{"title":"Centring embodied practice in African music studies: creative alternatives","authors":"Kgomotso Moshugi, Evans Netshivhambe, Brett Pyper","doi":"10.1080/17411912.2022.2050274","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The two recent doctoral projects compared in this essay explore the affordances of centring the authors’ respective musical practices against the backdrop of the ongoing quest for African (ethno)musicological approaches. Foregrounding the life-long embodied perspectives of the authors as musicians/dancers, they report on seeking out less canonised disciplinary reference points on which to ground these understandings, and share the approaches found to be conducive (viz., creative systems theory and creative musicology). Despite attending to different practice registers and repertoires (musical arrangements within African hymnody compared with art music composition derived from traditional dance principles), they demonstrate how starting from, and centring, their respective practices has allowed local specificity to bring distinctive, new insights to their research in ways that may be of interest to a wider academic community.","PeriodicalId":43942,"journal":{"name":"Ethnomusicology Forum","volume":"31 1","pages":"70 - 100"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2000,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Ethnomusicology Forum","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17411912.2022.2050274","RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"MUSIC","Score":null,"Total":0}
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ABSTRACT The two recent doctoral projects compared in this essay explore the affordances of centring the authors’ respective musical practices against the backdrop of the ongoing quest for African (ethno)musicological approaches. Foregrounding the life-long embodied perspectives of the authors as musicians/dancers, they report on seeking out less canonised disciplinary reference points on which to ground these understandings, and share the approaches found to be conducive (viz., creative systems theory and creative musicology). Despite attending to different practice registers and repertoires (musical arrangements within African hymnody compared with art music composition derived from traditional dance principles), they demonstrate how starting from, and centring, their respective practices has allowed local specificity to bring distinctive, new insights to their research in ways that may be of interest to a wider academic community.
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Articles often emphasise first-hand, sustained engagement with people as music makers, taking the form of ethnographic writing following one or more periods of fieldwork. Typically, ethnographies aim for a broad assessment of the processes and contexts through and within which music is imagined, discussed and made. Ethnography may be synthesised with a variety of analytical, historical and other methodologies, often entering into dialogue with other disciplinary areas such as music psychology, music education, historical musicology, performance studies, critical theory, dance, folklore and linguistics. The field is therefore characterised by its breadth in theory and method, its interdisciplinary nature and its global perspective.
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