Pub Date : 2017-10-12DOI: 10.2979/JFOLKRESE.54.3.03
M. Shapiro, Omri Ruah Midbar
Abstract: In the postmodern condition, individuals are flooded with images, symbols, and content from various traditions and cultural contexts. How does tradition change in its postmodern uses? How does folklore fill the contemporary need for “authenticity”? This article presents three models of adapting folkloric materials, reflecting different ways of coping with issues such as identity, community, tradition, multiculturalism, and the desire to fill some of the emptiness experienced by individuals in the complex cultural context of the postmodern condition characterizing contemporary Western culture. The liturgical poem “Im Nin’alu”—referenced and shaped differently by Ofra Haza, Madonna, and Offer Nissim—constitutes a test case for examining a variety of models for adapting traditional material, with varying degrees of postmodernity. The first model seeks to experience authenticity through a restoration of, or return to, “tradition.” The second one, shaped in the context of World Music, springs from a spirituality that yearns for an “authentic” experience as manifested through a tradition that belongs to the culture of the Other. The third model, which we term “remix spirituality,” seeks to generate an ecstatic experience in an ultra-postmodern manner.
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Pub Date : 2017-04-23DOI: 10.2979/JFOLKRESE.54.2.03
Michael Frishkopf
Abstract: This article presents an applied ethnomusicological approach to public health promotion, showing how mediated popular music can support better sanitation behavior, by outlining a pilot project conducted in post-conflict Liberia. This approach centers on a method for effective, sustainable, empowering, and ethical collaboration and a theory for positive behavioral change. The method is Participatory Action Research (PAR), a powerful model for applied, collaborative ethnomusicology. The PAR model radically revises the relationship between “researcher” and “researched,” combining committed, egalitarian participation, transformative action, and applied research aimed at positive, sustainable social change, in a continuous spiral of planning, acting, observing, and reflecting. The theory is the social psychological notion of “reasoned action” (Fishbein and Ajzen 1975), as applied to public health by Hubley (1984; 1988; 1993) to underscore the combined roles of beliefs, values, and subject norms to influence behavioral intentions toward health. I augment this theory, highlighting music’s affective potential for shaping belief, value, and subject norms. Taken together, theory and method support what I call “human development,” defined as progress toward collaboratively-set humanly-oriented objectives, via grassroots, egalitarian, empowering collaborations. The pilot project is enacted by a far-flung PAR network, including nationals of Liberia, the USA, and Canada, connecting creative music/video production, ethnomusicology, public health, and development. Project outputs include a music video and a documentary video, linked through common sounds, images, and purpose. Each is “double-sided,” seeking to change behavior in both the developing and developed worlds. The article assesses project limitations and charts strategies to address them in the future.
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Pub Date : 2017-04-23DOI: 10.2979/JFOLKRESE.54.2.05
Niyati Dhokai
In this article, I highlight ways in which ethnomusicology-centered skills can be adapted for educational, practice-based, and research-based cross-disciplinary settings where topics of music and health intersect, by focusing on recurring issues that I have encountered and negotiated as an ethnomusicologist and music educator. These issues include determining the role of the ethnomusicologist in collaborative settings and developing awareness of cross-disciplinary considerations. Through discussion of project design and methodology, I explain how I have negotiated post-injury and program-based needs through practical applications of ethnomusicology to facilitate community integration through music in a community-based rehabilitation program for individuals recovering from traumatic brain injury.
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Pub Date : 2017-04-23DOI: 10.2979/JFOLKRESE.54.2.04
A. Okigbo
South Africa is currently considered the epicenter of the global HIV/AIDS pandemic, but it has also witnessed several other disease epidemics in the past, such as smallpox, which plagued the region for nearly two centuries between 1713 and the late nineteenth century, and the 1918 influenza outbreak. This article, which is based on archival and ethnographic study, is a historiography of music in times of epidemics in South Africa. It offers a perspective on how persistent sociocultural conditions can account for regularities in people’s responses to disease. In juxtaposing case studies of musical responses to historical smallpox and influenza epidemics with the current use of music in the context of HIV/AIDS, this article explores the meanings that people make of their experiences of diseases. By positing a close reading of the song examples, it suggests that sociocultural factors such as race and ethnicity, economics and spirituality, comprise important frameworks for constructing meanings around the issue of health and in the context of epidemics.
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Pub Date : 2017-04-23DOI: 10.2979/JFOLKRESE.54.2.01
Theresa A. Allison, Daniel B. Reed, Judah M. Cohen
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Pub Date : 2017-04-23DOI: 10.2979/JFOLKRESE.54.2.06
M. S. Reigersberg
Abstract: This article explores the ways in which the relationships between music, health, wellbeing, medicine, and ethnomusicology are being researched internationally. It shows that while there is a widespread global interest among a variety of disciplines in studying these relationships, there is still an absence of disciplinary and international collaboration. This absence of collaboration, I argue, is caused by a variance between disciplines and countries in epistemologies, modes of dissemination, professional jargon, and national languages. This diversity of professional practice influences the sharing of information about music and wellbeing, often slowing down the creation of new knowledge, potentially to the detriment of those receiving musical care. Here I present the results of a short participatory action research study investigating the professional practices of ethnomusicologists, (neuro)psychologists, and music therapists researching the links between music and wellbeing. My findings are based on observations made in the United Kingdom, Austria, Finland, the United States, and Australia. I conclude by urging researchers to examine their practices and epistemologies reflexively, and not to assume other disciplines are homogenous. I also suggest that, for ethnomusicologists, grounded theory and community music therapy might be areas for future collaboration and that a proactive approach is needed to ensure knowledge about the links between music, health, and wellbeing are examined at a faster, more collaborative pace.
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Pub Date : 2017-04-23DOI: 10.2979/JFOLKRESE.54.2.02
A. Quadros
Abstract: In general, both music and healthcare have been professionalized, and the major focus of collaborative projects between these two fields has been upon arts-based interventions carried out in clinical settings and evaluated in terms of clinical outcomes. Recently, however, more attention has been paid to the contribution of community arts to primary care and preventive care. On the public health side, the conversation between music, the arts, and health has been moving from the clinic to the community, from clinical medicine with its focus on individual therapeutic interventions to public health with its focus on community development and community capacity building. On the arts side, there is a corresponding move from concert hall, gallery, and stage toward the community. I argue that the health professions have not yet realized the potential of music and the other arts to mobilize poor communities and to provide meaningful contexts for health education and empowerment. I also contend that artists and ethnomusicologists have a social justice responsibility to work together with public health professionals to explore fully the power of personal and community agency, self-knowledge, and social change in dealing with extreme health problems. I assert that the capacity of music, with other arts, to communicate in uniquely complex and subtle ways offers significant potential for health in ways that other modalities do not. In order to illustrate this emerging field, I will present examples of existing projects and interventions.
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Pub Date : 2017-01-01DOI: 10.2979/JFOLKRESE.54.3.05
Ríonach uí Ógáin, Kelly J Fitzgerald, L. Mathúna
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