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Beyond Exile: The Ramayana As A Living Narrative Among Indo-Fijians In Fiji And New Zealand, Kevin Miller
Beyond Exile: The Ramayana As A Living Narrative Among Indo-Fijians In Fiji And New Zealand, Kevin Miller
Kevin C. Miller
Drawing on the themes of collective memory, cultural ideologies, and narrative constructions, this chapter proposes to examine the narrative of the Ramayana epic, its exegesis through performance, and its continued relevance to identity formation among Indo-Fijian Hindus both within Fiji and its Pacific Rim diaspora. Based on the recasting of the “twice-migrated” Indo-Fijian as the “twice-banished” by certain observers, we might expect the meaning of the Ramayana in the lives of Indo-Fijian Hindus in New Zealand to shift towards the theme of Rama’s exile, just as it did for the indentured laborers who made the original journey to Fiji. Nevertheless, …
Nontextual Searching, Susannah Cleveland
Nontextual Searching, Susannah Cleveland
Susannah Cleveland
In this article the author discusses aspects of nontextual searching for library patrons who don't know the name of a musical piece or movement. She discusses the variety of reasons why traditional library catalogs can't account for musical content, such as melody, chords, and rhythm, the use of thematic catalogs, which indexes a composer's works and includes the first few bars of each piece or movement, and mobile device applications, such as SoundHound.
Categories And “Classical” Music – A Response To “Convergenre: Music In The Age Of Adaptation.”, Jason Neal
Categories And “Classical” Music – A Response To “Convergenre: Music In The Age Of Adaptation.”, Jason Neal
Jason R. Neal
No abstract provided.
Digital Media Reviews: Themefinder [Review], Anne Shelley
Digital Media Reviews: Themefinder [Review], Anne Shelley
Anne Shelley
Themefinder is a website that allows users to search for short musical incipits, or themes.
Ethnographic Video For Instruction And Analysis (Evia) Digital Archive [Review], Anne Shelley
Ethnographic Video For Instruction And Analysis (Evia) Digital Archive [Review], Anne Shelley
Anne Shelley
The Ethnographic Video for Instruction and Analysis Digital Archive Project (EVIA) is an online archive of worldwide collections of ethnographic field recordings that offers added-value features for the discovery, description, and analysis of video.
Precedent Or Preference? Music Recommender Systems And The Challenge Of Genre, Jason Neal
Precedent Or Preference? Music Recommender Systems And The Challenge Of Genre, Jason Neal
Jason R. Neal
With the advent of user-generated content and the capabilities of current information and communication technologies, indexing and retrieval tools for music should facilitate discovery that transcends genre boundaries. Nonetheless, they still privilege genre as the primary mode of categorization. Even recommender systems, which utilize other measures to determine similarity, give the appearance of drawing upon genre. By examining the ambiguous boundaries and definitions of genres, the contexts in which indexing and retrieval tools for music have developed, and the roles played by music at individual and societal levels, this paper considers alternative traits that could act as indicators of “similarity.”
Beyond Genre: Rethinking Music Organization And Recommendation, Jason Neal
Beyond Genre: Rethinking Music Organization And Recommendation, Jason Neal
Jason R. Neal
No abstract provided.
Emusicquest: The Music-In-Print Series. Compiled By Donald Reese, Lisa Philpott
Emusicquest: The Music-In-Print Series. Compiled By Donald Reese, Lisa Philpott
Lisa Rae Philpott
No abstract provided.
“Can Con” On The Www, Keith Chapman, Lisa Philpott
“Can Con” On The Www, Keith Chapman, Lisa Philpott
Lisa Rae Philpott
No abstract provided.
Cancon On The Web: A Survey Of Freely-Available Musical Canadiana, Lisa Philpott
Cancon On The Web: A Survey Of Freely-Available Musical Canadiana, Lisa Philpott
Lisa Rae Philpott
No abstract provided.
Geheimnisvolle Musik, Jason Neal
Geheimnisvolle Musik, Jason Neal
Jason R. Neal
Looking beyond tradtional genre categorizations, this blog ties together strands of similarities among diverse types of music. As we enter the second decade of the 21st Century, people seem more open to different types of music than in previous times. Or, they at least admit to it more readily. Furthermore, many musicians and composers have engaged with genres beyond the ones with which they are most commonly identified. Still, defining one’s tastes by genre remains firmly established for any number of reasons. If nothing else, it can provide shorthand for identifying one’s status, or it can aid with marketing products …
Local Musicians Building Global Audiences, Carey Sargent
Local Musicians Building Global Audiences, Carey Sargent
Carey L Sargent
This paper builds upon existing work regarding the social contexts of interactive on-line content creation. Through an ethnographic examination of local-level music production and distribution in two American college towns, I demonstrate how musicians cultivate audiences through social capital that is exchanged both on-line and off-line. Active social networking is crucial to their music distribution and promotion. Through digital file sharing and social networking sites, musicians mobilize bonded social capital around their image and music. However, they have difficulty bridging the networks they cultivate with a broader audience, despite their desire to do so. This paper concludes with a sketch …
Digital Stardust: The Hoagy Carmichael Collection At Indiana University, Kristine Brancolini, Jon Dunn, John Walsh
Digital Stardust: The Hoagy Carmichael Collection At Indiana University, Kristine Brancolini, Jon Dunn, John Walsh
Kristine R. Brancolini
No abstract provided.
The Hoagy Carmichael Collection, Kristine Brancolini
The Hoagy Carmichael Collection, Kristine Brancolini
Kristine R. Brancolini
No abstract provided.
Women And Music : A Selective Annotated Bibliography On Women And Gender Issues In Music, 1987-1992., Margaret Ericson
Women And Music : A Selective Annotated Bibliography On Women And Gender Issues In Music, 1987-1992., Margaret Ericson
Margaret D. Ericson
400 page monographic bibliography on all aspects of scholarship on women and music, with a particular emphasis on the concept of gender and "difference" in the formation and production of music cultures.