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The Diy Ethic In Richmond, Virginia’S Underground Music Community, Calvin Sloan
The Diy Ethic In Richmond, Virginia’S Underground Music Community, Calvin Sloan
Undergraduate Honors Theses
This project seeks to examine Richmond, Virginia’s underground music community through the analytical perspective of sociocultural anthropology. I argue that Richmond’s underground music community is guided by a governing ideology I refer to as the “DIY ethic”. The application of the DIY (Do It Yourself) ethic helps to explain the community’s unique practices, including moshing and the formation of new, niche genres. This ethnographic approach includes interviews with community members and my own firsthand observations of music venues and other subcultural spaces. This research is part of my undergraduate honors project at the College of William & Mary.
Theology In African American Spirituals And White Protestant Hymnody: A Comparative Study, Justin Oei
Theology In African American Spirituals And White Protestant Hymnody: A Comparative Study, Justin Oei
Undergraduate Research Awards
"The spiritual is one of the most significant windows into the religious experiences of Black Americans. This paper will analyze the theological content of the spiritual, and 19th/20thcentury Black religious practice more broadly, alongside that of contemporary white Protestant hymnody. Fundamentally, the African American Christian experience is based around the promise of liberation from oppression by the Messiah; it seeks justice for the downtrodden and a Kingdom of God based on equity.
I posit that, through a comparative analysis of selected Black spirituals and contemporaneous white hymnody, the spiritual’s theological content will be more focused on liberation as expressed through …
Call And Response: Sem President’S Roundtable 2016, “Ethnomusicological Responses To The Contemporary Dynamics Of Migrants And Refugees”, Anne K. Rasmussen, Angela Impey, Rachel B. Willson, Ozan Aksoy, Et Al.
Call And Response: Sem President’S Roundtable 2016, “Ethnomusicological Responses To The Contemporary Dynamics Of Migrants And Refugees”, Anne K. Rasmussen, Angela Impey, Rachel B. Willson, Ozan Aksoy, Et Al.
Arts & Sciences Articles
"The privilege of organizing the SEM President’s Roundtable in 2016 and 2017 provided an opportunity to call attention to a topic that has concerned my teaching and research since graduate school. For the first iteration of “Ethnomusicological Responses to the Contemporary Dynamics of Migrants and Refugees” I convened a panel of people whose perspectives I admire. I wanted to learn from them, and I did. As someone who has been involved with Middle Eastern and more specifically Arab music and culture within my own academic and regional community, I was making new efforts in the fall of 2016 toward engaged …
2017-2018, Middle Eastern Music Ensemble’
Women Out Loud: Hearing Knowledge And The Creation Of Soundscape In Islamic Indonesia, Anne K. Rasmussen
Women Out Loud: Hearing Knowledge And The Creation Of Soundscape In Islamic Indonesia, Anne K. Rasmussen
Arts & Sciences Book Chapters
The study of listening—aurality—and its relation to writing is the subject of this eclectic edited volume. Theorizing Sound Writing explores the relationship between sound, theory, language, and inscription. This volume contains an impressive lineup of scholars from anthropology, ethnomusicology, musicology, performance, and sound studies. The contributors write about sound in their ongoing work, while also making an intervention into the ethics of academic knowledge, one in which listening is the first step not only in translating sound into words but also in compassionate scholarship.
Rulan Chao Pian 卞赵如兰 (1922–2013), Emily E. Wilcox
Rulan Chao Pian 卞赵如兰 (1922–2013), Emily E. Wilcox
Arts & Sciences Articles
Rulan Chao Pian, who taught Chinese and music at Harvard University from 1947 to 1992, was a pioneer in the fields of Chinese Song dynasty musical history and ethnomusicological studies of Peking opera and Sinophone popular performance.
2015-2016, Middle Eastern Music Ensemble’
On Flogging The Dead Horse, Again: Historicity, Genealogy, And Objectivity In Richard Waterman's Approach To Music, Michael Iyanaga
On Flogging The Dead Horse, Again: Historicity, Genealogy, And Objectivity In Richard Waterman's Approach To Music, Michael Iyanaga
Arts & Sciences Articles
In a critical appraisal and expansion of the historical methodology championed by ethnomusicologist and anthropologist Richard Waterman, this essay reconsiders the historicity of musical performance and demonstrates ways in which treating ethnography genealogically may serve as a means of doing what Thomas Solomon calls “postcolonial music history.” This essay is broadly divided into three parts: a review of Waterman’s work, a theoretical revamping and an abbreviated case study taken from my own research on Catholic patron saint rituals in Bahia, Brazil.
2014-2015, Middle Eastern Music Ensemble’
2013-2014, Middle Eastern Music Ensemble’
2012-2013, Middle Eastern Music Ensemble’
2011-2012, Middle Eastern Music Ensemble’
Setting The Scene, Anne K. Rasmussen
Setting The Scene, Anne K. Rasmussen
Arts & Sciences Book Chapters
Women, the Recited Qur'an, and Islamic Music in Contemporary Indonesia takes readers to the heart of religious musical praxis in Indonesia, home to the largest Muslim population in the world. Anne K. Rasmussen explores a rich public soundscape, where women recite the divine texts of the Qur'an, and where an extraordinary diversity of Arab-influenced Islamic musical styles and genres, also performed by women, flourishes. Based on unique and revealing ethnographic research beginning at the end of Suharto's “New Order” and continuing into the era of “Reformation,” the book considers the powerful role of music in the expression of religious nationalism. …