Difference between revisions of "Notes on commodification and mediaization of religious music"
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Revision as of 11:25, 28 March 2006
Arc of this course:
(1) "Traditional" topics: holistic world-view. Concepts of "music" and "religion" are often not emic.
- 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 differentiated from religious system
- Differentiation: Corresponds to complex industrial society, monetary economy, division of labor
Topics include:
- Religion in the music system (e.g. Christian rock, jazz in concert, in media)
- 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: music, religion, etc.
- Instead of investigating relation of "music" and "culture-society", ethnomusicology now contends with 3 domains: "music", "media", and "culture-society".
- Driving forces: $, technology, power
- Triadic