Ethnic and Village Unity: Symbolized or Enacted? Lahu Music-Dance and Ethnic Participation in Ban Musoe, Thailand

Fairfield, Benjamin

doi:10.1353/amu.2018.0016

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“…This latter approach bears the most theoretical consonance with the systems approach of Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi whose work emphasises the key issue that creativity involves the act of making a substantive change to a domain in a particular field of practice. Csikszentmihalyi's has most often been cited in ethnomusicology for his concept of 'flow' that a number of colleagues have sensibly suggested can be one of the powerful experiences in making music (Berger 2015;Cooley 2011;Fairfield 2018;Jackson 2000). However, in relation to practice research, his key insight, is that 'creativity' involves not just one actor, but a contextually-sited person, field and domain.…”

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Towards practice research in ethnomusicology

McKerrell

2021

Ethnomusicology Forum

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This paper argues for ethnomusicologists to begin using performance not just as a tool to understand the social and cultural field, but to use music and dance as methods in 'translational' ethnomusicology that focuses upon the translation and communication of artistic performance aesthetics and to theorise a space for research outcomes that are sited in original performative knowledge, explored, produced and delivered through performance itself. The paper briefly surveys some of the key historical discussions of musical performance in/as research and the epistemological challenges that surround a methodologically defined field such as ethnomusicology where there is no central musical canon. The paper introduces the concept of 'emic resistance' where the researcher-performer resists translating their non-verbal, somatic aesthetic musical knowledge into text. The paper concludes by drawing on some of the most recent developments in both ethnomusicological and closely related performance-analytical scholarship to propose a translational model for practice research in ethnomusicology.

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Section: Conclusion: Towards Practice Research In Ethnomusicologymentioning

confidence: 99%

Towards practice research in ethnomusicology

McKerrell

2021

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Ethnic and Village Unity: Symbolized or Enacted? Lahu Music-Dance and Ethnic Participation in Ban Musoe, Thailand

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