Semiotic approaches to “traditional music”, musical/poetic structures, and ethnographic research

Semiotica ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 (229) ◽  
pp. 123-150
Author(s):  
Irene Theodosopoulou
Keyword(s):  
Field Research ◽  
Traditional Music ◽  
Musical Instruments ◽  
Musical Performance ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Analysis Tool ◽  
Musical Analysis ◽  
Semiotic Approach ◽  
Modal Systems

AbstractThis text is a first attempt of approaching traditional music, musical/poetic structures and ethnographic research semiotically. The basic elements of traditional music (motives, rhythms, phonetics, performance speeds, modal systems, musical instruments, repertoire), the musical/poetic structures with morphological types and formulas (musical and poetic), musical and non-musical codes (verbal and nonverbal) during a musical performance (nods, movements, etc.) as well as the ethnographic research itself with its own “performances” (discussions with musicians, recordings, transcriptions, analyses) constitute groups of “signs” and codes that, combined together, create complex frames of meanings and re-definitions not only among musicians and revelers but also among ethnographers and their interlocutors and among ethnographic “texts” and their representations after multiple readings. This text presents elements that emerged after an enduring field research in Crete (1998–2008). The use of semiotics in the study of traditional music and musical analysis can constitute a useful analysis tool for ethnographic research from planning to composing ethnographic “texts” (texts, transcriptions, analyses). This text highlights the necessity of initiating a dialogue concerning the aspects and perspectives of a semiotic approach to musicology and music ethnography.

scholarly journals TRANSKULTURASI MUSIK ANTARAGAMELAN JAWA, ANGKLUNG, DAN MUSIK TRADISI THAILAND

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 158
Author(s):  
Surasak Jamnongsarn
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Traditional Music ◽  
Musical Instrument ◽  
Musical Instruments ◽  
Material Object ◽  
New Development ◽  
The Impact

Javanese gamelan and angklung to Thailand music gives the impact on the development of Thailand traditional music. That musical transculturation exists in the musical instrument of angklung and the musical concept of Javanese gamelan that are then mixed with the system of Thailand traditional music involving gamut (tuning system), presentment method, and its function in society. This transculturation shows the understanding of cultural relation between Thailand traditional music that has the background of Buddhism philosophy and Gamelan that has the background of Kejawen syncretism. These two kinds of music have formed the new characteristic and identity of Thailand music. Angklung played with the concept of Javanese gamelan called as angklung Thailand that then becomes Thailand traditional music. The article aims at revealing the transculturation of Javanese gamelan and angklung into the traditional music and its impact on the development of Thailand traditional music. This research used qualitative method with the accentuation in field research that involved researcher with the material object to delve various musical experiences by participating as the player of those two musical instruments. The transculturation of Javanese gamelan and angklung with Thailand traditional music has given the new development in Thailand traditional music. Keywords: Transculturation, Javanese gamelan, angklung, and Thailand traditional music  ABSTRAKTranskulturasi gamelan Jawa dan angklung ke Thailand memberikan dampak pada perkembangan musik tradisi Thailand. Transkulturasi musik itu berwujud pada alat musik angklung dan konsep musikal gamelan Jawa, kemudian bercampur dengan sistem musik tradisi Thailand, yang mencakup pada tangga nada (tuning system), carapenyajian, dan fungsinya dalam masyarakat. Transkulturasi inimemunculkan pemahaman relasi kebudayaan antara musik tradisi Thailand yang berlatar belakang filosofi Buddhisme dan gamelan yang berlatar belakang sinkretis kejawen. Kedua musik ini telahmembentuk ciri dan identitas baru musik Thailand.Angklung yang dimainkan dengan konsep gamelan Jawa yang disebut angklung Thailand selanjutnya menjadi musik tradisi Thailand. Artikel bertujuan mengungkap transkulturasi gamelan Jawa dan angklung ke musik tradisi serta dampaknya pada perkembangan musik tradisi Thailand. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode kualitatif dengan penekanan pada penelitian lapangan yang melibatkan peneliti dengan objek materialuntuk menggali berbagai pengalaman musikal dengan ikut serta bermain kedua musik itu. Transkulturasi gamelan Jawa dan angklung dengan music tradisi Thailand telah memberikan perkembangan baru pada musik tradisi Thailand. Kata kunci: transkulturasi, gamelan Jawa, angklung, dan musik tradisi Thailand 

scholarly journals Studi Perbandingan Kadar Ni dan Fe Berdasarkan Sampel Cek Pit dan Sampel Cek Stock Pile Mining Nikel pada PT. Bintangdelapan Mineral Sulawesi Tengah

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 41
Author(s):  
Villa Evadelvia Ginal Sambari
Keyword(s):  
Field Research ◽  
Analysis Tool ◽  
Microsoft Excel ◽  
Preparation Stage ◽  
Stock Pile ◽  
Collection Data ◽  
Nickel Mining ◽  
Mineral District ◽  
The Village ◽  
Central Sulawesi

Nickel mining in PT. Bintangdelapan Mineral District located in the village Fatufia Bahodopi Morowali, Central Sulawesi. The purpose of this research study sampling techniques and sample checks pit stock pile, and aimed to compare the levels of Ni, Fe. The authors limit the issues on comparative levels of Ni, Fe, based on sampling and sample checks pit mining production and production sample port stock pile, using the analysis tool Minipal. Field research methods consisting of the preparation stage, the stage of data collection, data processing stage and phase of Thesis. Results in getting the checks on the sampling pit, mining samples, and sample port is an increase in levels, this is because the mining PT. Bintangdelapan Minerals has applied to both selective mining mining methods. In this sample, the researcher applied sampling method and sample check stock pile pit nickel laterite operations in accordance with standard PT. Bintangdelapan Minerals, the data obtained is processed using Microsoft Excel and then presented in the form of reading SPSS (Statistical Product And Service Solution).

scholarly journals COEXISTENCE OF CLASSICAL MUSIC AND GUGAK IN KOREAN CULTURE

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 67-99
Author(s):  
So Hyun Park
Keyword(s):  
Classical Music ◽  
Traditional Music ◽  
Musical Instruments ◽  
Colonial Period ◽  
New Music ◽  
Flowering Period ◽  
Korean Culture ◽  
Korean Traditional Music ◽  
Japanese Colonial

Classical music and Korean traditional music ‘Gugak’ in Korean culture try various ways such as creating new music and culture through mutual interchange and fusion for coexistence. The purpose of this study is to investigate the present status of Classical music in Korea that has not been 200 years old during the flowering period and the Japanese colonial period, and the classification of Korean traditional music and musical instruments, and to examine the preservation and succession of traditional Gugak, new Korean traditional music and fusion Korean traditional music. Finally, it is exemplified that Gugak and Classical music can converge and coexist in various collaborations based on the institutional help of the nation. In conclusion, Classical music and Korean traditional music try to create synergy between them in Korean culture by making various efforts such as new attempts and conservation.

scholarly journals The Effect of Income with Household Consumption on The Welfare of Dodol Potato Businesses Assessed From Islamic Economic Concept

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 81-93
Author(s):  
Cendra Cendra ◽  
Muhammad Fauzi ◽  
Arzam Arzam ◽  
Aidil Novia ◽  
Hulwati Hulwati ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mixed Method ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Household Consumption ◽  
Research Data ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Analysis Tool ◽  
Regression Equations ◽  
Economic Concept ◽  
Data Analysis Tool ◽  
Islamic Economic

The purposed of this study was to analyze the influence between income and household consumption on the welfare of potatoes taffy business in Lubuk Nagodang Village, Siulak Subdistrict, Kerinci regency. This study was assessing the welfare of taffy business in Islamic economic concepts and indicators. Field research with quantitative-qualitative (Mixed Method) as the method and approach used in this research. The research data was sourced from primary data, using multiple linear regression equations as a data analysis tool. This study was shown that the income partially has a significant effect on the welfare of potatoes taffy business that assessed from the Islamic economic concept. Then, household consumption partially has a significant effect on the welfare of potatoes taffy business assessed from the concept of Islamic economics. Besides, the income with household consumption simultaneously has a significant effect on the welfare of potatoes taffy business assessed from the concept of Islamic economics with a significance value of 0.000 0.05, and both variables contribute 69.2% together, while the remaining 30 ,8% influenced or explained by other factors not discussed in this study.

Ethnographic Research

2021 ◽  
pp. 138-159
Keyword(s):  
Research Method ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Separate Entity ◽  
Ethnographic Approach ◽  
The Stranger ◽  
Theoretical Foundations ◽  
Final Text

This chapter considers some of the essential features of ethnography as a qualitative method. The main theoretical foundations of ethnographic approach are explained; however, the emphasis is mainly on how ethnography is done. Thus, the techniques for collecting data used by ethnographers take the central part of this chapter with some special attention to the methodology of observation. Through many examples, the authors describe the various forms of observation as a social research method. It is useful to illustrate the approach of the ethnographer through the metaphor of the “stranger” because “reflexivity” is an important part of the qualitative approach of ethnography. The practicalities of recording the field research and writing memos are fully considered in conjunction with practical suggestions and conceptual discussion, including the writing up of the final text which should be the conclusion of a consequential process, rather than a separate entity.

Ethical dilemmas and challenges in ethnographic migration research

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 281-291
Author(s):  
Martha Montero-Sieburth
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Ethical Dilemmas ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Ethical Challenges ◽  
Bottom Up ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Migration Research ◽  
The Us

PurposeArgued is the need for: (1) a clearer interpretation of procedural ethics guidelines; (2) the identification and development of ethical field case study models which can be incorporated into university ethics teaching; (3) an understanding of the vulnerabilities of researchers and participants as reflected in the researchers' positionality and reflexivity and (4) ethnographic monitoring as a participant-friendly and participatory ethics methodology.Design/methodology/approachThis article, drawn from the author's four-decade trajectory of collective ethnographic research, addresses the ethical challenges and dilemmas encountered by researchers when conducting ethnographic research, particularly with vulnerable migrant women and youth.FindingsThe author addresses dilemmas in field research resulting from different interpretations of ethics and emphasizes the need for researchers to be critically aware of their own vulnerabilities and those of migrants to avoid unethical practices in validating the context(s), language(s), culture and political landscape of their study.Research limitations/implicationsThe author presents case studies from the US and the Netherlands, underlining her positionality and reflexivity and revisits Dell Hymes' ethnographic monitoring approach as a participant-friendly, bottom-up methodology which enables researchers to co-construct knowledge with participants and leads to participatory ethics.Practical implicationsShe presents case studies from the US and the Netherlands underlining her positionality and reflexivity and revisits Dell Hymes’ ethnographic monitoring approach as a participant-friendly, bottom up methodology which enables researchers to co-construct knowledge with participants and engage in participatory ethics.Social implicationsFinally, she proposes guidelines for the ethical conduct of research with migrant populations that contribute to the broader methodological debates currently taking place in qualitative migration research.Originality/valueExpected from this reading is the legacy that as a qualitative migration researcher one can after 4 decades of research leave behind as caveats and considerations in working with vulnerable migrants and the ethical dilemmas and challenges that need to be overcome.

Digital Ethnography in an Age of Information Warfare: Notes from the Field

2019 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip R. Kavanaugh ◽  
R. J. Maratea
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Field Research ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Information Warfare ◽  
Digital Ethnography ◽  
Principal Objective ◽  
Media Environments ◽  
Structural Perspective

In this article we engage the nature and role of the Internet in ethnographic research and reflect on how ethnographic methodologies may be adapted when researching digital forms of communication. We further consider how recent shifts in both the production and dissemination of textual discourse in networked media environments complicates conventional approaches to digital ethnography. Drawing on examples from our field research, our principal objective is to apply a Foucauldian structural perspective to David Altheide’s ethnographic content analysis to better contextualize the study of digital communiqué in a cultural moment where discourses are increasingly surveilled, modified, censored and weaponized.

Queer as Trad

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tes Slominski
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Traditional Music ◽  
The United States ◽  
Social Identities ◽  
Musical Performance ◽  
Ethnographic Interviews ◽  
Music Scene ◽  
Ethnicity And Race ◽  
Irish Traditional Music

This chapter demonstrates that studying the experiences of queer musicians and dancers is vital to understanding the relationships among music, selfhood, and social identities in Irish traditional music. By breaking the silence around LGBTQ performers of Irish traditional music through ethnographic interviews with queer musicians in the United States, this chapter addresses the paradox that non-normative participants experience musical performance as simultaneously liberatory and confining. This chapter explores musicians’ feelingful experiences of “the music itself” as an escape and examines the issues queer musicians face in gaining recognition in the Irish traditional music scene. More broadly, this chapter begins a conversation about nationalist assumptions around sexuality, gender, ethnicity, and race still implicit in the (re)production of sounds and bodily practices considered “Irish.”

scholarly journals Budismo primordial: histórias rem(c)ontadas

ILUMINURAS ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 16 (38) ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexsânder Nakaóka Elias
Keyword(s):  
Field Research ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Photographic Images ◽  
Joint Construction ◽  
Religious Importance

O presente trabalho tem o intuito de relatar minha experiência etnográfica junto à comunidade Honmon Butsuryu-shu (HBS), uma importante corrente do Budismo japonês e a primeira a alcançar as terras tupiniquins, através do sacerdote Ibaragui. O artigo é uma síntese da minha pesquisa de campo, realizada em maio de 2014, na qual, juntamente com uma caravana brasileira e japonesa, composta por sacerdotes e fiéis, pude acompanhar o chamado Caminho Primordial do Budismo, passando por diversos templos no Japão e pelas cidades sagradas da religião, na Índia e no Nepal (local do surgimento do Budismo). No contexto desta pesquisa etnográfica, fiz uso do método de observação, do registro de narrativas e, principalmente, de imagens fotográficas. O intuito principal é o de mostrar que a pesquisa de campo consistiu em uma construção conjunta com a comunidade, tendo como mediador e informante principal  o arcebispo Correia, personagem que possui importância religiosa e política fundamentais dentro da HBS do Brasil.Palavras-chave: Etnografia. Fotografia. Budismo. Pesquisa de campo. Mitologia.Buddhism primordial: stories reassembledAbstractThis study aims to report my ethnographic experience with the community Honmon Butsuryu-shu (HBS), one important Japanese Buddhist segment and the first to reach the brazilian lands, through the priest Ibaragui Nissui, in 1908.The article is a summary of my field research, conducted in may 2014, in which, along with a Brazilian and Japanese caravan, composed of priests and faithful, I could follow the path of Buddhism called Primordial, through various temples in Japan and the holy cities of religion in India and Nepal (site of the emergence of Buddhism).In the context of ethnographic research, I use the method of observation, the narratives record and mainly photographic images. The main aim is to show that the fieldwork consisted of a joint construction with the community, with the mediator and the main informant Correia Archbishop character that has religious importance and fundamental policy within the HBS of Brazil.Key words: Ethnography. Photography. Buddhism. Fieldwork. Mythology.

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