Field Guides

Those of you who might do ethnographic fieldwork in the future might enjoy perusing the field guides from the Vermont Folklife Center. Very valuable information, showing some of the connections between ethnographic disciplines, especially in terms of recording technologies.
The Vermont Folklife Center Archive - Field Research Guides :: Vermont Folklife Center Middlebury VT

World Change and Idealism

Just when you think I've been too much of an Apple fanboy for one day...

Think Different - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Because the people who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.

So, the idea here: idealists may in fact be involved in this type of social change Attali and others have been talking about.
Is this what the world really needs? Are the dreamers' dreams worthier than those of the majority?

Threads

• Participation
• Aesthetics
• Identity
• Representation
• Status
• Power
• Subversion
• Commodification
• Value
• Function
• Gender

ANTH398D Meeting 13

PedTech Survey

Tech and learning

Constructivism

Application

Course as a whole

Exploration

Solidifying

Engagement

Attali

Active, dynamic

French intellectual

Polymath

Globalisation

Microcredit

Playlist

Star and Campfire

Pour un instant	3:21	Harmonium	Harmonium
Un musicien parmi tant d'autres	7:01	Harmonium	Harmonium
Dixie	3:26	Harmonium	Si on avait besoin d'une 5e saison

Court to Popular

Sunjata Fasa	9:48	An Be Kelen	We Are One
Auprès de ma blonde	2:42	Aristide Bruand	À Montmartre
Le fiacre	2:43	Jean Sablon	Paris - Café Concert!
Martin de la Chasse-Galerie	3:52	La Bottine Souriante	La Mistrine

Anthems

internationale-fr	3:22
Internationale RU	3:58
I'internationale	5:12	Pete Seeger	Singalong: Live at Sanders Theatre, 1980
Internationale	3:48	Billy Bragg	The Internationale
anacreon	2:18
Oh Canada	1:34	Sarah McLachlan
CBC Hockey Night In Canada	0:33	CBC Canada Ltd.
Gens du pays	2:22	Gilles Vigneault	Chemin faisant - Cent et une chansons (disc 5)
Aux armes et Caetera	3:05	Serge Gainsbourg	Aux Armes et Caetera

Me'shell

Barry Farms	5:20	Me'Shell NdegéOcello	Cookie: The Anthropological Mixtape
Poison Ivy	3:32	Me'Shell NdegéOcello	Batman & Robin
Jabril	6:06	Me'Shell NdegéOcello	Cookie: The Anthropological Mixtape
The Womb	1:25	Me'Shell NdegéOcello	Peace Beyond Passion
Who Is He and What Is He to You	4:49	Me'Shell NdegéOcello	Peace Beyond Passion

Noise

Artist

Specialist

Individual

Not craftsperson or servant

Creative

Living from Art

Patronised

Court

Aristocratic

Bourgeois

Intellectual

Popular

Commodity

Object of sale

Interchangeable

Value

Symbolic

Exchange

Commercial

Political economy

Lateralisation

Capitalisms

French

American

(British?)

(German?)

(Post-National?)

Commercialism

Liberalism

Invisible hand

Resources

Values

Exchange

Economics, Sociology, (European) Anthropology

Adam Smith

Thomas Malthus

Karl Marx

Émile Durkheim

Max Weber

Theodor Adorno

Steps

Printing press

Industrialisation

Revolutions

Romanticism

Modernity

Post-Modernity

Reproduction

Rights

Copyright

Blog.CriticalWorld.Net

Larry Lessig

Creative Commons

Anthony McCann

Napster, RIAA

Big Four (Sony BMG, Warner Music, EMI, Universal)

Noise and Harmony

Physics

Chaos and order

Social control

Metaphor

Pedagogical value

Used by thinkers

Actual influence

History

Music prefiguring change

Music in changing society

Directionality

French exceptionalism

French Revolution

Nationalism

Pride

Society representing itself

Threads

Sound, acoustics

Arts and Sciences

Inter-subjectivity

Dance

Social structure

Subversion

Commodification

Participation

Playing with Music

Once in a while, Peter Gabriel's Real World record label holds contests for music remixes. You download sample packs and try to create an interesting remix with it. Some of these remixes are released by Real World.
To me, this is part of the whole "mashup" era for music and other creative forms. Doing something with music besides listening to you or buying it.
This time, Angélique Kidjo is among the sources for this competition.
Real World Remixed | Home

Jazz and Shallowness

This is kind of sad. What could have been an interesting discussion of music and culture turned out to be shallower than a Ken Burns movie. My guess is, Lydon was taking by the flattery. And the accent.
I'll nurture my own accent but I won't lick anyone's boots.

Is Music Deviant?

ANTH398D – Selected Topics in Anthropology: Ethnomusicology

Meeting 12, March 21, 2007

Deviant

Alexandre Enkerli

enkerli@gmail.com

 

Announcements

Two meetings left

Erin McLeod on April 4

Upcoming shows

Dakan April 11 (Balattou?)

Next week

Dense

Rewritten recently

Political economy

Commodification

Usage rights

Social change

 Music People

Musicker

Musician

Artist

Marginality

Social topology (centre, margins)

Chief, priest, elite

"If we were all like you…"

La marge

Edge

Fringe

Anti-conformism

Think Different

Becker

"Culture" for sociologists

Sociological fieldwork

Vulgarity

Gender

Finance

Language

Being different

Pride

Rebellion

Wealthy families

Evaluation

Self-segregation

Squares antagonism

Ghettoisation

Jazz to commercial (Still active) 

Deviance

Drugs

Sexuality

Ethnicity

Anti-racism

Spirituality and religion

Hollywood's role

Las Vegas, New Orleans, Amsterdam...

Musicians in Society 

Associate with musicians

Role models

Music fans

Music and social change

Dream change

Playlist

A Love Supreme, Part I -- Acknowledgement    7:45    John Coltrane

Pour un ami condamné    4:21    Diane Dufresne    Diane (disc 2: Dufresne)

J'aurais Voulu être Un Artiste    4:21    Starmania

Artistes    3:53    Claude Dubois    Ma Préférence

The Unknown Pedestrian    8:35    Alexandre Burton    Cache 2000 Times Play

Chiaroscuro... ou les jeux de l'ambiguité    17:47    Dhomont, Francis    1st Magisterium of the 16th International Electroacoustic Music Competition, Bourges 1988

Harlem Blues (Acapulco version)    4:47    The Branford Marsalis Quartet    Mo' Better Blues (feat. Terence Blanchard)

Lemon Incest    5:15    Serge Gainsbourg    De Gainsbourg à Gainsbarre (disc 2)

Dreamer    3:31    Supertramp    The Very Best of Supertramp

Imagine    3:04    John Lennon    Lennon Legend: The Very Best of John Lennon

It Can Happen    5:29    Yes    90125

Barry Farms    5:20    Me'Shell NdegéOcello    Cookie: The Anthropological Mixtape

Beatboxing Paris

Anyone doubts that France can be fun?
Notice the reactions...

Concert sauvage dans le métro !
envoyé par lapapsprod

Ian Cross

Sounds like an interesting character. His students are working on diverse topics relevant to anthropology generally. Many of his publications are available as preprints. And, intriguing factoid:

[he] is the only member of the Music Faculty at Cambridge (as far as he is
aware) to have rejected an offer to join the Bay City Rollers.

398mtg10heavy

Next Week

Wanted Levitin

Openness to cultural

Cross

More on Culture

Specifically on human evolution

Anthropological connections

Human adaptation

Auditory cheesecake

Levitin on same

Interviews

Convinced that music adaptive

 
 

From Last Week

Acoustic terminology

Notice connections

Timbre

Descriptions

Genres

Methodology

Applied acoustics

Culture and sound

 
 

Methods

Cognitive science

Cognitive ethnomusicology

Experimentation

Stimuli

Observer effect

Bias

Interest in music genre

Knowledge of music-culture

Ethnography

Exploration

Acoustic analysis

Walk the Line

Objectivity

Universalism

Etic and measured

Perception as causal connection

Subjectivity

Perception

Emic and functional

Meaning as arbitrary association

Heavy as comparative term

 
 

Noisy

Noise as technical term

Noise as aesthetic boundary

Harmonics

Formants

Timbre

 
 

Noise aesthetics

Obscure fundamental frequency (pitch)

Opposed to WAM

Amplification technology

 
 

Music industry

Sales

Charts

Popularity

Reaction

Nostalgia?

Opposition to music industry

Subversion

 
 

Music genres

Genre and personal style

Clothing

Hair

Identity

Primary identity?

Social group

Social class

Working-class aesthetic

Ethnic background

How identify genre

Musical characteristics

Melody

Scales

Modes

Harmony

Rhythm

Compositional technique

Improvisation

Instrumentation

Timbre

Ensemble composition

Recognise people

Influences

Lyrics

Context

Origin

Timbre

Back to soul and throat lozenges

Sound vs. rhythm, melody, etc.

Genre recognition

Know it when hear it

Named genres

Key figures

Artist/band

Discussed genre history

Influences

 
 

Genre classfication

Taxonomy

Russian dolls

"Folksonomy"

Tagging?

Metal meets ska meets bluegrass

Recognise feature

Fusion cuisine

 
 

AMG Metal in Hard Rock

http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=77:655

http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=73:20

Metal

Death, Black, Christian, Speed, Alternative, British, Industrial, Rap-, Progressive, Neo-Classical, Pop-, New Wave of British Heavy, Punk, Stoner, Scandinavian, Goth, Doom, Symphonic Black, Sludge, Power, Hair

Rock

Detroit, Rap-, Aussie-, Album-, Boogie, Arena, Glam, Southern, Hard, Blues-

Others

Glitter, Guitar Virtuoso, Grindcore, Thrash

 
 

Virtuosity

Display of skill

Speed

Guitar

Guitar heroes

Guitar hero game

Air guitar

Other instruments

Bass

Drums

Vocal

Synth as pop

Genre parallels

Bebop

 
 

Characteristics of metalheads?

Headbangers

Hair

Males

Working-class?

European-American

Living Colour

Relatively little influence "abroad" (in "non-Western")?

Younger generation?

Generation Y and older

 
 

Genre's development

Evolution?

Agree on increased heaviness?

Historical periods

Links to social events?

 
 

Attitude

Machismo

Arrogance

Insolence

Anger

Gloom and doom

Gravitas

Seriousness

Playfulness?

Drama

Loudness

 
 

Nina Fales

Perceptual dimensions

Auditory illusions

Ethnography and acoustics

 
 

Harry Berger

Heavy Metal

Phenomenology

Italian promenade

 
 

Opinionated Rock critics

Failed musicians?

Music geeks

Knowledge

Historical developments

Qualify music

Adjectives and adjective-like expressions

Codifying musical taste

Power of suggestion

Vids

http://youtube.com/watch?v=dVUgd8ot6BE

http://youtube.com/watch?v=PRRjUcg8lKA

http://youtube.com/watch?v=1aSUA0isj8o

http://youtube.com/watch?v=ObwjioytHdE

http://youtube.com/watch?v=gJHXTfixkNo

 

http://youtube.com/watch?v=y4tidPqz9GY