ANTH398D Meeting 8

Business

• Performances?
  
• CRs
  
• Projects
  

Next Week

• Acoustic terminology
  
• Notice connections
  
• Timbre
  
• Descriptions
  
• Genres
  
• Methodology
  
  • Applied acoustics
    
  • Culture and sound
    

Questions on terminology?

Themes

Lecture

Playlist

Music Concepts

• Timbre
  
  • Sound colour
    
  • Voice quality
    
    • Crying voice
      
  • Voice as instrument
    
  • Imitation
    
    • Beatboxing, mouthdrumming, vocal percussion, instrument imitation
      
      • http://www.casa.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=766&Itemid=54
        
• Spectrum
  
• Spectrogram
  

Language concepts

• Sound symbolism ("gl-": glistening, glow)
  
• Arbitrary/motivated
  
• Convention/similarity
  
• Iconic
  
• Metaphorical
  
  • Analogical
    
  • Symbolic
    
• Metadiscursive
  
  • Discourse on discourse
    
  • Applied to music?
    
• Diphthongs
  
  • Standard English, Mandarin...
    
  • Appalachia
    
  • Quebec
    

Boundaries speech and song

• Acoustic
  
• Codified
  
• Universal
  
• Localised
  
• Sprachgesang
  
• Rap
  

Voice on music

• TAMILDAA
  
• Influence semantic description on actual sound
  
• Encoding aesthetics (boomy as undesirable)
  

Sensory Dimensions

• Acoustics
  
• Synesthesia
  
  • Neurological
    
  • Suggestion
    
• Visual
  
• Taste
  

Studio Production

• Sound people
  
• Music specialisation
  
• DJs
  
• Highly produced
  
• Aesthetics
  
• Precise acoustical models
  
• Manu Katché and drums (Bob James and Earl Klugh) Harvey Mason Jr.
  
• Session drummer
  
• Studio session
  
• Diana Ross Coming Out (Nile Rodgers and Bernard Edwards, CHIC)
  

Aesthetics

• Poetic function
  
• Heightened speech
  
• Performance theory
  
• Cultural specificity ("relativism")
  
• Ethnocentrism in aesthetics
  
• American Idol
  
• Beautiful Instrument
  

Classifications

• Granularity
  
• Ethnosemantics
  
• Cognitive anthropology
  

Bakhtin

• Polyvocality
  
• Popularise "voice" as literary technique
  
• Literary fields (comp. lit.)
  
• Writing and power
  
• Identity politics
  

Social concepts

• Shared understanding
  
• Shared experience
  
  • Community of experience
    
  • Community of practise
    
  • Wittgenstein to Eckert
    
• Oral Transmission
  

Social issues

• Dispossessed
  
• Reappropriation
  
• sociolinguistics
  
  • Can't stand him singing in the rain w/ can't stand the sound
    

Ethnography

• Get into cultural sound
  
• Performative dimension
  

Rest

• Musical Transcription
  
• Drama
  
• Grandiose writing
  
• Music writing
  
  • Music critic
    
  • Sounds as if Tom Jones had a kid with k.d. lang
    
  • References
    
  • Show-offs
    

Examples

• A cappella
  
  • I Feel Good 3:19 Bobby McFerrin
    
  • Chameleon 4:52 Vox One
    
  • Maquillages 0:50 La Bande Magnétik
    
  • Always Coca-Cola 1:01 The Acafellas
    
  • Lou dans l'aquarium 3:51 Maurane
    
  • Moondance 3:04 Straight No Chaser
    
  • Don't Stand So Close To Me 4:57 U Penn Off the Beat
    
  • Killing Me Softly 4:41 Tufts University Amalgamates
    
• Own on Voice
  
  • Tiens-toé Ben, J'arrive 2:14 Diane Dufresne
    
  • Buzz 3:16 Diane Dufresne
    
• Country to Prod
  
  • He Stopped Loving Her Today 3:15 George Jones
    
  • (If You're Not in it for Love) I'm Outta Here! 4:29 Shania Twain
    
  • High Lonesome 3:39 Jedd Hughes
    
  • Sexuality 4:13 K.D. Lang
    
• YouTube
  
  • http://youtube.com/watch?v=WmxT21uFRwM 4:40
    
  • http://youtube.com/watch?v=bFPA-41V_Gk 3:33
    
  • http://www.springsteenlyrics.com/lyrics/w/wearetheworld.php
    
  • http://youtube.com/watch?v=wxv2lLzHMm0
    
• Distinguish words
  
  • Brian Wilson 4:45 Barenaked Ladies