Turino's (2008. Music as Social Life: The Politics of Participation. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.) distinctions between live and recorded fields can act as an effective framework for ...furthering academic understandings of how music teaching and learning has been impacted by the shift to online musical practice due to COVID-19 pandemic restrictions. This study investigates the effect this has had on Ethno World, JM-International's programme for folk, world and traditional music. They support youth folk music gatherings in over 23 countries and responded to the restrictions by devising 'The Hope sessions', online tune learning workshops, and the 'Exchange sessions', online folk music collaborations. This research is a hybrid ethnographic investigation of these two programmes. Hybrid ethnography is situated in a digital and physical environment (Przbylski, 2021. Hybrid Ethnography: Online, Offline and In Between. SAGE Publications.). Data was gathered through online participant observation and interviews with artistic mentors and co-ordinators of the online programmes. Findings reveal a tension between values of inclusivity and aesthetic quality suggesting artistic mentors have needed to adjust their goals, conceptions and roles within the musical practice. These findings provide timely insight into how pedagogical approaches change when they shift from an offline to online context.
Today's popular tassa drumming emerged from the fragments of transplanted Indian music traditions half-forgotten and creatively recombined, rearticulated, and elaborated into a dynamic musical genre. ...A uniquely Indo-Trinidadian form, tassa drumming invites exploration of how the distinctive nature of the Indian diaspora and its relationship to its ancestral homeland influenced Indo-Caribbean music culture. Music scholar Peter Manuel traces the roots of neotraditional music genres like tassa drumming to North India and reveals the ways these genres represent survivals, departures, or innovative elaborations of transplanted music forms. Drawing on ethnographic work and a rich archive of field recordings, he contemplates the music carried to Trinidad by Bhojpuri-speaking and other immigrants, including forms that died out in India but continued to thrive in the Caribbean. His reassessment of ideas of creolization, retention, and cultural survival defies suggestions that the diaspora experience inevitably leads to the loss of the original culture, while also providing avenues to broader applications for work being done in other ethnic contexts.
Editorial Atkinson, David
Folk music journal,
01/2024, Letnik:
12, Številka:
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Journal Article
Recenzirano
Ian Russell uses this framework to explore the notion of 'truth' in folk songs, a long-standing focus of scholarly interest going back to the work of Herbert Halpert as long ago as 1939. Songs and ...revivals are well represented in various guises, both English and American, and there are second editions of a couple of books that may already be known to readers, Robin Morton's admirable Folksongs Sung in Ulster, and Michael Brocken's study of the folk revival. ...the journal is proud to record that Professor Theresa Buckland, a member of our Editorial Board, has been elected a Fellow of the British Academy.
Singing the Land: Hebrew Music and Early Zionism in America examines the proliferation and use of popular Hebrew Zionist music amongst American Jewry during the first half of the twentieth century. ...This music—one part in a greater process of instilling diasporic Zionism in American Jewish communities—represents an early and underexplored means of fostering mainstream American Jewish engagement with the Jewish state and Hebrew national culture as they emerged after Israel declared its independence in 1948. This evolutionary process brought Zionism from being an often-polemical notion in American Judaism at the turn of the twentieth century to a mainstream component of American Jewish life by 1948. Hebrew music ultimately emerged as an important means through which many American Jews physically participated in or ‘performed’ aspects of Zionism and Hebrew national culture from afar. Exploring the history, events, contexts, and tensions that comprised what may be termed the ‘Zionization’ of American Jewry during the first half of the twentieth century, Eli Sperling analyzes primary sources within the historical contexts of Zionist national development and American Jewish life. Singing the Land offers insights into how and why musical frameworks were central to catalyzing American Jewry’s support of the Zionist cause by the 1940s, parallel to firm commitments to their American locale and national identities. The proliferation of this widespread American Jewish-Zionist embrace was achieved through a variety of educational, religious, economic, and political efforts, and Hebrew music was a thread consistent among them all.
Focus: Irish Traditional Music, Second Edition introduces the instrumental and vocal musics of the Irish diaspora and Celtic tradition, exploring the essential values underlying these rich musical ...cultures while placing them in broader historical and social context.
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