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Combining audio and visual information while videorecording in the field: methodological and technical problems
No full textThe paper deals with the specific problems arising while documenting music events through audiovisual equipment. Methodological differences between audio and video recording are examined. On the base of the personal fieldwork experience of the author, pros and cons of several ways of recording audio while making videos are presented and discussed. The conclusion is that no particular method of audio-visual recording can be considered the right one in general terms, it seems rather advisable to adopt particular technical solutions according to the aim of the research and the specific given context
I Canti del Lazio di Giggi Zanazzo. Per una lettura etnomusicologica
No full textThe paper presents a critical review of the collection of folk song texts published by Giggi Zanazzo at the beginning of XX Century. Methodological problems of evaluating historical literary sources transcribed from oral tradition without sound recording are emphasized and discussed. Nevertheless, the author shows how a carefull analysis of the way the texts are transribed (with interesting rendering of the phonetics of the dialect), the metrical forms and the literary themes can highlight significant clues for the ethnomusicological knowledge of the song repertoires and their social context
Vedere la musica. Film e video nello studio dei comportamenti musicali
No full textThe book presents a report of the personal experience of the author in the use of films and videos in the study of ethnomusicology, the teaching of the discipline and, especially, the field research. Both methodological and technical questions are presented and discussed. The book is structured in three parts: the first one, Introduction, deals in general and theoretical sense with the role of the visual experience both in music and ethnomusicology. The second and larger part, Researches, presents specific studies based on the use of video documentation in the field, emphasizing how audiovisual material can provide deeper understanding of musical structures and behaviour. The third part, Methods and techniques, presents some remarks on theoretical and practical questions related to the field work. The fourth and last part, Materials, introduces and comments a 35' film included in the attached DVD. The same DVD provides other edited videos and audiovisual examples as a necessary integration of the chapters in the book
Malawi: History, culture, and geography of music
No full textThe contribution presents a survey of the music traditions documented in Malawi since the second half of the last Century. It is based both on updated international bibliography and the moat recent fieldwork by the author
Music - body - movement, An "African" perspective applied to the analysis of South Italian dances
No full textThe complex realationship between music, body and movement in the case of the Calabrian tarantella is explored through an innovative method of frame by frame analysis of digital videos. Basic concepts derived from the studies of African music published by Gerhard Kubik have proved particularly useful. The original method of analysis has revealed unexpected aspects of the music-body relationship: on this base a new theory of rhythm as movement, in contrast to rhythm as sound, is proposed by the author
First Notes on a Psychoanalytic Approach to the Functions of Music
No full textThe paper presents a psychoanalytic interpretation of some functions of music based on the theory of transitional objects and phenomena proposed by D. W. Winnicott and extended to the analysis of lullabies and nursery rhymes by Renata De Benedetti Gaddini. The role played by music in the process of reassuring the child and helping him in falling into sleep is compared by the author to the role played in other critical moments in the life of individuals within social communities: laments for the death, music in the rites of passage, possession trance. In all these situations the music mediates between the individual and the social environment and helps to reorganize personal identities. Taking into account some classical studies such as the one by Gilbert Rouget on music and trance or the one by Gerhard Kubik on initiation schools in Angola, the author suggests that in all these contexts the music works in a way that can be considered as rooted in the early psychological experience of transitional objects and phenomena
Il rapporto tra gerarchie ecclesiastiche e devozione popolare in Calabria. Un resoconto etnografico e qualche considerazione
No full textThe paper is based on an ethnomusicological field research carried out in Calabria and dedicated to pilgrimages, processions and patron saint festivals. This context has revealed the existence of a complex relationship between the Church and music and dance behavior characterizing the traditional folk devotion rooted in the ancient rural culture. These behaviors seem to resist the opposition of the Church, especially where the presence of the criminal activities and the cultural influence of the ‘ndrangheta organization appears to be stronger. According to the author, the identification of folk devotion with criminal behavior and culture might be misleading. The recent struggle that the Church, State and mass media undertook against folk devotion, merely considered as a demonstration of ‘ndrangheta’s cultural power, can turn out to be vain and counterproductive
Sessanta anni di etnomusicologia in Italia: nuove sfide disciplinari e istituzionali (in collaborazione con Francesco Giannattasio)
No full textThe paper presents a critical review of the history of Ethnomusicology in Italy between 1948 and 2008
Non esiste solo il maschile. Teorie e pratiche per un linguaggio non discriminatorio da un punto di vista di genere
No full textPer quanto riguarda il genere, la lingua italiana (e non solo quella italiana), offre delle possibilità che sono ben superiori a quanto facciamo quotidianamente con le parole. Il genere, certo, si dà nelle norme che lo definiscono e lo impongono, ma anche nelle minuscole sovversioni che a partire da quegli stessi spazi di normatività diventano di
volta in volta possibili. Di questo, in fin dei conti, si parla quando si dice che il genere è performativo. Di questo vuole dare una piccola testimonianza questo volume. Contributi di E. Vezzosi, S. Adamo, M. Sbisà, L. Rega, N. Celotti, M.D. Ferrara, P. Fiore, V. Mikolic, M. Pusterla, W. Houbabi, G. Zanfabro, F. Martini
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