Musical Intimacies and Indigenous Imaginaries considers several genres of music and dance currently performed in First Nations and Métis communities in the western Canadian province of Manitoba, ...including fiddling, step dancing, country music, and gospel song. It also explores some of the contexts in which these genres are performed, including concerts, coffeehouses, dance competitions, and funerary wakes. Such gatherings open up spaces for the expression of distinctive modes of northern Algonquian sociability; they also play a role in the perpetuation of a distinctive indigenous public culture. They are in this sense interstitial sites: at once places of intimate engagement and spaces oriented to an imagined public of strangers. This volume looks at how Manitoban aboriginal musicians engage with musical intimates and mass-mediated audiences; how they negotiate the possibilities mass mediation affords—in some cases making enthusiastic use of broadcasts and recordings, and in others insistently prioritizing social intimacy; and how, in doing so, they extend and elaborate indigenous sociability.
Migrating Music considers the issues around music and cosmopolitanism in new ways. Whilst much of the existing literature on 'world music' questions the apparently world-disclosing nature of this ...genre - but says relatively little about migration and mobility - diaspora studies have much to say about the latter, yet little about the significance of music.
In this context, this book affirms the centrality of music as a mode of translation and cosmopolitan mediation, whilst also pointing out the complexity of the processes at stake within it. Migrating music, it argues, represents perhaps the most salient mode of performance of otherness to mutual others, and as such its significance in socio-cultural change rivals - and even exceeds - literature, film, and other language and image-based cultural forms.
This book will serve as a valuable reference tool for undergraduate and postgraduate students with research interests in cultural studies, sociology of culture, music, globalization, migration, and human geography.
This multi-authored article offers accounts of how programmes for teaching music theory within the Western-notated tradition were created in two UK higher education institutions. These accounts are ...followed by two more discursive reflections on the nature and purpose of music education today, advocating the importance of listening skills and inclusive pedagogies. The article is framed by an introduction and conclusion contextualising the issues raised in relation to a selection of prior contributions to Music Education Research and comparing approaches to music literacy and theory teaching as represented in recent music theory conferences in the UK and the United States.
...the following pages consider the work-in-progress of musicians who, while talented and engaged, are relatively inexperienced. The foregoing discus- sion suggests that, as musicians work together, ...their musical and verbal interactions index both the immediate context of performance and a broader musical public.16 In deploying musical materials, aesthetic discourses, and evocative icons, they simultaneously negotiate their positionality with re- spect to one another and to an imagined public of fellow jazz players. ...the words "Put your soul into that... like Miles" affirmed the prominent place Davis occupies within the jazz canon and pointed to a stereotypical or iconic association between sounded (black) Americanness and the con- cept of soul.
EDITORS' INTRODUCTION Toynbee, Jason; Dueck, Byron
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Black culture in the United Kingdom is therefore more marginal and much newer than in the U.S. It is still also a recently migrant culture, one that retains strong links to the regions from which ...black people's parents and grandparents have come, especially the Caribbean.1 This provokes the question (asked in other places around the world as well, of course) of whether we can talk about black culture, in this case jazz, as such. ...Byron Dueck examines another Tomorrow's Warriors project, the multicultural Biggish Band.
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