Wednesday, February 28, 2007

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

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

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