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Engaging Community and Landscape: The Ethnomusicological Approach
As an ethnomusicologist, much of my work to date has involved recording and analysing current musical practices in communities across Scotland and in Canada. By placing musical performance historically and contemporaneously within the various communities, my work has informed an understanding of the ways in which music is used to reflect and reinforce wider occupational and locational identities. As Bruno Nettl (2005) wrote, ‘Ethnomusicologists look at music from beyond a purely historical perspective, and look instead at music within culture, music as culture, and music as a reflection of culture.’By using specific examples from fieldwork among singers, fiddlers and dancers in Northern Scotland and the James Bay region of Canada, the aim of this seminar is to discuss the processes by which specific regional repertoires and styles can develop as both living reminders of a past time, as a response to the cultural and occupational landscape, and as an expression of cultural memory through performance.
- Venue
- MacRobert Building - Room MR055
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