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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"indigenous musical"”.
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The Last Empress (1995): the paradoxical development of the Korean indigenous musical and its intercultural implications
… study examines The Last Empress, the Korean mega-musical, as a case study to explore how Korea’s modernism in theatre shifted towards a globalizing process in its society from the early 1990s to the beginning of the twenty-first century. This study argues that the Korean musical company, Art …
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Revitalizing an indigenous musical tradition: a study of Korankye's approach to sustaining the seperewa musical tradition
… many scholars as to what we mean by sustaining a musical tradition or culture. Scholars like Bell Yung (2009), Jeff Titon (2009), Baron Beardslee (2014) and others have argued that the romanticizing of these initiatives by UNESCO is not the best method as the initiatives themselves appear to have …
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A Study of the Applicability of Makah Indian Music as Material for Concert Band Composition
This study intended to (1) use indigenous musical materials in a manner interesting to and useful in the instrumental music program of the public schools, (2) contribute to a greater understanding and appreciation of the artistic values of Northwest Indian Culture, and (3) promote an appreciation …
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Indigenization of the music curriculum through Maskandi as a learning programme in two selected South African universities
… instead of being dealt with in combination with indigenous knowledge. This study aimed to investigate and suggest an alternative way in which indigenous musical arts can have equal value as Western music by incorporating local styles and tradition such as Maskandi as a learning programme. …
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En Busca De Liberalidad: Music and Musicians in the Courts of the Spanish Nobility, 1470--1640
… emerge. Courts generally maintained small musical organizations that could be augmented with additional personnel for particularly significant occasions, and founded musical establishments in collegiate churches and monasteries that functioned independently when service to the empire …
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An emergent model of the teaching of iingoma zamagqirha based on three case studies in the Western Cape, South Africa
lingoma zamagqirha is a Xhosa musical art often taught at workshops to introduce learners to the indigenous knowledge systems of the amaXhosa of South Africa. It is also a musical art which is performed in both sacred and secular environments. As such iingoma zamagqirha could be suitable for …
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Music and the Modern Maya: A Reception Study of Rock-Maya Music in Guatemala
… among the Maya. Among them we find an emerging indigenous musical genre called "Rock-Maya." I use reception analysis methods to document the encoding and decoding of this new indigenous medium of communication. Through qualitative interviews I attempt to show how K'iche'-Maya youth appropriate, …
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Modernization and music in contemporary China : crisis, identity, and the politics of style
… program has had profound effects upon indigenous musical practices. But the influence is mutual, for music, as a participant in modernization efforts, becomes a location both for legitimating and for subverting governmental policies. The overdetermined process of this dialectic has …
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Wild Music: Ideologies of Exoticism in Two Ukrainian Borderlands
… insiders and outsiders in both cases draw upon indigenous musical tropes to express or subvert stereotypes of “wildness.” By analyzing how music energizes social and political agendas for borderland groups such as the Hutsuls and Crimean Tatars, this project emphasizes the copresence of …
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Disharmony of empire: Race and the making of modern musicology in colonial North Africa
… and officials to define, study, and promote indigenous musical genres, including scholarly publications, transcriptions, compositions, conferences, and musical performance. Contentious musicological debates around Arab, Berber, and Black music and identity in North Africa were not only a lens …
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A chronicle of cultural transformation: ethnography of Badagry Ogu musical practices
This thesis examines the musical practices of Badagry Ogu people from both historical and contemporary perspectives and provides strategies for their further integration into the changing social and economic landscape characteristic of 21st-century Lagos. Badagry emerged as a Nigerian town …
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Music in Urban La Paz, Bolivian Nationalism, and the Early History of Cosmopolitan Andean Music: 1936--1970
… of urban folkloric versions of rural Andean indigenous musical practices as central emblems of Bolivian national identity. Strikingly, Bolivia is the only country in all of the Americas where the foremost national music prominently and overtly references Amerindian cultural practices---a …