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= Definitions and concepts, reviewed & continued = | |||
=== Reviewed === | |||
* World music | |||
* Ethnomusicology (Ethno-musicology, or ethnomusic-ology) | |||
* Alan Lomax | |||
* Comparative musicology vs. fieldwork (Lomax did both!) | |||
* Ethnocentrism. (Question: is "music" itself ethnocentric?) | |||
* Analyzing world music | |||
** Cantometrics | |||
** [https://www.artsrn.ualberta.ca/fwa_mediawiki/images/d/d9/Music_analysis_and_rep.pdf A set of musical parameters] | |||
== | === Continued === | ||
* Etic vs. Emic views VS. Outsider vs. Insider views. (Thought question: is any frame truly "etic"? How do you see Cantometrics?) | |||
* Etic vs. Emic VS. Outsider vs. Insider. Thought question: is | * Source vs. Reference, critical thinking about representations. (Though question: is there any true reference?) | ||
* Source vs. Reference, critical thinking about representations. | |||
** A pure reference contains true assertions | ** A pure reference contains true assertions | ||
** A pure source cannot be assumed to contain any true assertions; all we can assert is that its creator --operating in a context -- asserts something (which may be false) | ** A pure source cannot be assumed to contain any true assertions; all we can assert is that its creator --operating in a context -- asserts something (which may be false) | ||
** Critical thinking (critique) moves source towards reference, through widening circles of context. | ** Critical thinking (critique) moves source towards reference, through widening circles of context. | ||
** Consider the [https://drive.google.com/a/ualberta.ca/file/d/0B1kvIc4osA_FU3Z4QWU4ekMxMXM/view?usp=sharing work of Austrian psychologist and musicologist Richard Wallaschek] (1860-1917), who wrote on comparative musicology and the origins of music. Its assertions may be false. But that the author said these things is true; that these things may have been believed in his contemporary Vienna is true, etc. | ** Consider the [https://drive.google.com/a/ualberta.ca/file/d/0B1kvIc4osA_FU3Z4QWU4ekMxMXM/view?usp=sharing work of Austrian psychologist and musicologist Richard Wallaschek] (1860-1917), who wrote on comparative musicology and the origins of music. Its assertions may be false. But that the author said these things is true; that these things may have been believed in his contemporary Vienna is true, etc. | ||
Latest revision as of 19:54, 12 September 2017
Definitions and concepts, reviewed & continued
Reviewed
- World music
- Ethnomusicology (Ethno-musicology, or ethnomusic-ology)
- Alan Lomax
- Comparative musicology vs. fieldwork (Lomax did both!)
- Ethnocentrism. (Question: is "music" itself ethnocentric?)
- Analyzing world music
- Cantometrics
- A set of musical parameters
Continued
- Etic vs. Emic views VS. Outsider vs. Insider views. (Thought question: is any frame truly "etic"? How do you see Cantometrics?)
- Source vs. Reference, critical thinking about representations. (Though question: is there any true reference?)
- A pure reference contains true assertions
- A pure source cannot be assumed to contain any true assertions; all we can assert is that its creator --operating in a context -- asserts something (which may be false)
- Critical thinking (critique) moves source towards reference, through widening circles of context.
- Consider the work of Austrian psychologist and musicologist Richard Wallaschek (1860-1917), who wrote on comparative musicology and the origins of music. Its assertions may be false. But that the author said these things is true; that these things may have been believed in his contemporary Vienna is true, etc.