Planning Playlists

This link was included in a discussion of course playlists and copyright on the Society for Ethnomusicology's mailing-list.
Smithsonian Global Sound
It could provide a convenient source for playlists in anthropology of music and ethnomusicology courses.

Chicago-Mtl Connection

This could be fun. A Chicago ethnomusicologist is coming to Montreal next month for Baile MTL.
wayneandwax.com � Montreal Masala

Be Heard!

The Canada Council for the Arts is soliciting feedback on its strategic plan. We've talked about the Canada Council on several occasions, including during Alexandre Burton's presentation.
As many of you have a vested interest in the Canada Council's functioning, I encourage you to make your voice heard. They do seem to welcome broad feedback, even though the main consultation process seems to be through an online survey.
Strategic plan consultation - Canada Council for the Arts

Textbooks and Links

Told you about this book, which is mostly geared toward "World Music Survey" courses. The author is putting online some resources to go with his book, including some links to videos on YouTube.
Bakan WORLD MUSIC blog: World music lectures with youtube links
As it turns out, many ethnomusicologists are using YouTube in their courses.

Ethnomusicology References

Concordia RefShare databases
Thought they were already on the blog but here's a (openly available) RefShare database with some references to ethnomusicologically-relevant texts. There's also one with "Supplementary References" as well as other databases that I made for our course.

Recontextualising Pachelbel

As a follow-up to the beatbox version, discussed in class.

Pachelbel everywhere.

Taking music in his own hands.

Going on...

Music and Globalisation: Webradio Version

Turns out CriticalWorld's Webradio player has some cool music to listen to. Contrary to my playlists, these songs are specifically made available by the performing artists.

Folkways at Concordia

Concordia has acquired 246 recordings from the Smithsonian Folkways collection. You can browse the list in this RefWorks RefShare library or search Clues for "smithsonian folkways."
We've talked about this collection, which was tied with Moe Asch and is now managed by Anthony Seeger at the Smithsonian Institute. As an "independent label," Folkways has had a very significant impact on the way diverse musics have been perceived in the U.S. and elsewhere.
As mentioned in class, there has been a podcast series on the Smithsonian Folkways collection.

WAM Online

Concordia just got access to Alexander Street Press's Classical Music Library. We've been talking about "Western Art Music" on occasion and this database can be especially useful to those of you who are interested in this "pure" form of music.
More information about this database (including off-campus access) can be found here.

Free Show: Dakan at Balattou (April 11)

The main band in which I play, Madou Diarra and Dakan, is playing tomorrow night, April 11, at Club Balattou on Saint-Laurent. Haitian singer Dre-D will play first, at 8:30 p.m. and Dakan will be the second act.
Free as in "free beer": no cover charge.
Festival International Nuits d'Afrique de Montréal - World music Musique du monde

Participating Music: Rock Band (Game)

From the creators of the Guitar Hero game franchise (discussed in the course).
Guitar heroes unite; 'Rock Band' is coming | Crave : The gadget blog
The emphasis on collaboration goes well with the whole participatory culture and musicking trend that we talked about during the semester. Not sure how the game will be received but the idea of making it easy for people to play together (as opposed to playing against one another, apparently) is quite interesting.
Another thing: the video game industry is now succeeding where the recording industry is failing. Coincidence? You decide! ;-)

ANTH398Dmtg14

CriticalWorld.Net

Thinking Globalisation Through Music

Blog.CriticalWorld.Net

 
 

World Music

West/Non-West

Creation of Otherness

Appropriation

"Big Wigs"

World Beat

Céline Dion as International

Music marketing

Empress of Russia

Cultural Imperialism?

Fashion Statement

Marketing

Supply and Demand

Cartel

Turkishness

Secular Islam

Internationalism

Europe

Nationalism

Migrants

Fourth-World

Non-U.S. Globalisation

Influences on U.S.

Migrants in Europe

China in Africa

Freeing Music

"Music Wants To Be Free"

Free as in "Beer"

Free as in "Speech"

Free from commodification

Free from genre labels

Free expression

Online Revolution

Napster

Podcasts

MySpace

http://www.myspace.com/karlblau

Calabash Music

AfroGenres

Afrobeat

Afrofunk

Afropop

Afrocelt

 
 

 
 

Social stratification

As class

Cosmopolitanism

Liberal elite

Migrants

Subversion

Reggae

Hip Hop

Ska to Punk

Music industry

State of the Industry

World-music market vs. world music-market

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

Mergers and acquisitions vs. diversification

Independents

Barclay (typo)

Folkways

Les Disques Audiogram

Ringtones

Identity Symbol

Business Models

Music Sales

Merchandising

Concerts

Other Models?

Instruments

Scores

Training

Research

Sponsorship

Patronage

Rights

Larry Lessig

Creative Commons

Anthony McCann

Napster, RIAA

Playlist

World Music

Czarna Kawa	4:31	Jeszcze Raz	Balagane
Zazueira	3:40	Astrud Gilberto	When Jazz Meets Brazil
Azúca De Caña	4:24	Eva Ayllón	Afro-Peruvian Classics: The Soul of Black Peru
The arabic party	2:46	AHMED BIDER	Oiental Belly Dance 2
Axé Axé	4:04	Daniela Mercury	Sol Da Liberdade
River Song	4:57	Bebel Gilberto	Bebel Gilberto
Mas Que Nada	2:33	Astrud Gilberto	Night Trip (Compiled by Toshio

Music in the World

Dancing On The Ceiling	2:54	Lionel Richie	Encore
I Will Love Again	3:45	Lara Fabian	Lara Fabian
I Will Love Again (Ballad Reprise)	4:55	Lara Fabian	I Will Love Again

World of Music

Alby	4:20	Amr Diab and Cheb Khaled	Awedony
Salsa raï	4:09	Faudel	Samra
Bhangra Daddys	5:44	Punjabi By Nature	Here And Now (Disc 3)
Libérez-nous des libéraux	4:22	Loco Locass	Amour oral

World's Musics

Sorry Sorry (Old School Afro dub)	7:23	Femi Kuti	Hôtel Costes, Volume 2: La suite
Wombo Lombo	4:15	Angélique Kidjo	Fifa
Whirl-Y-Reel 2 (Folk Police mix)	5:28	Afro Celt Sound System	Volume 1: Sound Magic

Musicking World

Theme From Shaft (vocal)	4:38	Isaac Hayes	Shaft
Shaft	3:09	Malik Adouane	Buddha-Bar (disc 2: Party)
Goldorak	2:38	Goldorak (Japonais)	TV Shows

Opening the World of Music

The Jug of Punch	3:30	Altan	Island Angel
Stjärnan (The Star)	6:35	Frifot	Frifot
Tanto Tempo	5:44	Bebel Gilberto	Now Sound of Brazil
Sem Contencao	3:07	Bebel Gilberto	The Now Sound of Brazil
Into the Nada	4:14	Karl Blau	Beneath Waves

 
 

Quotes

Empress of Russia

The initial purpose of the meeting was to encourage the retail trade via various concerted efforts as follows.

1. It was agreed that we should create a generic name under which our type of catalogue could be labelled in order to focus attention on what we do. We discussed various names for our type of music(s) and on a show of hands 'World Music' was agreed as the 'banner' under which we would work. Other suggestions were 'World Beat', 'Hot...', 'Tropical...' and various others. It was suggested that all of the labels present would use 'World Music' on their record sleeves (to give a clear indication of the 'File Under...' destination) and also on all publicity material etc. There followed a discussion on whether or not 'World Music' should be presented as a designed logo or simply as a specific type face. Discussion followed as to the extent to which this might engender exclusivity of elitism, thereby begging the question of how any other label/organisation may be able to join the club. The discussion centred around the possible conflict between the short term commercial aim of promoting 'World Music' (sponsored, promoted, and paid for by us), and the longer term aim of establishing 'World Music' as the generic term for this kind of music as with Reggae/Soul/Disco etc. (non-exclusive and open to all). Artists designs solicited for the next meeting.

Pasted from <http://www.frootsmag.com/content/features/world_music_history/minutes/page03.html>

 
 

 
 

 
 

http://arts.guardian.co.uk/features/story/0,11710,1249391,00.html

Robin Denselow How easily did the phrase "world music" come about?

IA There was a vote, but the debate was not so much hey, let's get something trendy, it was to make sure that the term didn't exclude things. For instance, "worldbeat" left out anything without bass and drums. "Ethnic" was too academic.

 
 

Pasted from <http://arts.guardian.co.uk/features/story/0,11710,1249391,00.html>

 
 

CG My reservation about the term "world music" has always been that all the great terms - like jazz, reggae, rock'n'roll - sound musical. They come up in songs. Nobody is ever going to have a song title with that phrase "world music" in it. If you took the word "music" away, and just called it "world", that would be better.

 
 

Pasted from <http://arts.guardian.co.uk/features/story/0,11710,1249391,00.html>

 
 

 
 

Music Market

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_music_market

Nielsen SoundScan reported that the big four accounted for 81.87% of the U.S. music market in 2005:[1]

• Universal Music Group (France based) — 31.71%
  
• Sony BMG Music Entertainment, inc. (Japan/Germany based) — 25.61% (13.83% Sony, 11.78% BMG)
  
• Warner Music Group (USA based) — 15%
  
• EMI Group (UK based) — 9.55%
  
• independent labels — 18.13%
  

 
 

Pasted from <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_music_market>

 
 

According to an IFPI report published in August 2005,[3] the big four accounted for 71.7% of retail music sales:

• Universal Music Group — 25.5%
  
• Sony BMG Music Entertainment — 21.5%
  
• EMI Group — 13.4%
  
• Warner Music Group — 11.3%
  
• independent labels — 28.4%
  

 
 

Pasted from <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_music_market>

Loco Locass

 
 

http://www.locolocass.net/nouvelles/content/view/27/43/

Libérez-nous des libéraux (texte de Batlam et Biz / musique de Chafiik)

 
 

- Prêt pas prêt la charrue Charest, acharnée, charcute en charpie la charpente

De la maison qu'on a mis 40 ans à bâtir

- C'pas toi qui a milité pour Amir Khadir ? -( … )

-Maintenant la table est mise pour 4 ans à pâtir, à pâlir à vue d'œil

Ahuris à la vue d'la bande d'abrutis qui bradent à bride abattue

Qui vendent à rabais, par la bande c'qu'y a pas de prix

Une fois l'mandat fini, le pays ressemble d'un abatis

Coupe sombre, coupe à blanc, Coupe Grey

« Alouette, je te plumerai »

Pis pour couper court au courroux populaire

Patapouf étouffe la foule et légifère à tombeau ouvert

Pis tout sourire il sert la soupe populaire

( C'est ça être solidaire quand on a sacré tout à terre )

Afin de faire taire un argumentaire unique en terre d'Amérique

Mais son affaire, ça fait ben trop l'affaire des régents d'affaires

Du Canada pis du Conseil du Patronat

Bâillon pas bâillon, je raille pareil, le patron des patrons

« Ta yeule Taillon ! »

Heille si le dément démantèlement t'excite tellement

Que c'est comme de la musique à tes oreilles

Comment t'aimes le tintamarre des barbares, dans tes tympans d'avare hagard ?

 
 

Face à la menace de la braderie on brandit

Le poing de la Patrie à la face des bandits

Face à la menace de la braderie on brandit le poing ...

 
 

Libérez-nous des Libéraux !

 
 

J'te l'dis carré, catégorique

Jean Charest, Mike Harris : même combat, même charisme

Même kermesse des biens et services publics

Câlisse faut que ça finisse

La chasse aux bs pour eux c't'une business inespérée

Pis ceux qui dépérissent

Y reste plus qu'à prier Saint Jean-Baptiste

Ça vous apprendra, ma race de séparatistes

Y'a pas de place, où on peut pas faire la piasse

Contrats de performance pour la SGF, pour les CPE, ou les SDF

Un impôt sur la quête? Tiens, ça serait pas bête !

Ça dirige le Québec comme une PME

Comme un pimp ses putes, pour qu'elles alignent les P-I-P-E-S'ti !

Ça se sait ça s'connaît, la clef du succès pour le 24 Sussex

C'est d'assexuer le Québec

Quel beau sujet pour Jean-Claude Labrecque

« À Hauteur de Gnome » ( hauteur de braguette )

Sucer debout, c'est ça se tenir drette...

 
 

zzzzzzzzzzzzip : «Je suis prêt »

 
 

On est loin de « Maître chez Nous »

Maintenant comme jamais, il y a un traître chez nous

Ça s'entend quand il parle comme un derrière de boîte de céréales

Si tu penses me faire taire, tu perds ton temps j'suis intarissable

 « Je vais sous ton ciel, Muse! et je suis ton féal »

 
 

Face à la menace…

Libérez-nous des Libéraux !

 
 

Pendant que le kid de Sherbrooke

Liquide au souk ce qui nous distingue

Au carnaval libéral fédéral, ça bringue dingue

« Viva Canada ! Banana republica ! »

« Mandat sur mandat, on est encore là ! »

Un parti unique, c'est un parti inique, cynique, qui nique

Tout débat démocratique

La confiance de la rue est rompue

Car la cour de l'empereur corrompu accumule les écus

 
 

Et enfin, quand il sent la fin, le monarque débarque

Mais passe le pouvoir à son homme de main

Comme un bon roi Chrétien

Mais selon moi, Martin

Tient du requin ben plus que du dauphin

 
 

L'armateur, arnaqueur, anglo, franco –on sait pus trop-

Joue sur tous les tableaux

C'est l'homme des shaloms et des salamalecs

Mais comment croyez-vous qu'il conçoive le Québec ?

Depuis 10 ans, véritable sous-marin

Soi-disant nous tend la main

Mais mate-le nous démâter

En parquant l'gros paquebot des fédéraux dans nos eaux

C'est sûr il s'insinue comme la moelle dans nos os

En somme ça me semble simple : sous les libéraux

Québec et Ottawa sont les lames d'un ciseau

L'une décrisse les racines du lys

Et l'autre s'immisce au sein de nos services

Ça fait qu'émasculé, pis enculé, le calcul est pas compliqué : on va r'culer

Devant tant d'unifoliés déployés à tous les paliers

Croyez qu'on va tous se noyer, broyés, dans la marée rouge

À moins qu'on ne bouge …

Enweille bouge!

 
 

Libérez-nous des libéraux !

 
 

Les cols bleus, les cols blancs, toutes les écoles confondues

Faut se ruer dans la rue, au printemps comme une crue

Faire éclater notre ras-le-bol, une débâcle de casseroles Trêve de paroles, faites du bruit!

Un charivari pour chavirer ce parti, comme en Argentine, en Bolivie

D'un pôle à l'autre, c'est un constat continental :

À bas le bulldozer libéral !

 
 

Libérez-nous des Libéraux !

Tamtid'lidé délibérez du libellé

Tamtid'lido libérez-nous des libéraux

 
 

Pasted from <http://www.locolocass.net/nouvelles/content/view/24/39>

 
 

 
 

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 !
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