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Mar 3, 2023 · Music is a source of cultural understanding and a site for cultural exchange. As a multimodal activity that invites cognitive, emotional, social, and physical engagement, music provides an embodied and situated experience that is deeply intertwined with cultural traditions and attitudes (DeNora, 2000).
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Aug 14, 2018 · Research about music has generated diverse beliefs, views, and theories that explore its nature and meaning. A recurring theme in the early literature on this topic is the view that the particular cultural context that surrounds a distinct music practice influences the music produced within those cultural boundaries (Herndon & McLeod, 1982; Lomax, 1976; Merriam, 1964; Nettl, 1992).
- Georgina Barton
- 2018
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Abstract. ‘Music as culture’ examines the connections that ethnomusicologists make between music and culture. Culture, in an ethnomusicologist sense, refers to all forms of human knowledge, creativity, and values, and to their expression in various activities. Ethnomusicologists believe that humans make music as a constituent element of ...
Jun 25, 2020 · Music has been a productive area of research for cultural analysis because, ‘Music is a mode of interaction that expresses and constitutes social relations . . . and that embodies cultural assumptions regarding these relations’ (Roy and Dowd, 2010: 184). In the sociology of music literature, a core problem is how to conceptualize and ...
- John Sonnett
- 2021
The musical analysis of culture may raise the eyebrows a little higher, but perhaps what the late Adam Krims used to say helps, that music is perhaps the best lens through which we can look at culture, or as I like to reformulate this idea, the best funnel through which we can hear culture. Studying music in its cultural frames on a potentially ...
Introduction. Mainstream notions play an important role in music-cultural analysis. But instead of being deployed as a particular lens through which to advance understanding of contemporary music's characteristics, meanings and functions, the concept of the mainstream has often only been used to demarcate, rather vaguely, the binary other to the authentic, honest, subversive, and creative ...
Feb 12, 2019 · Two assumptions were fundamental to much of the work of the founding figures of comparative musicology: 1. Cultures evolved from simple to complex, and as they do so they move from primitive to ...
