Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: This is the fifth issue entirely dedicated to ethnomusicology in the remarkable six decades long history of Musicological Annual.The previous issues, edited by various scholars, included themes such as Applied Ethnomusicology (Pettan 2008), Music, Sound, and Ecology (Pettan 2016), Music, Migration, and Minorities (Kovačič and Hofman 2019), and Music, Religion, and Spirituality (Markoff and Bjelica 2022).Just like the previous four, this issue, edited by Christian Poske, Mark van Tongeren, Manoj Alawathukotuwa, and Dasith Asela Tilakaratna, is related to the International Council for Traditions of Music and Dance, ICTMD (former International Council for Traditional Music, ICTM), the leading global scholarly association of ethnomusicologists and ethnochoreologists.The articles were developed, with one exception, from selected papers presented at the 12th symposium of the ICTMD Study Group on Music and Minorities, which was enriched by a joint day featuring the ICTMD Study Group on Indigenous Music and Dance.The event took place on 4-9 December 2023 in Colombo, Sri Lanka.The six articles presented in this issue of Musicological Annual, which went through the double-blind peerreviewed process, nicely reflect the symposium themes: Theoretical, methodological, and governmental implications for the study of music and dance of minorities; Music, dance, and minorities across the Indian ocean; Diaspora/ translocality in music and dance of minorities; and Differences and commonalities between Indigenous people and minorities.The authors of diverse origins and research foci, based in London (UK), Astrakhan (Russia), Vancouver (Canada), Vienna (Austria), and Riverside (USA), provide the results of their scholarly investigations into a wide variety of music and dance practices on different continents.Shihan de Silva Jayasuriya theorizes on the genesis of the Sri Lankan popular music genre Chorus baila.Elena M. Shishkina considers the aspects of preservation and reduction of traditional wedding rituals of the Volga German sub-ethnic group in Russia.Eshantha Peiris points to shared histories of Sinhalese and Tamil practitioners behind the cultural production of the music and dance genre Vannam in Sri Lanka.Christian Poske provides an analysis on how the Naga Indigenous people of northeastern India (and northern Myanmar) have responded with their songs to colonial and postcolonial armed conflicts in their territories.In her search for an answer to the research question »Whose sounds fit in the nation-state?«,Liz Przybylski explores expressions of Black Canadians, linguistic minorities, and Indigenous people in Canada through hip hop music.Finally, Chun Chia Tai focusses on Mando-pop
Source: Musicological Annual
DOI: 10.4312/mz.60.2.5-8
Author: Svanibor Pettan
Institution: University of Ljubljana
Language: English
Subfield: Music
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4405946859