Journal•ISSN: 1741-1912
Ethnomusicology Forum
Taylor & Francis
About: Ethnomusicology Forum is an academic journal published by Taylor & Francis. The journal publishes majorly in the area(s): Popular music & Musical. It has an ISSN identifier of 1741-1912. Over the lifetime, 470 publications have been published receiving 3511 citations.
Topics: Popular music, Musical, Ethnomusicology, Dance, Musicology
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors introduce the four case studies in the volume by outlining salient issues relating to musical instruments and gender, and examine various ways in which gendered meanings are invested in instruments, highlighting issues such as male exclusivity, male division of labour, gendered space, and male control over technology.
Abstract: This article introduces the four case studies in the volume by outlining salient issues relating to musical instruments and gender. The basis of argument is that gendered meanings are constructed within relationships between humans and musical instruments. The article first examines various ways in which gendered meanings are invested in instruments. Consideration is then given to the general question of male dominance over instrumental musicianship, highlighting issues such as male exclusivity, gendered divisions of labour, gendered space, and male control over technology. Some typical female relationships with instruments are outlined, whereby certain instruments are deemed to be suitable or acceptable for women. Finally, the construction of gender by instrumentalists is related to issues of sexuality, gender role-reversals, and enactments that transcend gender.
80 citations
TL;DR: In this article, an ethnographic account of jazz music in Athens is presented, focusing on private interviews with musicians and revealing the discourses of cosmopolitanism invoked through local jazz music-making.
Abstract: This paper presents an ethnographic account of jazz music in Athens. The small scene under scrutiny is mainly populated by professional session instrumentalists of the Greek popular music scene who perform jazz as a side activity for their own pleasure. In the process, they construct a conceptual dichotomy between ‘work’ and ‘play’. Drawing on the author's extended involvement in this scene, and focusing on private interviews with musicians, this article unveils the discourses of cosmopolitanism invoked through local jazz music-making. The ethnographic material presented aims to illustrate how even a small subculture can serve as a terrain for contesting cosmopolitan imaginaries.
53 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors demonstrate how Brazilian hip-hop participants mediate marginality through discourses and practices of negritude, and analyse the competitive processes with which Sao Paulo hip-hoppers articulate sound and story to a dynamic sense of personhood and social collectivity.
Abstract: In this article I demonstrate how Brazilian hip-hop participants mediate marginality through discourses and practices of negritude. By taking a historical approach, I analyse the competitive processes with which Sao Paulo hip-hoppers articulate sound and story to a dynamic sense of personhood and social collectivity. The article contributes to general theories of music and identity as well as to the present literature on the “reterritorialization” of hip-hop culture throughout the contemporary world.
53 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors trace how diversity discourses were put into practice by the city government of Buenos Aires, Argentina, following the devastating 2001 Argentine economic crisis, taking the first Buenos Aires International Music Fair (BAFIM) as a case study.
Abstract: Diversity has become a key discourse of international cultural policy-making following the neoliberal turn This article traces how diversity discourses were put into practice by the city government of Buenos Aires, Argentina, following the devastating 2001 Argentine economic crisis, taking the first Buenos Aires International Music Fair (BAFIM) as a case study A key event within broader policies aimed at developing the local music industry as both an economic and a cultural resource, BAFIM was designed to use diversity as a means of reconfiguring the economic, social, and cultural domains of the city While the fair opened fields of action in which subjects could make newly productive moves, a critical examination of the fair also demonstrates that diversity, in and of itself, is not a democratising paradigm
53 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the relevance of an ethnomusicological commitment to musical ethnicity in studying diasporic music-making is explored, pointing out some of the ways in which ethnomasicologists have negotiated the contradictions between asserting the historical specificities of diaspora and avoiding the rigidities of the essentialisms.
Abstract: This article outlines some key issues in the study of musical performance in diasporic contexts and introduces the case studies in this volume. It explores contrasting approaches to ‘difference’ and representations of ‘otherness’ in the multicultural society to question the relevance of an ethnomusicological commitment to musical ethnicity in studying diasporic music-making. It points out some of the ways in which ethnomusicologists have negotiated the contradictions between asserting the historical specificities of diaspora and avoiding the rigidities of diasporic essentialisms. Queyson's notion of ‘calibration’ (concerned with the disjunctures between representations and social realities) is considered in relation to ethnographic details on Carnival performances in a museum space as a way of theorizing contradiction.
44 citations