Difference between revisions of "Notes on commodification and mediaization of religious music"
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− | * Differentiation: Corresponds to complex industrial society, monetary economy, division of labor | + | * Differentiation: Corresponds to complex industrial society, monetary economy, division of labor, immigrant society (presenting problems of diversity) |
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Revision as of 11:30, 28 March 2006
Arc of this course:
(1) "Traditional" topics: holistic world-view. Concepts of "music" and "religion" are often not emic, hence artificial with respect to belief and practice.
- Recitation of sacred texts
- Chanting devotions
- Production of emotion (trance)
- Relation between religious and aesthetic expressions
- Relation between religious music and cosmology
- Religious discourse about music
- General: Ethnomusicological focus on relation between (etic) music and culture-society (religion, etc.)
(2) Differentiation of systems: art, religion, law, science, etc. within discourse and practice (emic difference)
- In particular: Music system is differentiated from religious system within a "secular" society (meaning: a broader system transcending these subsystems)
- Differentiation: Corresponds to complex industrial society, monetary economy, division of labor, immigrant society (presenting problems of diversity)
New topics arise:
- Religion in the music system (e.g. Christian rock, Christian jazz - in concert)
- Music in the religious system (e.g. Christian rock, jazz - in church)
- General impact of religion on music system
- General impact of music on religious sytem
- Media (technology), commodification (globalization)
- Technology (concomitant of industrial society) enables media, music media, music mediation, accentuating the differentiation of systems.
- Media system arises (media/techno-financial and global)
- technology
- media channels
- production
- distribution
- consumption
- Media logic
- logic may vary depending on application (music, religion, etc.)
- profit and power remain driving forces throughout
- Instead of investigating relation of "music" and "culture-society", ethnomusicology now contends with 3 domains: "music", "media", and "culture-society".
- Relation of "music" and "culture-society" ("religion") is mediated, impacted by media system.
- Media system also affects both "music" and "culture-society" ("religion") directly.
- Driving forces: $, technology, power
- Triadic