Pub Date : 2023-08-11DOI: 10.1080/17411912.2023.2236636
Joshua O. Brew
ABSTRACT Despite the challenges musicians face in different music cultures, the question of how musicians sustain their careers is often not highlighted in music and sustainability studies. This article focuses on the strategies adopted by Okyeame Kwame (OK), one of the pioneers of hiplife music, to sustain his career in the Ghanaian music industry. From an ecology of music viewpoint and twelve months of ethnographic fieldwork in Ghana, this article explores the factors influencing hiplife and musicians within the Ghanaian music industry to enable music career sustenance. This article argues that sustainable music careers are linked to and necessary for the sustainability of music cultures. It also contributes to the ongoing discourse on music and sustainability, particularly about music careers. Overall, the article offers lessons to help musicians and ethnomusicologists explore career sustainability strategies in various contexts and work towards a theory and practice of music career sustainability.
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Pub Date : 2023-08-04DOI: 10.1080/17411912.2023.2236135
Daithí Kearney, A. Commins
ABSTRACT Performances in the USA during the 1970s by three semi-professional groups – The Chieftains, the Siamsa Céilí Band, and Siamsa Tíre – present opportunities to understand developments in Irish traditional music during that period. These developments led to increased commercialisation of the music and tours by Irish performers to the USA in subsequent decades, providing access to a significantly larger market for the genre, within and beyond the diaspora. Underpinning the study is a critical consideration of audiences’ understanding of Irish identity and culture and the reception of Irish cultural performances in the USA at this time. These tours contributed to a reconceptualization of Irish traditional music that engaged new audiences in the USA and incorporated repertoire beyond what American audiences typically associated with Ireland at the time. Developing a professional approach, the groups presented repertoire from the dance music and harp music traditions, Irish language song, and traditional styles of dance. We examine the motivations for the tours, the itineraries and venues, and the material presented, as well as the impact of Northern Ireland politics on each of the groups and their performances.
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Pub Date : 2023-08-03DOI: 10.1080/17411912.2023.2236630
John Garzoli, Tharanat Hin-on
ABSTRACT Relatively little has been published in English about dontri Thai (Thai classical music) and due to the absence of Thai scholars from English language musicological scholarship, most of what has been published was written by non-Thai scholars who have relied upon terms and concepts developed for explaining music with roots in the European tradition. The importation of extrinsic categories conceals indigenous explanatory models and blocks paths connecting Thai musical performance and thought to other areas of Thai culture and social life. This article frames the silence of Thai voices and their ways of knowing as the epistemological dimension of the colonising enterprise, the effects of which have made their way into Thai universities where they have transformed intellectual life and dontri Thai pedagogy. The disciplinary reorientation suggested here aims towards a pluralist model of musicological thought and method. This will open a space for different ways of musical knowing, creating, and theorising to enter from where they may decentre and reshape Western musicological discourse and practice. A rethink of musicology will help align its disciplinary goals with the aims of addressing equality of representation and allow unheard Thai voices to explain their own music in their own terms.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-08DOI: 10.1080/17411912.2023.2215990
Mo Zhang
{"title":"Culturally sustaining pedagogies in music education: expanding culturally responsive teaching to sustain diverse musical cultures and identities","authors":"Mo Zhang","doi":"10.1080/17411912.2023.2215990","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17411912.2023.2215990","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43942,"journal":{"name":"Ethnomusicology Forum","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-06-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45434455","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-04-13DOI: 10.1080/17411912.2023.2199321
Maurice Mullen
{"title":"Staged folklore: the National Folk Theatre of Ireland 1968–1998","authors":"Maurice Mullen","doi":"10.1080/17411912.2023.2199321","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17411912.2023.2199321","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43942,"journal":{"name":"Ethnomusicology Forum","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-04-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43036452","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-03-09DOI: 10.1080/17411912.2023.2182807
Zuzana Jurková
{"title":"Sing and sing on. Sentinel musicians and the making of the Ethiopian American diaspora","authors":"Zuzana Jurková","doi":"10.1080/17411912.2023.2182807","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17411912.2023.2182807","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43942,"journal":{"name":"Ethnomusicology Forum","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-03-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42660777","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-03-01DOI: 10.1080/17411912.2023.2182806
J. Witzleben
{"title":"Piercing the structure of tradition: flute performance, continuity, and freedom in the music of Noh drama","authors":"J. Witzleben","doi":"10.1080/17411912.2023.2182806","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17411912.2023.2182806","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43942,"journal":{"name":"Ethnomusicology Forum","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46405564","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-01-09DOI: 10.1080/17411912.2022.2161592
Lisa Beebe
{"title":"Voices of Vietnam: a century of radio, red music, and revolution","authors":"Lisa Beebe","doi":"10.1080/17411912.2022.2161592","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17411912.2022.2161592","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43942,"journal":{"name":"Ethnomusicology Forum","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-01-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41728585","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/17411912.2023.2168287
Marco Roque de Freitas
ABSTRACT This article outlines the structure and editorial practices of the phonographic industry in postcolonial Mozambique during the so-called ‘socialist period’. It details the production phases, the associated companies and delves into the material conditions and aesthetic values that guided the phonograms published by NGOMA—dubbed as ‘the Mozambican national label’—and their relationship with state-defined cultural policy between 1978 (when production on this series commenced) and 1990 (when vinyl production officially ceased in the country). Several themes are explored, such as predominant topics of song lyrics, repertoires and artists, copyright, women artists, and the restrictions on music production during the civil war. After analysing the main musical trends and acknowledging noteworthy absences, I reflect on NGOMA’s efficiency in the nation-building process.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/17411912.2023.2168286
Francesca R. Sborgi Lawson
ABSTRACT This paper argues that ethnomusicology has trended away from analysing music sound and, consequently, has not distinguished between two distinct-yet-complementary modes of attention, namely the multimodal cognition associated with mousike and the more ‘teleomusical’ (music-directed) attention associated with music. Building on (1) research on music in ancient Greece and China, (2) studies on multimodal perception, (3) the discovery of teleomusical perception in infants, and (4) three contemporary case studies, this paper concludes that mousike and music may be best understood as endpoints on a continuum of musical engagement. Mousike requires attending to the synergistic interaction among competing modalities, such as the linguistic, musical, visual, and kinesthetic, whereas music involves a greater amount of ‘technologizing’ in ‘extending’ musical cognition (extended mind thesis), requiring an attentive shift towards music sound. Founded on stages in infant development, the adult processes of attending to mousike and music must be ascertained through analysis, which can, nevertheless, present both challenges and advantages. The challenges are the biases that can emerge from the music-directed emphasis of ethnomusicological training, which may impede our ability to attend to other competing modalities in performance; the advantages are the revelatory insights that can only come from attending to music sound.
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