Colombia’s Black Pacific is the first book-length academic study of currulao, inquiring into the numerous ways that it has been used: to praise the saints, to grapple with modernization, to dramatize black politics, to demonstrate national heritage, to generate economic development, and to provide social amelioration in a context of war. The author draws on both archival and ethnographic research to trace these and other opinions about how currulao has been understood, illuminating a history of struggles over its meanings that are also struggles over the meanings of blackness in Colombia. Moving from the eighteenth century to the present, this book asks how musical meaning is made, maintained, and sometimes abandoned across historical contexts as varied as colonial slavery, twentieth-century national populism, and neoliberal multiculturalism. What emerges is both a rich portrait of one of the hemisphere’s most important and understudied black cultures and a theory of history traced through the performative practice of currulao.

Enabling Popular Music Teaching in the Secondary Classroom – Singapore Teachers' Perspectives

2018 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 301-319
Author(s):  
Hoon Hong Ng
Keyword(s):  
Public Schools ◽  
Popular Music ◽  
Music Teachers ◽  
Secondary School Teachers ◽  
Traditional Music ◽  
Music Teaching ◽  
Music Pedagogy ◽  
Youth Cultures ◽  
Secondary Classroom ◽  
Teachers Perspectives

The pervasiveness of popular music and its associated practices in current youth cultures brings into question the relevance and effectiveness of more traditional music pedagogies, and propels a search for a more current and engaging music pedagogy informed by popular music practices. With this as the basis, this study seeks to explore factors that may enable the success and effectiveness of popular music programmes in public schools through the lenses of three Singapore secondary school teachers as they conducted their popular music lessons over seven to ten weeks. In the process, the study also describes how these teachers pragmatically negotiated the execution of these programmes within Singapore's unique educational context. The findings may serve to inform music teachers and school leaders keen to establish similar programmes as a matter of on-going dialogue.

Effects of Chinese popular music familiarity on preference for traditional Chinese music: Research and applications

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 329-358 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yunshu Tan ◽  
Lauren Conti
Keyword(s):  
Music Education ◽  
Popular Music ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Traditional Music ◽  
World Music ◽  
Chinese Music ◽  
Short Term Exposure ◽  
Post Test ◽  
Music Research

Teaching and learning popular music and world musics are prominent topics in music education but often play a supplement role in the classroom. The main purpose of this quantitative experimental study was to investigate the effects of Chinese popular music on students’ familiarity and preference for its traditional version. Participants were undergraduate students from a university in the northeastern United States who completed a pre-test, minimum four weekly treatments and post-test. Results suggest participation in a world music course may contribute to preference for Chinese traditional music, but short-term exposure to popular versions of Chinese traditional music does not seem to contribute to preference for Chinese traditional music. A reason for this may be that popular music has its own cultures and characteristics that are not necessarily transferable to music from other music genres. In addition, the personality traits of open-mindedness or closed-mindedness showed significant influence over preference for traditional or popular music, respectively.

scholarly journals PREFERENSI MUSIK DI KALANGAN REMAJA

PROMUSIKA ◽  
2013 ◽  
pp. 75
Author(s):  
Ayub Prasetiyo
Keyword(s):  
Popular Music ◽  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Music Preference ◽  
Musical Meaning ◽  
Rank Position ◽  
Data Collecting ◽  
Objective Value ◽  
Musical Styles

The main purpose of this study is to understand the interest trend of music preference among youths as well as to analyse factors that influence the trend. Although qualitative method was used, this study utilized questioner for its data collecting technique. The collected data was analyzed to gather respondents’s point of views and answers concerning music that they like. This study conclude that music interest trend among youth is mostly to popular music. Although the music has taken the highest rank position, its supporters are not only listen to their main preference but also other musical styles. Youths’s tendency to choose popular music have been based on several factors such as, the objective value of the music, the capability of the music to represent conditions that are experienced by them, as well as musical meaning among the youths. Keywords: Music preference, popular music, youths

scholarly journals Traditional music and the anatomy of the festival network between Yugoslavian cultural politics and vernacular values

Muzikologija ◽  
2012 ◽  
pp. 103-120
Author(s):  
Rastko Jakovljevic
Keyword(s):  
Social Structure ◽  
Cultural Politics ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Traditional Music ◽  
Local Culture ◽  
Political Structure ◽  
Cultural Form ◽  
Cultural Life ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Post War

As official policies in the post-war Yugoslavia were oriented towards economy, mainly tied to towns, rural areas were focused on agriculture to a large extent, as it had been before. However, the Party was determined to revive villages, being of the opinion that life in those areas should be purified from ?primitivism? so that it could be set to a higher level concerning issues of education, political structure, local organization and cultural life. Since people in villages felt determined to maintain their local culture, customs and music, the State officials had to find ways to articulate uncanny social behaviors. At the time, folklore and vernacular creative impulse in Serbia was sustained as a ?hard cultural form? that by accident or on purpose converted into ?soft cultural form? through a wide range of festival activities in Yugoslavia. This significant turn permitted ?relatively easy separation of embodied performance from meaning and value, and relatively successful transformation at each level? (Appadurai 1996: 90). The discussion of this paper intends to form a dialogue on the transformation of social structure and politics, which gradually led to severe changes in the areas of traditional musical practice.

scholarly journals From Me To You

2014 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew L. BaileyShea
Keyword(s):  
Popular Music ◽  
Single Point ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Musical Meaning ◽  
Song Lyrics ◽  
The Way

Scholars have long recognized the complexities of song personas in popular music. Less well recognized is the way that the deployment of pronouns in pop song lyrics can create sudden shifts in the various currents of musical meaning. Although songs often commit to a single point of view, it is quite common for songs to feature complex shifts in discourse, sometimes aligned with important changes in the music. This paper addresses an especially important pattern, a shift from distance to intimacy.

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