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Knowing Through Popular Music in the Western Pacific Island World
No full textPacific Indigenous scholars have long emphasized the role of relationality for Pacific Islanders’ epistemologies. In this article, the author rethinks music in terms of the procedural knowledge inherent in and specific to popular music-making by exploring the latter as knowledge practices in Micronesia. This approach opens new vistas on the relationality at the heart of Western Pacific music-making. The author calls the musical manifestation of that relational capacity sound ties, suggesting that if, following Epeli Hau‘ofa, Oceania is “humanity rising from the depths of brine”, then it is not least the sound ties of knowing in and through music that mould that very humanity of people who are at home with the sea into aquapelagic assemblages that are, after all, so much more than water and land
Aesthetics of Interculturality in East Asian Contemporary Music - the world of music (new series)
No full textLe hip hop as Homing Practice
No full textIn this article, I suggest that the transitory and, to a significant extent, disciplined techniques of music and dance can be used towards a flexing of the lived experience. Such flexing invites an intensification of the sensation of being in the world which, in turn, allows those partaking in music and dance to make the world their own through sound and body movement. Music and dance, therefore, are dwelling practices themselves. As such, they do not represent or occupy time and space. Instead, they become strategies of (felt-)bodily practicing and rearranging time and space. This capacity of music and dance vis-à-vis everyday life worlds accounts for their significance in everyday life. Here, I explore music and dance as dwelling practices through the work of the French dance duo Les Twins. Casting light on the role of the performing arts in making a home in the world, I will approach the dynamics of Les Twins’s dwelling with music and dance through the experiential, the moving and the relational
Sama Dilaut cultural identity, the sensory experience of traveling at sea, and the acoustic claiming of space
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Tides of Tagunggu. Of Sama Dilaut Lifeworlds, Gongs, and Plastic Bottles
No full textThe so-called gong-chime belt of Southeast Asia is home to a great cultural diversity. Different cultural groups,
sometimes occupying borderland areas and stretching over several sides of today’s national borders, are connected with one another across this territory through their practice of different, yet recognizably related, styles of gong playing. Attempts to relate to one another musically, and how gong ensemble repertoire is a favored means to do so, can be observed on the occasion of the many cultural festivals held recurrently in the region. Here, cultural groups musically situate themselves in the larger region while at the same time emphasizing their usually localized musical uniqueness in order to firmly affirm their place within their wider cultural context
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