Tag: music
Love and the Pursuit of Home after War
Among Acholis, ideals of home and a good life are resilient even if everyday realities increasingly diverge from such aspirations. There is a tendency to think about love…
Changing Its Tune
Back in 2012 I blogged about MidEast Tunes (mideasttunes.com) one of the largest Arabic music sites in the world. I just updated my old post to fix the…
Kristina Jacobsen on her new book, The Sound of Navajo Country
https://www.uncpress.org/book/9781469631868/the-sound-of-navajo-country/?title_id=3849 Morgan Siewert: On its face, your project to analyze expressive culture among Navajo country music artists using…
Inhabiting Public Space: Guerrilla Music on YouTube
Este contenido está disponible en español aquí. *Many of the names and places mentioned below have been changed.* While the FARC (Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia or Revolutionary…
Suk-Young Kim on her new book, K-Pop Live
https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=29375 Interview by Chuyun Oh Chuyun Oh: What were some of the questions you want to explore when you first decided to write a book on K-pop, and…
Kiwi, the imaginary ethnographer
this is, you know, pretty great. Please visit the show on the theme of Imaginary Ethnography in Experimental Music and Sound on the web space of Jeu de Paume: Fourth Worlds…
反对声音自然主义 | Against Sonic Naturalism
At the end of last year, I had the privilege to be part of the best academic conference ever – full spoilers, it’s called Tuning Speculation, it’s broadly…
Critique of Marxist Musicology (lack in the Blak, Politics in the Lyrics, ears in the fears, bound to sound…)
Just catching up with critical appreciations. This: jazeel2005
Alex E. Chávez on his new book, Sounds of Crossing
https://www.dukeupress.edu/sounds-of-crossing Interview by William Cotter William Cotter: In the introduction to your book you mention that for Mexican migrants, transnational forms of music making c…
East Side Orchestras: Music and Social Change
I am currently working on a research project that looks at the social impacts of Arohanui Strings, Porirua Soundscapes, and Virtuoso Strings. These groups provide free, Sistema-inspired orchestral mus…
Lloyd Coleman on How He Has Music at His Fingertips
Annamaria Dall’Anese – PhD Anthropology Lloyd Coleman on How He Has Music at His Fingertips Anthropology’s aim is to see the world through the native’s…
Enchantment as Methodology
An invited post by: Yana Stainova “The sharing of joy, whether physical, emotional, psychic or intellectual forms a bridge between the sharers, which can be the basis…
Enchantment as Methodology
An invited post by: Yana Stainova “The sharing of joy, whether physical, emotional, psychic or intellectual forms a bridge between the sharers, which can be the basis…
Joe Trapido: Breaking Rocks: Music, Ideology and Economic Collapse, from Paris to Kinshasa
Breaking Rocks is a volume of the Dislocations series published by Berghahn Books, a series closely associated with Focaal and FocaalBlog. The immense dislocations and suffering caused by…
Living with the End
By Peter Versteeg Recently Chris Cornell, singer of the bands Soundgarden and Audioslave, died. Soundgarden is probably best known for their early nineties song ‘Black Hole Sun’, whic…
Music of Anthropology
For the next issue of Open Anthropology I am assembling a list of articles on music. Consistent with the mission of Open Anthropology, these articles will be open…
Music of Anthropology
Music, Anthropology, Ethnomusicology For the June 2017 issue of Open Anthropology I assembled 15 articles for an issue titled “Music – Anthropology – Life.” Under the new agree…
Music of Anthropology
Music, Anthropology, Ethnomusicology For the June 2017 issue of Open Anthropology I assembled 15 articles for an issue titled “Music – Anthropology – Life.” Under the new agree…
Life Lessons From Prince: Four Things I learned After Four Days at Paisley Park. Part 3
(photo credit 3. Embrace your weird. It’s what changes the world for the better. Prince was certainly not a human you would describe as “ordinary” or “mainstream” or…
Turismo y música, desde la antropología: Identidades en Venta, de Georgina Flores Mercado y Fernando Nava López
Identidades en venta: músicas tradicionales y turismo en México. Reseña, por Gabriela Vargas Cetina Desde el artículo pionero de Theron Núñez en 1963 sobre el turismo en un…
A Double Bass, Tree Rings, and the Truth
Modern science is full of surprising analytical techniques that can be used in a wide variety of remarkable circumstances. My favorite technique is dendrochronology—the study of “tree time.”…
Música mayense de Tabasco y Quintana Roo
Durante el mes de marzo que está terminando tuvimos en la ciudad de Mérida la Feria Internacional de la Lectura de Yucatán (FILEY), organizada por la Universidad Autónoma…