Year: 1995
Type: article
Abstract: ---> The author criticizes the concept of ethnicity current in spanish studies on traditional music and develops - as an alternative category - the concept of social relevance. \n \nThe social relevance of a determined music production in a concret socio-cultural situation appears in the interaction between significance, uses and its fonctional implications. \n \nWe speak about the significance of a music, when it is possible to establish an identity connection between it and a cognitive category of a social dimension. Thus, we can associate heavy metal with youth and flamenco with Andalusia. \n \nSpeaking about the use of a music, it seems pertinent to introduce the concept of "musical event"; as the realization of a musical act in a determined time and space. Indeeed, the type and the number of musical events will give us always good information about their use (ludic, commercial, religious, etc), and, thus, about their social relevance. On the other hand, when a music is socially relevant for a determined community, it also accomplishes specific fonctions. They are in accordance with the significance and the uses assigned to them. \n \nThe concept of social relevance gives us more precision in the task of getting knowledge about the musical life of a community.
Author: Josep Martí Pérez
Language: Spanish
Subfield: Music
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1028174309