ETHNOMUSICOLOGYPub Date : 2022-07-01DOI: 10.5406/21567417.66.2.05
Katie Young
{"title":"Hindi Film Songs in the Home: Gendered Experiences of Singing Popular Songs in Tamale, Northern Ghana","authors":"Katie Young","doi":"10.5406/21567417.66.2.05","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5406/21567417.66.2.05","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Beginning in the 1950s, Dagbamba and Hausa women in Tamale listened to Hindi film songs in their homes, via gramophone records and through state-run women's radio programs. Hindi film songs were soon integrated into existing domestic singing practices, including songs meant for domestic labor (tuma-yila) and childcare (biyola-yila). Through an analysis of oral history interviews as well as recorded performances of Hindi film songs sung by women, men, and youth in Tamale, I show how everyday performances of Hindi film songs reveal gendered and intergenerational experiences of domestic space, labor, and social life in Tamale.","PeriodicalId":51751,"journal":{"name":"ETHNOMUSICOLOGY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2022-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42693240","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 : 2022-07-01DOI: 10.5406/21567417.66.2.06
M. Luker
{"title":"Matrix Listening; or, What and How We Can Learn from Historical Sound Recordings","authors":"M. Luker","doi":"10.5406/21567417.66.2.06","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5406/21567417.66.2.06","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 A matrix number is an alphanumeric code that is inscribed into the run-out area of commercially recorded gramophone discs. In this article, I argue that orienting our scholarly listening around matrix numbers—what I call “matrix listening”—can help us reframe our engagement with historical sound recordings as primary sources and thereby lend valuable insights into any number of scholarly questions. It can also help us revisit the issue of materiality in recorded sound specifically and music in general, approaching sound recordings not only as container technologies for “music” as a purified domain but as complexly agentive material things.","PeriodicalId":51751,"journal":{"name":"ETHNOMUSICOLOGY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2022-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70697873","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 : 2022-07-01DOI: 10.5406/21567417.66.2.04
Michael A. Figueroa
{"title":"Post-Tarab: Music and Affective Politics in the US SWANA Diaspora","authors":"Michael A. Figueroa","doi":"10.5406/21567417.66.2.04","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5406/21567417.66.2.04","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 In this article, I answer Anne K. Rasmussen's call for a “migration of ethnomusicology toward the ‘Diasporic Domestic’” (2019) through an ethnographic study of post-tarab, a postmigrant aesthetic practice among musicians and participants in the Southwest Asian and North African diaspora in the United States. In documenting how this emergent musical vernacular promotes a sense of “diasporic affect” among participants through intersubjective musical encounters, I propose a concentric model that accounts for post-tarab's metacognitive, liminal, and experiential dimensions. Ultimately, I argue that an attention to affective politics presents productive challenges to predominant ethnomusicological models of “culture.”\u0000","PeriodicalId":51751,"journal":{"name":"ETHNOMUSICOLOGY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2022-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43087724","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 : 2022-04-01DOI: 10.5406/21567417.66.1.10
Kevin C. Schattenkirk
{"title":"A Queerly Joyful Noise: Choral Musicking for Social JusticeFocus: Choral Music in Global Perspective","authors":"Kevin C. Schattenkirk","doi":"10.5406/21567417.66.1.10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5406/21567417.66.1.10","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51751,"journal":{"name":"ETHNOMUSICOLOGY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47988990","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 : 2022-04-01DOI: 10.5406/21567417.66.1.03
S. Hassan
{"title":"The Social Spaces of Music Traditions in Baghdad before and after Destruction","authors":"S. Hassan","doi":"10.5406/21567417.66.1.03","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5406/21567417.66.1.03","url":null,"abstract":"It is a great honor for me to have been invited to deliver the Charles Seeger Lecture. Besides celebrating the legacy of a humanist who covered many and varied aspects of music, the occasion gives me the opportunity to share with you, through my personal involvement, the state of music and its sound space in my country, Iraq, and particularly in its historical capital, Baghdad, and how it was affected after the destructive war, embargo, and invasion.","PeriodicalId":51751,"journal":{"name":"ETHNOMUSICOLOGY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44046553","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 : 2022-04-01DOI: 10.5406/21567417.66.1.07
V. Virani
{"title":"From Satsaṅg to Stage: Negotiating Aesthetic Theologies and Aspirational Subjectivities in a North Indian Bhajan Competition","authors":"V. Virani","doi":"10.5406/21567417.66.1.07","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5406/21567417.66.1.07","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Malvi nirguṇ bhajans, songs once used primarily for spiritual contemplation, are now being performed onstage in a variety of new contexts. I argue that these contexts are more than commercial opportunities and provide performers the opportunity to engage in new processes of self-authorship that I term “aspirational subjectivities.” These subjectivities amalgamate spiritual frameworks of aspiration derived from mystical poetry, socioreligious frameworks of aspiration inspired by lower-caste activist movements, and socioeconomic frameworks of aspiration spurred by India's neoliberal zeitgeist. This article demonstrates how musicians negotiate spiritual, social, and economic aspirational subjectivities through performance practice to overcome long-internalized stigmas of caste discrimination.\u0000","PeriodicalId":51751,"journal":{"name":"ETHNOMUSICOLOGY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44631703","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 : 2022-04-01DOI: 10.5406/21567417.66.1.06
Polina Dessiatnitchenko
{"title":"The Pearl of Muğam Philosophy: Qəzəl Poetry and Musical Hermeneutics in Independent Azerbaijan","authors":"Polina Dessiatnitchenko","doi":"10.5406/21567417.66.1.06","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5406/21567417.66.1.06","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 The 650th anniversary of Azerbaijan's beloved poet Imadaddin Nasimi (1369–1417) in 2019 was marked by two compositions in which his famous qəzəl “Sığmazam” was set to music. Qəzəl poetry is usually performed in muğam, a branch of traditional Azerbaijani music, and its unorthodox use by pop stars in these two compositions sparked intense debates. In this article, I discuss how the deep significance and instrumentality that qəzəl poetry holds in the post-Soviet context explains the powerful impact of the two pieces. I show how interpretation and imagination of qəzəl meanings in muğam, especially the theme of the beyond, is a way to make social and political realities and articulate post-Soviet subjectivities that emerge through the narrative of loss and in relation to beliefs about the Soviet past.","PeriodicalId":51751,"journal":{"name":"ETHNOMUSICOLOGY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43813828","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 : 2022-04-01DOI: 10.5406/21567417.66.1.16
K. K. Shelemay
{"title":"Studies on a Global History of Music: A Balzan Musicology Project","authors":"K. K. Shelemay","doi":"10.5406/21567417.66.1.16","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5406/21567417.66.1.16","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51751,"journal":{"name":"ETHNOMUSICOLOGY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46162869","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}