ETHNOMUSICOLOGYPub Date : 2024-02-01DOI: 10.5406/21567417.68.1.17
Ouyang X. Lei
{"title":"Undaunted: Into the Open, Raging Asian Womxn Taiko Drummers","authors":"Ouyang X. Lei","doi":"10.5406/21567417.68.1.17","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5406/21567417.68.1.17","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51751,"journal":{"name":"ETHNOMUSICOLOGY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2024-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139967119","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}
ETHNOMUSICOLOGYPub Date : 2024-02-01DOI: 10.5406/21567417.68.1.08
Esther Viola Kurtz
{"title":"Community in Syntony: Theorizing Axé in Capoeira Angola and Rural Samba of Backland Bahia, Brazil","authors":"Esther Viola Kurtz","doi":"10.5406/21567417.68.1.08","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5406/21567417.68.1.08","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Capoeira, Candomblé, and samba—three Afro-Brazilian expressive forms—are indelibly linked in the Brazilian popular imaginary, frequently listed in tandem in tourist brochures and academic literature alike. Yet their relationship remains undertheorized. This article explores the multisensory interconnections among the practices from the perspective of capoeira Angola and samba practitioners in backland Bahia. Practitioners consistently referred to Candomblé when describing their experiences of music and movement, revealing that the practices cultivate shared ways of orienting bodies to sound. More specifically, although the vital force of axé is a concept from Candomblé, practitioners experience axé as affective sound vibrations also resonating in capoeira and samba, bringing their bodies into motion and syntony (aligning frequencies). Ultimately, I argue that axé also resonates beyond the space-times of capoeira events, cohering a community premised upon shared ways of sensing that are grounded in Afro-Brazilian spirituality.","PeriodicalId":51751,"journal":{"name":"ETHNOMUSICOLOGY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2024-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139966287","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}
ETHNOMUSICOLOGYPub Date : 2024-02-01DOI: 10.5406/21567417.68.1.15
Jessica C. Hajek
{"title":"Chocolate Surrealism: Music, Movement, Memory, and History in the Circum-Caribbean","authors":"Jessica C. Hajek","doi":"10.5406/21567417.68.1.15","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5406/21567417.68.1.15","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51751,"journal":{"name":"ETHNOMUSICOLOGY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2024-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139967001","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}
ETHNOMUSICOLOGYPub Date : 2024-02-01DOI: 10.5406/21567417.68.1.13
Liu Keyi
{"title":"Song King: Connecting People, Places, and Past in Contemporary China","authors":"Liu Keyi","doi":"10.5406/21567417.68.1.13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5406/21567417.68.1.13","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51751,"journal":{"name":"ETHNOMUSICOLOGY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2024-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139965840","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}
ETHNOMUSICOLOGYPub Date : 2024-02-01DOI: 10.5406/21567417.68.1.04
Brian Diettrich
{"title":"“The Leaves of Our Flag Surrounding the World”: Barbara B. Smith and the Sovereign Voices of a Pacific Trust Territory, 1958–1964","authors":"Brian Diettrich","doi":"10.5406/21567417.68.1.04","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5406/21567417.68.1.04","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This article explores the songs and dances recorded by Barbara B. Smith in the United Nations Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, the former US-administered region of Micronesia. The article examines Smith's collaborations with Micronesians in Hawai‘i in the late 1950s and early 1960 as well as her 1963–1964 recording project undertaken across the Trust Territory. In exploring Micronesian voices within the political machinations of the time, the article investigates the entanglement of ethnomusicology within the American colonial administration of the Pacific. With the 1963–1964 recordings as a window into this period, I listen for Indigenous autonomy that sounds out from these historical reproductions. I contend that the broader contribution of 1960s ethnomusicology in Micronesia lies in the sonic chronicle of sovereign voices, in which communities sang together and past American colonial interventions in the Pacific.","PeriodicalId":51751,"journal":{"name":"ETHNOMUSICOLOGY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2024-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139966465","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}
ETHNOMUSICOLOGYPub Date : 2024-02-01DOI: 10.5406/21567417.68.1.07
Uri Dorchin, Miranda Crowdus
{"title":"Mizrahi Rap in Israel: Ethnicity and Intertextuality in the Cosmopolitan Post-Genre Era","authors":"Uri Dorchin, Miranda Crowdus","doi":"10.5406/21567417.68.1.07","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5406/21567417.68.1.07","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This article uses ethnography and music analysis to compare the intertextuality of Mizrahi music and rap by two generations of hip hop artists in Israel. The perceived compatibility of the two genres is often motivated by apparent similarities between Mizrahiness and Blackness as two ethno-racial categories associated with disenfranchisement. We argue that varied musical approaches to combining Mizrahi music and rap reflect the ways that different generations have negotiated local and global cultural spaces. Early rappers in Israel, who regarded Mizrahi music and rap as two distinct genres, tended to compose a rather mechanistic juxtaposition between them that suggests a perceived ontological gap between the local and the global. Conversely, contemporary rappers have been socialized in and make use of a virtual and borderless musical environment, a realm that arguably breaks down the logic of coherent musical genres and the cultural and spatial compartments they once seemed to occupy. This is reflected in their typical compositional style, which merges the two genres into a seamless, indistinguishable form. The case of “Mizrahi rap” demonstrates how global trends are inscribed into local negotiations of ethnicity and how the perceived relatedness between ethnic and racial categories (i.e., Mizrahiness and Blackness) defines new conceptions of the global sphere itself.","PeriodicalId":51751,"journal":{"name":"ETHNOMUSICOLOGY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2024-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139965671","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}
ETHNOMUSICOLOGYPub Date : 2024-02-01DOI: 10.5406/21567417.68.1.03
P. V. Bohlman
{"title":"On Survival","authors":"P. V. Bohlman","doi":"10.5406/21567417.68.1.03","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5406/21567417.68.1.03","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 An expansion of my 2022 Charles Seeger Lecture, “On Survival” unfolds as a set of reflections on the moment in the history of ethnomusicology that has followed intense periods of response to the COVID-19 pandemic and of racial self-reckoning worldwide. While examining common concerns and practices for ethnomusicology as a field, I do not propose a new theory or method, but rather I argue for the unity of the field rather than the separation of approaches into subdisciplines. The common ground of the present ethnomusicological moment, like that of the past to which ethnomusicologists now return, lies in a fundamental concern for ethical practice and moral purpose. Throughout the article, I draw upon case studies, many from my own ethnographic and historical work, especially from my research in and performances of music of the Shoah, to claim affinity between the fields of ethnomusicology and moral philosophy. These affinities emerge from common engagement with the moral dimensions of survival: trauma, mourning, border crossing, goodness, cohabitation with others in the Anthropocene, transcendence.\u0000 The video clips are available here: https://files.press.uillinois.edu/journals/supplemental/ethno/seeger_lecture/","PeriodicalId":51751,"journal":{"name":"ETHNOMUSICOLOGY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2024-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139966361","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}
ETHNOMUSICOLOGYPub Date : 2024-02-01DOI: 10.5406/21567417.68.1.10
Neil R. Coulter
{"title":"Congregational Music, Conflict and Community","authors":"Neil R. Coulter","doi":"10.5406/21567417.68.1.10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5406/21567417.68.1.10","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51751,"journal":{"name":"ETHNOMUSICOLOGY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2024-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139966159","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}