Centring embodied practice in African music studies: creative alternatives

IF 0.2 1区艺术学 0 MUSIC

Ethnomusicology Forum Pub Date : 2022-01-02 DOI:10.1080/17411912.2022.2050274

Kgomotso Moshugi, Evans Netshivhambe, Brett Pyper

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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.

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以具体实践为中心的非洲音乐研究：创造性的替代方案

本文比较了两个最近的博士项目，探讨了在不断追求非洲(民族)音乐学方法的背景下，以作者各自的音乐实践为中心的启示。展望作者作为音乐家/舞蹈家的终身体现观点，他们报告寻找不太规范的学科参考点，以此为基础来理解这些理解，并分享发现有益的方法(即，创造性系统理论和创造性音乐学)。尽管参与了不同的实践记录和曲目(与源自传统舞蹈原则的艺术音乐组成相比，非洲赞美诗中的音乐安排)，但他们展示了如何从各自的实践开始，并以各自的实践为中心，使当地的特殊性为他们的研究带来独特的新见解，这些见解可能会引起更广泛的学术界的兴趣。

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Ethnomusicology Forum MUSIC-

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1.10

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25.00%

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期刊介绍： 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.