1st Edition
The Music of the Other New Challenges for Ethnomusicology in a Global Age
By Laurent Aubert
Copyright 2007
108 Pages
by
Routledge
108 Pages
by
Routledge
108 Pages
by
Routledge
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We are surrounded by new musical encounters today as never before, and the experience of musics from elsewhere is progressively affecting all arenas of the human conscience. Yet why is it that Western listeners expect a certain cultural and ethnic 'authenticity' or 'otherness' from visiting artists in world music, while contemporary musicians in Western music are no longer bound by such... Read more
1: The Elsewhere of Music Paradoxes of a Multicultural Society; 2: Shared Listening An Ethnomusicological Perpespective; 3: Tradition in Question A Problem of Boundaries; 4: The Paradox of the Concert or The Evocation of Tradition; 5: An Artist's Life or the Challenge of Representation; 6: The Art of Hearing Well A Sketch-Typology of the Listener; 7: The Invention of Folklore or The Nostalgia of Origins; 8: World Music The Last Temptation of the West; 9: The Great Bazaar From the Meeting of Cultures to the Appropriation of the Exotic; 10: Learning the Music of the Other A Transcultural Itinerary; 11: The Fascination of India Lessons from Personal Experience
Biography
Laurent Aubert
