This short review essay aims at answering the question ‘Why was this Colloquium on Drums and Drum Ensembles along the Silk Road Important in these Times’? It was the very first gathering on this topic I experienced. I could meet experts as an amateur since I only recently dealt seriously with music. I wanted to share my ideas and I could learn a lot, too. However, I think that this mutual learning is the most important. The colloquium was to a great part to increase interest in many details about which we do not know yet.
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This article is an analysis of ‘Leuangtengdong’, a Hmong song melody which was recorded and transcribed by Jähnichen in 2000, while documenting a collection of Hmong songs in Laos. This new article is an effort to analyze melodic patterns of the song while considering its historical and social contexts through the personal gaze of the author with a specific background in singing and social experience. It is important to mention that the language sung in the song was unkown and that the emphasis of the analysis is on the musical shape. Finally, there is a conclusion regarding this song fitting in Jähnichen’s hypothesis on Hmong song melodies which states that most musical phrases do not repeat; all lines are different in pitch, order and length; pitch order and intervals can indicate a specific type (of song); singers do not know which type they sing, only analysis shows; and analysis cannot prove ethnic groupings. "Very interesting is the general characteristic of generating absolutely individual melodic lines in each example and in all the other recordings there was no one song with a repetition of a single melodic line. Avoiding repetitions is therefore a remarkable sign of Hmong song melodies.” (Jähnichen, 2011: 126). The given core hypothesis was the point of departure in this analytical article.
{"title":"Leuangtengdong: Analysis of a Hmong Song","authors":"Paula Stefanini","doi":"10.30819/aemr.7-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30819/aemr.7-5","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This article is an analysis of ‘Leuangtengdong’, a Hmong song melody which was recorded and transcribed\u0000by Jähnichen in 2000, while documenting a collection of Hmong songs in Laos. This new article is an effort\u0000to analyze melodic patterns of the song while considering its historical and social contexts through the\u0000personal gaze of the author with a specific background in singing and social experience. It is important to\u0000mention that the language sung in the song was unkown and that the emphasis of the analysis is on the\u0000musical shape. Finally, there is a conclusion regarding this song fitting in Jähnichen’s hypothesis on Hmong\u0000song melodies which states that most musical phrases do not repeat; all lines are different in pitch, order\u0000and length; pitch order and intervals can indicate a specific type (of song); singers do not know which type\u0000they sing, only analysis shows; and analysis cannot prove ethnic groupings. \"Very interesting is the general\u0000characteristic of generating absolutely individual melodic lines in each example and in all the other\u0000recordings there was no one song with a repetition of a single melodic line. Avoiding repetitions is therefore\u0000a remarkable sign of Hmong song melodies.” (Jähnichen, 2011: 126). The given core hypothesis was the\u0000point of departure in this analytical article.\u0000\u0000","PeriodicalId":36147,"journal":{"name":"Asian-European Music Research Journal","volume":"91 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85910247","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This is a review of an event. The event was the ‘British Forum for Ethnomusicology (BFE) Annual Conference, 8-11 April 2021’, which was held online due to actual circumstances of limited mobility. Both writers attended and shaped this review through their personal thoughts based on accessible information.
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In this article, the author will present some research issues as follows: Musical expressions of love for the homeland, Love among men and women, family affection, and attachment to work. The Khmer inhabiting South Vietnam practice all these expressions. In another short section, common characteristics with the music of other ethnic groups in Vietnam include similar instrumental music, scales used and rhythmic structures applied. Thereby, the author reviews categorizations undertaken in the past demonstrating that Khmer music strictly belongs to one ethnic group in the country. Also, musical instruments have been categorized in similar ways, using the Hornbostel-Sachs descriptive tools: Chordophone, Arephones, Idiophones, Membraphones, which are using a variety of scales and modes. It is also said that the inheritance and promotion of the typical values of Khmer music into social life, was a very pragmatic fact, which needs more attention. The use of the term “Folk Music” is only reflecting on a certain approach supported by cultural policies toward minorities from the 1970s to 2010.
{"title":"What is Known About Some Music Features and Song Lyrics of the Khmer Living in the South of Vietnam?","authors":"Nguyen The Truyen","doi":"10.30819/aemr.7-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30819/aemr.7-4","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 In this article, the author will present some research issues as follows: Musical expressions of\u0000love for the homeland, Love among men and women, family affection, and attachment to work.\u0000The Khmer inhabiting South Vietnam practice all these expressions.\u0000In another short section, common characteristics with the music of other ethnic groups in Vietnam\u0000include similar instrumental music, scales used and rhythmic structures applied.\u0000Thereby, the author reviews categorizations undertaken in the past demonstrating that Khmer\u0000music strictly belongs to one ethnic group in the country. Also, musical instruments have been\u0000categorized in similar ways, using the Hornbostel-Sachs descriptive tools: Chordophone,\u0000Arephones, Idiophones, Membraphones, which are using a variety of scales and modes. It is also\u0000said that the inheritance and promotion of the typical values of Khmer music into social life, was\u0000a very pragmatic fact, which needs more attention. The use of the term “Folk Music” is only\u0000reflecting on a certain approach supported by cultural policies toward minorities from the 1970s\u0000to 2010.\u0000\u0000","PeriodicalId":36147,"journal":{"name":"Asian-European Music Research Journal","volume":"69 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85821976","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The Pacific and Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures (PARADISEC) has been digitising recordings of traditional cultural expression, oral tradition, and music (TCE) for 17 years. A major motivation for this work is the return of these recordings to where they were made. On the one hand there is social justice in preserving records of languages that are under-represented in the internet and cultural institutions, and making them accessible in what can be characterised as a postcolonial restitution of these records. On the other hand, if it is first world academics doing this work, it risks being yet another colonial appropriation of Indigenous knowledge. In this paper I explore some of these issues to help set directions both for our own work, and for future similar projects. “From ancient times to the present, disquieting use has been made of archival records to establish, document, and perpetuate the influence of power elites.” (Jimerson, 2007: 254). A quarter of the world’s languages are found in the Pacific. In communities sustained over many hundreds of years by local economies, the globalised world impinges through urbanisation and encroaching metropolitan languages, particularly in media, accelerating language change and language shift. Technology, in the form of computers, digital files, and ways of working with them, is a first world product, access to it is costly, and the interface to it is never in a local language but always in a major metropolitan language. Training and experience in using technology is not easily obtained, leading to a divide between those who are able to use it and those who are consumers of it, typically via expensive internet connections. How can a new kind of archival enterprise “establish, document, and perpetuate” the languages and their speakers, in order to counter what Jimerson calls the influence of power elites.
{"title":"Technology in Support of Languages of The Pacific: Neo-Colonial or Post-Colonial?","authors":"N. Thieberger","doi":"10.30819/aemr.5-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30819/aemr.5-3","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 The Pacific and Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures (PARADISEC) has been digitising recordings of traditional cultural expression, oral tradition, and music (TCE) for 17 years. A major motivation for this work is the return of these recordings to where they were made. On the one hand there is social justice in preserving records of languages that are under-represented in the internet and cultural institutions, and making them accessible in what can be characterised as a postcolonial restitution of these records. On the other hand, if it is first world academics doing this work, it risks being yet another colonial appropriation of Indigenous knowledge. In this paper I explore some of these issues to help set directions both for our own work, and for future similar projects.\u0000\u0000“From ancient times to the present, disquieting use has been made of archival records to establish, document, and perpetuate the influence of power elites.” (Jimerson, 2007: 254). \u0000\u0000A quarter of the world’s languages are found in the Pacific. In communities sustained over many hundreds of years by local economies, the globalised world impinges through urbanisation and encroaching metropolitan languages, particularly in media, accelerating language change and language shift. Technology, in the form of computers, digital files, and ways of working with them, is a first world product, access to it is costly, and the interface to it is never in a local language but always in a major metropolitan language. Training and experience in using technology is not easily obtained, leading to a divide between those who are able to use it and those who are consumers of it, typically via expensive internet connections. How can a new kind of archival enterprise “establish, document, and perpetuate” the languages and their speakers, in order to counter what Jimerson calls the influence of power elites.\u0000\u0000","PeriodicalId":36147,"journal":{"name":"Asian-European Music Research Journal","volume":"10 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85011625","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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