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Journal articles on the topic "Folk music – History and criticism"
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Морозов, Д. В. "Science of Folk Musical Culture: History and Methodology." OPERA MUSICOLOGICA 16/2, no. 2024 (June 26, 2024): 208–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.26156/operamus.2024.16.2.011.
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В статье рассматриваются вопросы становления и современного развития отечественных научных направлений: этномузыкологии, этноорганологии и этнохореологии. Исследование базируется на оценке содержания более 500 диссертаций, защищенных с 1970 по 2020 г., в которых раскрываются проблемы изучения народных песен и традиционной музыкальной культуры в целом, а также научных трудов в области музыкальной компаративистики, ареалогии, структурной и исторической типологии, эволюционизма и текстологии фольклора, практической этномузыкологии. Систематизация этномузыкологических методов проведена с использованием принципов классификации, разработанных З. И. Комаровой в лингвистике. Этномузыкология изучается на парадигмальном уровне как наука о народной музыкальной культуре и на дисциплинарном уровне как наука о формах народной музыки и их функционировании. The article discusses formation and modern development of domestic scientific directions: ethnomusicology, ethnoorganology and ethnochoreology. The study is based on an assessment of the content of more than 500 dissertations defended from 1970 to 2020, which reveal the problems of studying folk songs and traditional musical culture in general, as well as scientific works in the field of musical comparative studies, arealogy, structural and historical typology, evolutionism and textual criticism of folklore, practical ethnomusicology. The systematization of ethnomusicological methods was carried out using the principles of classification developed by Zoya I. Komarova in linguistics. Ethnomusicology is studied at the paradigmatic level as the science of folk musical culture and at the disciplinary level as the science of folk music forms and their functioning.
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Lofton, Kathryn. "Dylan Goes Electric." Journal of Popular Music Studies 33, no. 2 (June 1, 2021): 31–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/jpms.2021.33.2.31.
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Within the study of rock music, religion appears as a racial marker or a biographical attribute. The concept of religion, and its co-produced opposite, the secular, needs critical analysis in popular music studies. To inaugurate this work this article returns to the moment in singer-songwriter Bob Dylan’s career that is most unmarked by religion, namely his appearance with an electric guitar at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival. Dylan’s going electric became, through subsequent years of narrative attention, a secularizing event. “Secularizing event” is a phrase coined to capture how certain epochal moments become transforming symbols of divestment; here, a commitment writ into rock criticism as one in which rock emerged by giving up something that had been holding it back. Through a study of this 1965 moment, as well as the history of electrification that preceded it and its subsequent commentarial reception, the unreflective secular of rock criticism is exposed.
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Archer, Rory. "Assessing Turbofolk Controversies: Popular Music between the Nation and the Balkans." Southeastern Europe 36, no. 2 (2012): 178–207. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/187633312x642103.
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This article explores controversies provoked by the Serbian pop-folk musical style “turbofolk” which emerged in the 1990s. Turbofolk has been accused of being a lever of the Milošević regime – an inherently nationalist cultural phenomenon which developed due to the specific socio-political conditions of Serbia in the 1990s. In addition to criticism of turbofolk on the basis of nationalism and war-mongering, it is commonly claimed to be “trash,” “banal,” “pornographic,” “(semi-)rural,” “oriental” and “Balkan.” In order to better understand the socio-political dimensions of this phenomenon, I consider other Yugoslav musical styles which predate turbofolk and make reference to pop-folk musical controversies in other Balkan states to help inform upon the issues at stake with regard to turbofolk. I argue that rather than being understood as a singular phenomena specific to Serbia under Milošević, turbofolk can be understood as a Serbian manifestation of a Balkan-wide post-socialist trend. Balkan pop-folk styles can be understood as occupying a liminal space – an Ottoman cultural legacy – located between (and often in conflict with) the imagined political poles of liberal pro-European and conservative nationalist orientations. Understanding turbofolk as a value category imbued with symbolic meaning rather than a clear cut musical genre, I link discussions of it to the wider discourse of Balkanism. Turbofolk and other pop-folk styles are commonly imagined and articulated in terms of violence, eroticism, barbarity and otherness the Balkan stereotype promises. These pop-folk styles form a frame of reference often used as a discursive means of marginalisation or exclusion. An eastern “other” is represented locally by pop-folk performers due to oriental stylistics in their music and/or ethnic minority origins. For detractors, pop-folk styles pose a danger to the autochthonous national culture as well as the possibility of a “European” and cosmopolitan future. Correspondingly I demonstrate that such Balkan stereotypes are invoked and subverted by many turbofolk performers who positively mark alleged Balkan characteristics and negotiate and invert the meaning of “Balkan” in lyrical texts.
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Vasic, Aleksandar. "Problem of the ′national style′ in the writing of Miloje Milojevic." Muzikologija, no. 7 (2007): 231–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.2298/muz0707231v.
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Dr. Miloje Milojevic (1884-1946) was a central figure in Serbian music criticism and academic essays between the World Wars. A large part of his writings on music were dedicated to the issue of the Serbian ?national music style?, its means of expression, and the question of modernity, i. e. to what extent modernity is desirable in the ?national style?. This paper analyzes some twenty articles - reviews, essays, and writings for special occasions - published by Milojevic between 1912 and 1942 in various Serbian newspapers magazines and collections: Srpski knjizevni glasnik (The Serbian Literary Magazine, 1912, 1913, 1914, 1923, 1924, 1935), Prosvetni glasnik (The Educational Herald, 1914, 1921, 1942), Politika (The Politics, 1921, 1922 1923, 1937, 1938, 1940, 1941), Muzika (The Music, twice in 1928) Spomenica-album Udruzenja muzikanata Kraljevine Jugoslavije 1928-1930 (The Commemorative Volume - The Album of the Society of Musicians of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia 1928-1930, 1930), Smena (The Change, 1938), and Slavenska muzika (The Slavonic Music, 1940). In the course of those thirty years Milojevic passionately believed that the future of Serbian music lies in the ?national style?, i.e. in the artistic transformation of anonymous Serbian folk songs and melodies. In spite of the changes of styles that occurred over the years, he never gave up anticipating the appearance of an ingenious composer who would develop the ?national style? to its climax and enrich Serbian music with ?national? symphonies, operas and chamber music. Milojevic was in favour of a ?national style? mainly on principle. He rarely got into a discussion about the stylistic and technical means he considered most suitable for the ?national style?. In his text Nas muzicko umetnicki program (Our music and artistic programme), published in the Serbian Literary Magazine in 1913, and another article, Za folklornu muziku (In favour of Folk Music), published in the Belgrade daily newspaper Politics in 1921, he recommended that Serbian ?national style? composers followed the model of some representatives of the European national schools of romanticism impressionism and moderately modern music. In a special kind of manifesto Za ideju umetnosti i umetnickog nacionalizma kod nas (In favour of the idea of art and artistic nationalism in Serbia), published in 1935 in the Serbian Literary Magazine, he gave an indirect answer to the question of which means of musical expression he preferred in the ?national style?. For example, he singled out the composition Sever duva (North Wind) by Kosta P. Manojlovic (1890-1949), from his collection of choral songs Pesme zemlje Skenderbegove (The Songs from the Land of Skenderbeg, 1933), as an outstanding example of what he meant by ?national style?. This Albanian folk music was transformed into a relatively modern, but yet not avant-garde composition. Therein lies the answer as to what kind of ?national style? Milojevic preferred. An advocate of a moderately modern music language, he wished Serbian art music to use its very rich folk heritage as best as it could. He was well aware that times had changed, and that there was not much inclination towards this style and ideology in the interwar period. However, he never abandoned this idea. Basically, he never accepted more radical, expressionist treatments of folk elements as a solution to the problems of ?national style?. It is also very significant that he never mentioned the name B?la Bart?k in his writings, which is something we analyze in this paper. He was never able to give up romanticism, a style that never had time to fully develop in Serbian music. Serbian folk music was a perfect basis for composing in a romantic style. Nevertheless, due to many unfavourable circumstances in Serbian history, the Serbs became part of European music world only at the beginning of the 20th century, when it was too late to develop a modern romantic national style.
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Vrana, Laura. "Leyla McCalla’s Tributes to Langston Hughes." Langston Hughes Review 29, no. 1 (March 2023): 29–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.5325/langhughrevi.29.1.0029.
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ABSTRACT Classically trained Black musician Leyla McCalla’s album Vari-Colored Songs: A Tribute to Langston Hughes (2014) intertwines innovative folk- and blues-inspired settings of Hughes’s blues poetry, interpretations of traditional Haitian folk songs, and original compositions. This article argues that the album constitutes both a vital homage to Hughes’s impact on Black diasporic culture and a feminist boundary-breaking reshaping of the expectations of the hegemonic, white-washing contemporary music industry. It reads together the album’s ambitious liner notes, accompanying visual elements, and sonic choices of selected tracks to show how McCalla, by innovatively syncretizing typically disparate genres, inherits and extends the radical political and cultural tradition of the blues women whom Hughes’s poetry often depicted. Thus, it draws on frameworks from Hughes criticism and from performance studies scholars such as Daphne Brooks to suggest that Black female artists like McCalla warrant the attention of diasporic cultural critics equally to and alongside aesthetic ancestors like Hughes who inspire them. These women are epistemologically intervening in the construction of literary and cultural history through projects like Vari-Colored Songs, an impressive artifact that wrenchingly brings together traditions to address diasporic problems such as eco-precarity and to celebrate Black women’s resilient persistence through such endemic conditions.
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FEDUN, Iryna. "ON THE QUESTION OF GENRES RESEARCH IN UKRAINIAN ETHNOORGANOLOGY." Bulletin of the Lviv University. Series of Arts Studies 280, no. 20 (2019): 147–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.30970/vas.20.2019.10619.
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The term “genre”, as well as the name of the scientific discipline “genrology” or “genology” is rather novel, but were promptly incorporated into scientific use in various fields of cultural research. The study of arts’ genera has nevertheless a long history and is comprehensively elaborated in literary criticism. Instead, Ukrainian ethnomusicologists have very few special works devoted to the study of traditional music’s genres. Therefore, some information about its generic-gender relations can be derived from the principles of collections’ systematization or performers’ repertoire characteristics in scientific works. Thus, folk instrumental music compositions are divided by structure, function, performing means, origin, etc. However, all known repertoire grouping in ethnoorganology (single or multi-level), unfortunately, are not devoid of logical contradictions. After all, the artistic genre is a heterogeneous and systemic concept; therefore genre systematization is “doomed” to failure because of the inability to adhere to the elementary logical classification principles (unity of the basis, means and proportions, incompatibility and continuity). So it is no accident that the direction of nihilism emerged in genrology. But there is always a need to streamline the analyzed material, so despite all the imperfections of genre classifications, you have to choose the most optimal ones. One of these is the division of art, known since the ancient Greece times, into epic, lyric and drama. Similar to this triad, the division of music into singing (lyrics), dance and moves (drama) and listening (epic) was formed in the Ukrainian ethnoorganology. Author suggests to apply current division for the Ukrainian folklore as well. Therefore, depending on the research purpose, we can group instrumental compositions into certain parameters for the convenience of manipulating the material, but with the awareness of multiplicity of criteria applied to various formal categories.
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Liu, Ting. "Singing (vocal) as a component of ballet: the experience of interpreting the phenomenon in the context of artistic trends of the early 20th century." Culture of Ukraine, no. 75 (March 21, 2022): 93–102. http://dx.doi.org/10.31516/2410-5325.075.12.
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The article is devoted to one of the forms of creative synthesis of types of art, which is being actualized in the modern space-time of musical and stage compositions, including through its own historical and genetic code. Singing in ballet appears in the context of art of the early 20th century as a common aesthetic phenomenon. However, music criticism and academic science have not yet provided the explanation of its mechanisms (image-aesthetic, psychological, form-creating, communicative), its overriding tasks in the concepts of modern musical theatre. The experience of problem statement in the field of interpretology provides the relevance of the topic of the article and determines the novelty of the obtained results.
The purpose of the article is to reveal the preconditions and content of the functional unity of the art of singing and dance against the background of artistic trends of the early 20th century (starting with “Pulcinella” by I. Stravinsky).
The creative tandem of dance and singing has its roots in ancient Greek culture, on which the creators of the French tradition of ballets du court (J.-B. Llully focused. In the realm of «mixed genres» of baroque music, the «golden age» of homo musicus began. The latest history of singing in ballet begins with I. Stravinsky, his «Pulchinelli». The obtained results of the research of the problem “What is singing in ballet — a tribute to history or an invention of modern culture”? First, the presence of the “genetic code” of this phenomenon in the art of Western Europe of the Modern times; secondly, the regularity of the tendency to synthesize singing in the art of ballet as a manifestation of neoclassicism, closely related to the historicism of compositional thinking of I. Stravinsky.
The conclusions outline the preconditions and content of the functional unity of singing and dance in the format of artistic trends of the early 20th century: 1) the historical and cultural code of French art (singing — dramatic play — dance); 2) personal self-reflection of I. Stravinsky (his relations on the basis of creative cooperation in the early 20th century later formed a wide range of communication for artists: O. Rodin, A. Modigliani, K. Monet, P. Picasso, V. Kandinsky); 3) imitation of pre-classical, pre-baroque, and ancient folk traditions. In general, the revival of the function of singing in ballet of the 20th century took place on the basis of musical historicism and serves as a mental sign of the birth of neoclassicism.
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Zamotin, M. P. "Blues as a Symbolic Resistance and Representation of Countercultural Groups in the United States in the late 19 – early 20 centuries." Discourse 8, no. 1 (February 25, 2022): 105–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.32603/2412-8562-2022-8-1-105-122.
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Introduction. This article examines the blues music tradition from the perspective of the use of symbolic representations by the creators of this form of culture, which formed a unique “hidden transcripts” transmitted by certain socio-cultural groups that lived and worked in a certain historical era. Since the blues tradition in the United States originates in black communities, in terms of the self-representation of representatives of this groups to the dominant culture, we can talk abut the music of this socio-cultural period of American history as an instrument for conveying “hidden transcripts”.Methodology and sources. The author used the comparative-historical methodology in the context of studying the relationship of domination and subordination between groups and individuals. All subordinate groups use resistance strategies that go unnoticed by superior groups. Open public interaction between dominant and oppressed groups is defined by the term “public transcripts” and criticism of power that takes place offstage by the term “hidden transcripts”. Forms of hidden transcripts are coded demonstrations by oppressed groups to resist and oppose themselves, their way of life, and the difficulties of inequality to dominant groups.Results and discussion. In the context of any dominance-subordination relationship, spaces of autonomy for oppressed racial and social groups were formed, in which there was an opportunity for self-expression as acts of resistance to existing inequality, which found its expression in songs, folk tales, clothing, language, and religious expression. The development of hidden transcripts depends not only on the creation of relatively uncontrollable physical places and free time, but also on the active human agents who create and disseminate them. The bearers are likely to be as socially marginalized as the places where they gather.Conclusion. Oppressed or marginalized groups create not just their art and culture as a social group caught up in a certain cultural context, but a culture of integration into society, as well as a culture of interaction with the social hierarchy in which these groups have a rather low position. Groups excluded from the decision-making process or weakly involved in it, develop their own models for demonstrating their presence in society, and also try to convey their content to all other members of society, whether groups and individuals close or distant in status and hierarchy.
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Zhou, Yi. "Verbal aspects of China’s vocal art system." Aspects of Historical Musicology 21, no. 21 (March 10, 2020): 137–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.34064/khnum2-21.09.
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Background. Art criticism, as part of the humanities, has long and productively used the terminology of related sciences. This is a systemic approach, the provisions of which significantly influenced the development of scientific thought in the XX–XXI centuries. Systematization and modeling greatly simplify the process of cognition and allow to highlight the parameters that determine the identity and ability to transform of each individual system. The same approach can be applied to the study of particular components of the meta-system of human culture. From this point of view, we will analyze the vocal culture of modern China as a whole, formed by the interaction of national and international cultural patterns – primarily by verbal and musical languages. The research methodology is determined by its objectives; it is integrative and based on a combination of general scientific approaches and musicological methods. The leading research methods are historical, genre-stylistic and interpretative analyzes. Results. In the system of artistic creativity, vocal art occupies a unique place because it is a product of the synthesis of music and words, sensual and rational, imaginative and conceptual. It is language that determines the identity of national schools of composition and performance. Chinese has an unprecedentedly long history of development – from the second millennium BC. All this time the national vocal culture of the country functioned as a system that included the following elements: – a body of philosophical works, the authors of which tried to determine the function of musical art (and, in particular, singing) in the development process of the state; – treatises, aimed at the comprehension of the art of singing as a separate area of human creativity and as a type of energy practice; – creative work of outstanding singers and epistolary testimonies about it; – the full scope of musical artifacts – folk, author’s songs, works of various vocal genres; – identifying areas of vocal performing, which for a long time had two basic locations – court and domestic; – specialists’ training system and concert establishments. Obviously, all these elements had to be united by something. Let’s point out two essential factors: mentality and language. It is known that the ethnic composition of the people who lived in ancient times in the territories of modern China was heterogeneous and only in the middle of the first millennium BC a single Chinese nation was formed. What brought people of different ethnicities together? Acceptance of common life values; gradual consolidation of Confucianism as a state-building ideology; attraction to figurative thinking and preference for contemplation. All this formed an interesting conglomeration of national artistic guidelines, which includes nature worship, philosophical understanding of the nature of art, understanding of the relationship between human existence and the laws of existence of the universe. It is from this position that the philosophers and artists of ancient China treated the art of singing, which was perceived as one of the means of communication with the world and a part of spiritual practices. This determined the uniqueness of Chinese folk song as one of the most important components of national culture. We note that, as in the culture of other countries, Chinese folk song was one of the most common musical genres, responding to changing of aesthetic dominants of society. From ancient times, the Music Department has been operating in China, one of the tasks of which was to select songs and approve the time and order of their performance. One of the most famous monuments is the famous Book of Songs «Shijing» (詩經), which presents the established genre and style typology of songwriting: domestic, labor, love songs and works that glorify the rulers. Another facet of folk art associated with the embodiment of fantastic images is reflected in another monument – «Chu Ci» or «Verses of Chu» (楚辭). These artifacts determined the development path of Chinese vocal culture. Now let’s turn to an important factor for our study – language. Due to its phonetic features, the Chinese forms a specific intonation of melos and unusual for the European listener vocal speech. Considerable attention in Chinese singing culture was paid to the emotional coloring of the “musical message”, the tension of which was achieved through timbre colors and the use of extremely high register. Another important aspect of the language that influenced China’s vocal culture is its rather complex rhythmic organization. Language affects the singer’s thinking, the formation of his organs of articulation. But can changes in vocal culture affect verbal language? Since the beginning of the twentieth century, the structure of the vocal art of the Celestial Empire has changed almost radically. Today it is practically identical to what we can find in any European country. But, in our opinion, there is something that significantly distinguishes the vocal art of modern China from other national vocal schools. It’s a question of language. After all, a singer who seeks to improve in the academic vocal art is forced to restructure the entire speech apparatus without which it is impossible to master bel canto as a basic vocal technique. Conclusions. The verbal component is an important part of vocal culture, because it is a representative of national picture of the world and through its structures embodies the specifics of thinking of a particular people. Language determines all the melodic parameters – semantic, intonation, compositional, emotional, etc. The most illustrative proof of this is the folk song culture, which is the basis for the further formation of academic genres of music. In this sense, China’s vocal culture is a unique phenomenon, in which academic culture is shaped by borrowing the cultural heritage of other countries. Moreover, one of the most important markers of this borrowing is the assimilation of music and speech resources namely.
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Kholmirzayev, Otamurod Eshmirza Ogli. "History of Uzbek folk music." Asian Journal of Multidimensional Research 10, no. 9 (2021): 499–503. http://dx.doi.org/10.5958/2278-4853.2021.00730.8.
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Burns, Robert, and n/a. "Transforming folk : innovation and tradition in English folk-rock music." University of Otago. Department of Music, 2008. http://adt.otago.ac.nz./public/adt-NZDU20080701.132922.
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From a mixed methodology perspective that includes ethnology, musicology and cultural anthropology, I argue that, despite initial detachment from folk revivalism, English folk-rock has moved closer to aspects of tradition and historical status and has embraced a revivalist stance similar to that of the folk revivals that occurred earlier in the twentieth century. Whereas revivalism often rejects manifestations of mass culture and modernity, I also argue that the early combinations of folk music and rock music demonstrated that aspects of preservation and commercialisation have always co-existed within this hybrid musical style. English folk-rock, a former progressive rock music style, has emerged in the post-punk era as a world music style that appeals to a broad spectrum of music fans and this audience does not regard issues such as maintenance of authenticity and tradition as key factors in the preservation process.
Rock music has remained a stimulus for further change in folk music and has enabled English folk-rock to become regarded as popular music by a new audience with diverse musical tastes. When folk music was adapted into rock settings, the result represented a particular identity for folk music at that time. In a similar way, as folk music continues to be amalgamated with rock and other popular music styles, or is performed in musical settings representing new cultures and ethnicities now present in the United Kingdom, it becomes updated and relevant to new audiences. From this perspective, I propose that growth in the popularity of British folk music since the early 1970s can be linked to its performance as English folk-rock, to its connections with culture and music industry marketing and promotion techniques, and to its inclusion as a 1990s festival component presented to audiences as part of what is promoted as world music. Popularity of folk music presented at world music festivals has stimulated significant growth in folk music audiences since the mid-1990s and consequently the UK is experiencing a new phase of revivalism - the third folk revival.
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Williams, Stephanie E. (Stephanie Evangeline). "On folk music as the basis of a Jamaican primary school music programme." Thesis, McGill University, 1985. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=63211.
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Kirilov, Kalin Stanchev. "Harmony in Bulgarian Music." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/13533.
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555 pagesThis study focuses on the development of harmonic vocabulary in Bulgarian music. It analyzes the incorporation of harmony in village music from the 1930s to the 1990s, "wedding music" from the 1970s to 2000, and choral and instrumental arrangements (obrabotki, creations of the socialist period (1944-1989). This study also explains that terms which are frequently applied to Bulgarian music, such as "westernization," "socialist-style arrangements," or "Middle Eastern influence," depict sophisticated networks of codified and non-codified rules for harmonization which to date have not been studied. The dissertation classifies different approaches to harmony in the above mentioned styles and situates them in historical and cultural contexts, examines existing principles for harmonizing and arranging Bulgarian music, and establishes new systems for analysis. It suggests that the harmonic language of the layers of Bulgarian music is based upon systems of rules which can be approached and analyzed using Western music theory. TV1y analysis of harmony in Bulgarian music focuses on representative examples of each style discussed. These selections are taken from the most popular and well-received compositions available in the repertoire.
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Brownlee, Jane. "The Transmission of Traditional Fiddle Music in Australia." Master's thesis, Sydney Conservatorium of Music, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/13919.
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Brownlee, Jane. "The transmission of traditional fiddle music in Australia." Master's thesis, Sydney Conservatorium of Music, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/7913.
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Abeyaratne, Harsha. "Folk music of Sri Lanka : ten piano pieces." Virtual Press, 2001. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1213149.
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The purpose of the present research was to provide ideas for positive stress management in the orchestra world to help achieve high-level performances. The author developed the Orchestral Performance and Stress Survey and distributed it to 230 musicians of three orchestras that comprised full-time and part-time professional as well as community orchestra musicians. The survey sought to identify stress-causing and performance-enhancing factors in the orchestra environment. Questions on the musicians' background allowed for comparisons to identify groups with particular needs. Results show that musical training often does not include stress management training. Playing-related injuries are common. Two-thirds of full-time musicians who responded have suffered injuries that forced them to stop playing for more than one week. On average, musicians reported that stress neither detracts from, nor enhances performances. The most stressful concert types were classical concerts. Highly critical audiences are the most stressful.School of Music
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Go, Kin-ming Joseph, and 吳建明. "Nostalgic musicians in North Point: a survey of Fujian Nanyin activities in Fujian Tiyuhui, from 1957 to thepresent." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2003. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31227351.
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Pham, Phuong Hoa. "Étude des rapports entre les musiques traditionnelles vietnamiennes et les techniques de composition occidentales dans les oeuvres de Dàm Linh." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/mq33737.pdf.
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Cheung, Kwok-hung Stephen, and 張國雄. "Traditional folksongs in an urban setting: a study of Hakka Shange in Tai Po, Hong Kong." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2004. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31364846.
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Lee, Hee Seung. "The "Beethoven Folksong Project" in the Reception of Beethoven and His Music." Thesis, connect to online resource, 2006. http://www.unt.edu/etd/all/Dec2006/Open/lee_hee_seung/index.htm.
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Litova-Nikolova, Lidii︠a︡. Bulgarian folk music. Sofia: Marin Drinov Academic Pub. House, 2004.
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Prasad, Onkar. Folk music and folk dances of Banaras. Calcutta: Anthropological Survey of India, 1987.
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Lornell, Kip. Introducing American folk music. Madison, Wis: Brown & Benchmark, 1992.
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Wehrs, William. "Affect and Film Music: A Brief History." In The Palgrave Handbook of Affect Studies and Textual Criticism, 735–52. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63303-9_28.
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Brüstle, Christa. "Gender Issues as Criticism Within (New) Music Institutions." In New Music and Institutional Critique, 49–68. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-67131-3_3.
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AbstractWhy is the thematisation of gender linked to social criticism and criticism of music institutions as well as criticism of music as institution? Institutions and institutionalised organisations should be regarded as intermediate instances located between society as a whole and the individual. In them, gender relations are created and reproduced, discussed, and transformed. The thematisation of gender and the associated criticism within institutions then means, above all, dealing with gender-specific power relations. Moreover, the spectrum of approaches in art and art studies for thematising gender ranges from criticism of the exclusion of women from history to criticism of the dominance of certain discourses. Therefore, the integration of gender in the field of music implies aspects and measures of institutional gender equality policy as well as fundamental perspectives critical of music discourses, music theory, and musicology, and thus also institutionally critical perspectives.
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Bolden, Tony. "Blue Funk." In Groove Theory, 37–84. University Press of Mississippi, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.14325/mississippi/9781496830524.003.0003.
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This chapter examines the development of funk as a distinct concept in black vernacular culture, and explains how blues artists, modern jazz musicians, and political attitudes during the civil rights movement combined to establish the foundation for the musical genre of funk as well as the non-conformist aesthetics and attitudes the music expressed. The central argument is therefore two-fold: that blues artists formulated the concept now known as funk, and that funk became the epistemic centerpiece of a broader cultural aesthetics in black working-class environments. As with the previous chapter, “Blue Funk: The Ugly Beauty of Stank ” foregrounds the central role of kinesthesia in blues-oriented approaches to music-making. Using insights and methods from multiple areas of scholarship, including musicology, ethnomusicology, philosophy, literary criticism, dance criticism, and art history, Bolden explains how the concept of funk and/or precepts associated with funk were not only exemplified in several black musical genres but also dancing, literature, and visual art as well. In this way, black artists working in several mediums contributed to the transformation of “funky” from a stigmatizing signification, that is, a negative, stereotypical expression into a metaphor of black cultural affirmation.
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"History and Criticism." In Italian Ars Nova Music, 13–74. 2nd ed. University of California Press, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/jj.8306149.10.
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Caldwell, John. "Folk Music and Popular Music." In The Oxford History of English Music, 491–536. Oxford University PressOxford, 1999. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198162889.003.0008.
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Abstract The subject of this chapter is easier to describe than to define. Beside the national body of centrally developed art-music, its style the outcome of a narrowly focused tradition of imitation and innovation, stands a mass of material that lies outside the main stream, related to but not dependent on it, rather as regional dialects may be related to a central standardized language. A regional character is indeed an important facet of what has come to be called folk music, though this does not preclude the transmission of melodies and melody-types across regional and even national boundaries. Just as important is its cultivation and preservation in a stratum of society that exists independently of the ‘higher’ civilization that surrounds it, though this again does not preclude the transference of material across the social boundaries, whatever its origin. But notwithstanding the potential for regional and social migration, it seems important to maintain a distinction between folk music, rural or urban, and the commercially produced variety that we think of as ‘popular’. Even here the distinction is blurred by the fact that so much ‘true’ folk music seems to have originated in the commercial enterprises of towns and cities, for example in the production of single-sheet ballads to be sung to existing well-known tunes.
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"The Folk Music Business." In A New History of American and Canadian Folk Music. Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781501344183.ch-016.
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Dahl, Per. "Music Criticism in Norway." In The Cambridge History of Music Criticism, 392–407. Cambridge University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/9781139795425.021.
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Cooley, Timothy J. "Folk music in Eastern Europe." In The Cambridge History of World Music, 352–70. Cambridge University Press, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/cho9781139029476.020.
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Thomas, Wyn. "Women and Welsh Folk Song." In A History of Welsh Music, 121–43. Cambridge University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/9781009036511.009.
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Karnes, Kevin C. "MUSIC CRITICISM AS LIVING HISTORY." In Music, Criticism, and the Challenge of History, 48–76. Oxford University Press, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195368666.003.0003.
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LI, SHAN, and SHENG-DONG YUE. "THE VIGOROUS SINGING THROUGH HISTORY—AN INVESTIGATION REPORT OF RONG COUNTY'S CARRYING WORKERS’ CHANT." In 2021 International Conference on Education, Humanity and Language, Art. Destech Publications, Inc., 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.12783/dtssehs/ehla2021/35729.
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Carrying workers’ chant in Rong County, a county in Zigong city of Sichuan province, has a long history. It is an ancient traditional music culture created and developed by working people in the process of long-term collaborative labor. The carrying workers’ chant on this piece of land is indispensable in people’s daily labor and maintains close contact with production and life. It organically combines folk music with strong physical labor, which has both musical beauty and labor beauty, and has a wealth of cultural connotation. Through long-term field investigations and visits, we start with the historical background, ontological characteristics, main artistic features, living space and other aspects of the carrying workers’ chant in Rong County, and dig out and interpret its cultural and spiritual connotations based on case analysis. Rong County is located in the southwest of Zigong City. The area is influenced by the salt industry culture and the content of folk music is rich and diverse. "Carrying workers’ chant" is a representative of local folk music, among which the chant of carrying stones and carrying workers’ chant of mourning are particularly famous. In 2016, "Salt Workers’ chanting" became the fifth batch of intangible cultural heritage in Zigong City. As the representative work of "Salt Workers’ chant in Zigong", "Carrying workers’ chant" is very necessary to be carried out through systematic investigation and research.
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Ghilas, Victor. "Musical Chisinau. History Pages (1812-1918)." In Simpozion Național de Studii Culturale, dedicat Zilelor Europene ale Patrimoniului. Ediția III. Institute of Cultural Heritage, Republic of Moldova, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.52603/sc21.01.
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The article subjects to observation some coordinates of Chisinau’s musical life over the course of about a hundred years after the annexation of Bessarabia to the Russian Empire. The sources that served as documentary support for achieving this goal are: historical, literary, and scientific writings, sketches, notes, travel memoirs of some people, passing through our lands, testimonies little known or more difficult to reach the reader. From the synthesis of the most eloquent data and information, inserted in the reference sources, we try to outline a general picture of music in the administrative center of Moldavia on the left bank of the Prut during the years 1812- 1918. The view, resulting from the reconstruction of the musical landscape in the researched urban environment, offers a rich palette of events. Following the chronology of the presence of music in society, we highlight its main forms of expression, including folk music, music of boyar salons (fashionable), religious music, military music, concert activities, musical-theatrical performances. Through the prism of the musical components recorded within the specified time interval, we identify different styles, influences, artistic tastes, as well as the share of music in the urban society. We also draw attention to the social functions that music fulfilled in the Chisinau cultural environment at that time. The undertaken radiography leads us to the finding that European music is beginning to gain more and more ground for assertion in the cultural life of Chisinau with a wider openness to Western civilization and the assimilation of new artistic forms of manifestation.
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Kolomiets, G. "ON THE QUESTION OF MUSICAL HERMENEUTICS IN AESTHETICS." In Aesthetics and Hermeneutics. LCC MAKS Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.29003/m2548.978-5-317-06726-7/65-69.
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The report assumes a dialogue between aesthetic and art history methods of interpreting a piece of music. Musical hermeneutics in art criticism, guided by a more historical, educational and detailed approach, is complemented by an anthropo-axiological method in aesthetics.
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Derevjaníková, Anna. "Tradičná ľudová hudobná kultúra a kurikulárna reforma základného školstva na Slovensku." In Musica viva in schola. Brno: Masaryk University Press, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.5817/cz.muni.p280-0272-2023-9.
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In the article, the author presents the proposed and currently pilot-verified curriculum reform of primary education in Slovakia. The goal of the reform is to improve and strengthen primary education in the educational system, to adapt the goals, content, and forms of education to the needs of current and prospective society. It is mainly about improving the results of pupils’ education in basic, domain areas of literacy, through which cross-curricular literacy intersects. Music in all its forms and contents is part of the Art and Culture educational field and dominantly participates in the development of artistic literacy as the ability to perceive, experience, understand, know, create and present various versions and forms of artistic expression of the world. The goals of regional education, the contents of traditional folk and therefore also folk-music culture are implemented in the proposal in individual educational areas. Traditional folk culture in Slovakia still represents a living and valuable cultural heritage, which is why it is still called a small history of the region. The author compares the form in which musical-folkloric performances are incorporated into the educational process at the present time and the form in which they are incorporated into the proposal of the new curriculum.
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Zhao, Yuting, and Wei Bu. "An Interactive Aesthetic Study of a Digital Display APP for Chinese Copper Chisel Paper Cutting Cultural Gene." In 15th International Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics (AHFE 2024). AHFE International, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.54941/ahfe1005330.
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This paper discusses the study of interactive aesthetics of the cultural digital display application of traditional Chinese folk art copper chisel paper cutting. The main reasons for selecting Foshan copper chisel paper-cutting as the research object are as follows: firstly, copper chisel paper-cutting is the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage, which has a history of 800 years, and has high historical research value and cultural protection value; secondly, the scarcity of raw materials and the fault line of the inheritors have caused copper chisel paper-cutting to be nearly extinct, and there is an urgent need to utilize the modern design method to carry out the salvage protection and living inheritance; finally, the mobile Internet and digital technology have broken the boundaries of space and time, and broadened the scope of the dissemination of intangible cultural heritage. In this paper, we design a digital display app for copper chisel paper-cutting culture, aiming to enhance users' knowledge and experience of copper chisel paper-cutting, stimulate users' aesthetic interest and creativity, and promote the dissemination and inheritance of copper chisel paper-cutting culture through the digital media and interactive aesthetics.The thesis firstly analyzes the artistic characteristics of copper chisel paper-cutting art, which is summarized as strong folklore connotation, unique material characteristics and subtle production technology. The paper extracts the cultural genes of copper chisel paper-cutting from both explicit and implicit cultural genes, including material genes, color genes, craft genes, composition genes, semantic genes and aesthetic genes, and reveals the profound cultural connotations and symbols contained in copper chisel paper-cutting. And based on the interactive aesthetic principles of information, emotion and behavior, the design framework of digital display applications is proposed.Then, based on the theoretical framework of interactive aesthetics, this paper discusses the design objectives, design principles and design strategies of digital display app. The authors believe that the digital display app should be able to effectively convey the connotation and value of copper chisel paper-cutting culture, and also consider the aesthetic needs and experience of users. Therefore, the authors constructed the design elements of the digital display app from three aspects: content, form and function. In terms of content, the authors chose representative and educational copper chisel paper-cutting works, as well as related history, techniques and inheritance information. In terms of form, the authors used multimedia means such as animation, music and video to enhance the visual and sound effects of the digital display app. In terms of function, the authors provide basic functions such as browsing, searching, collecting and sharing, as well as interactive functions such as collage, coloring and creating, which improve the usability and interestingness of the digital display app.The innovations of this paper are: firstly, the extraction and translation of cultural genes are taken as the core of the design, which preserves the aesthetic concepts and cultural connotations of copper chisel paper-cutting, and at the same time gives copper chisel paper-cutting a new form of expression and a way of dissemination; secondly, it applies the method of interactive aesthetics, which enhances users' perception and participation in the culture of copper chisel paper-cutting, and promotes users' aesthetic experience and cultural identity; thirdly, it combines the advantages of the mobile Internet and the digital Thirdly, by combining the advantages of mobile Internet and digital technology, the scope of audience and influence of copper chisel paper-cutting culture has been broadened, which provides new possibilities for the living inheritance of copper chisel paper-cutting culture.The conclusion of the thesis is that the cultural gene translation of copper chisel paper-cutting needs to utilize the technical advantages of digital media, create diversified forms of expression and interactive methods, and improve the cultural communication effect and user experience of copper chisel paper-cutting. Copper chisel paper-cutting culture digital display APP is an effective method of inheritance and innovation, which can maintain the cultural essence of copper chisel paper-cutting while breaking the rigidity of design, enriching the design resources of intangible cultural heritage, and giving the copper chisel paper-cutting a new value of the times and aesthetic significance.In addition, the thesis points out the prospects and limitations of the research.
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Мир-Багирзаде, Ф. А. "Oriental symbolism of the ballet "Seven beauties" based on the poem by Nizami Ganjavi." In Современное социально-гуманитарное образование: векторы развития в год науки и технологий: материалы VI международной конференции (г. Москва, МПГУ, 22–23 апреля 2021 г.). Crossref, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.37492/etno.2021.91.54.086.
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автор исследует творческие интерпретации произведения поэта-гуманиста Низами Гянджеви (XII в.) из цикла «Хамсе» «Семь красавиц». Поэт, был подлинным эрудитом, знатоком не только коранических текстов, истории, античной и мусульманской философии, но и астрономии. Данная статья – попытка проследить ориентальную символику образов Гянджеви в одной из творческих интерпретаций поэмы «Семь красавиц», через призму хореографического и сценографического искусства. Метод исследования – семиотический анализ, объект исследования – балет «Семь красавиц», объединивший достижения современной европейской хореографии и средневековую восточную поэзию с присущей ей образностью, поставленный на музыку азербайджанского композитора Кары Караева. Композитор К. Караев активно использовал самобытные музыкальные традиции Азербайджана (музыкальные гармонии, мелодика ашугов и элементы народных азербайджанских ладов), сочетая их с европейскими мелодиями и ритмами. Анализируя фильм-балет «Семь красавиц» (1982, режиссер Федор Слидовкер) и новую постановку театра оперы и балета им. М.Ф. Ахундова (2011), автор прослеживает трансформацию либретто и предлагает собственное прочтение символики метафоричного произведения классика Низами Гянджеви. Поиски истины, красоты и справедливости всегда были уделом мыслящего человека. Восточные поэты воспевали этот поиск, этот долгий и трудный путь к истине, идеальному миру. Придворные интриги, роскошь дворца и повседневная жизнь простого народа, благородство, коварство и любовь переплелись в этой метафоричной восточной притче, которая легла в основу нескольких интерпретаций балета «Семь красавиц». Несмотря на большую степень условности, свойственной этому жанру сценического искусства, фильм-балет характеризуется драматургической многоплановостью, органическим сплетением развивающихся сюжетных линий, динамической взаимосвязью социального и лирико-психологического конфликтов. Трансформация либретто балета «Семь красавиц» свидетельствует о новом, более глубоком прочтении, приближению его к идейно-философской метафоричной концепции оригинальной поэмы Низами Гянджеви, воспетому поэтом вечному поиску истины, любви и справедливости со свойственной ему ориентальной образностью. the author explores creative interpretations of the work of the humanist poet Nizami Ganjavi (XII century) from the cycle "Khamse" – "Seven beauties". The poet was a true polymath, an expert not only in Quranic texts, history, ancient and Muslim philosophy, but also in astronomy. This article is an attempt to trace the Oriental symbolism of Ganjavi's images in one of the creative interpretations of the poem "Seven beauties", through the prism of choreographic and scenographic art. The method of research is semiotic analysis, the object of research is the ballet "Seven beauties", which combines the achievements of modern European choreography and medieval Eastern poetry with its inherent imagery, set to the music of the Azerbaijani composer Gara Garayev. The composer G. Garayev actively used the original musical traditions of Azerbaijan (musical harmonies, melodies of ashugs and elements of Azerbaijani folk modes), combining them with European melodies and rhythms. Analyzing the film-ballet "Seven beauties" (1982, directed by Fyodor Slidovker) and the new production of the Opera and ballet theater named after M. F. Akhundov (2011), the author traces the transformation of the libretto and offers his own interpretation of the symbolism of the metaphorical work of the classic Nizami Ganjavi. The search for truth, beauty, and justice has always been the province of the thinking man. Eastern poets sang of this search, this long and difficult path to the truth, the ideal world. Court intrigues, the luxury of the Palace and the daily life of the common people, nobility, guile and love are intertwined in this metaphorical Eastern parable, which formed the basis of several interpretations of the ballet "Seven beauties". Despite the great degree of conventionality inherent in this genre of stage art, the film-ballet is characterized by a dramatic diversity, an organic interweaving of developing storylines, and a dynamic relationship between social and lyrical-psychological conflicts. The transformation of the libretto of the ballet "Seven beauties" indicates a new, deeper reading, approaching it to the ideological and philosophical metaphorical concept of the original poem by Nizami Ganjavi, the poet's eternal search for truth, love and justice with its characteristic Oriental imagery.