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5 Propositions of music
- 1. All music is sound
- 2. All music is organized
- 3. It is organized by people
- 4. HIP Human Interpretation and Perception
- 5. Music is tied to Western Culture
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Qur'an
The holy book of Islam
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Tone
a sound whose pricipal identity is a musical identity, as defined by people (though not necessarily all people) who make or experience that sound.
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Ethnocentrism
we cannot help but impose our own culturally grounded perspectives, biases, and assumptions on practices and life ways that are different from our own.
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Ethnomusicology
an interdisciplinary academic field that draws on musicology, anthropology, and other disciplines in order to study the world's music
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Musicultural
phenomenon where music as sound and music as culture are mutually reinforcing, and where the two are essentially insuperable from one another.
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Culture
That complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, law, morals, custom, and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society.
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Identity
Peoples ideas about who they are and what unites them with or distinguishes them from other people and entities.
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Society
A group of persons regarded as forming a single community.
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Nation State vs. Nation
Members of a nation-state share a national society and culture and a national homeland. Canada is a nation-state. Palestine by contrast, is a nation but not a nation-state. They have no homeland.
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Diaspora
An international network of communities linked together by identification with a common ancestral homeland and culture. People in diaspora exist in a condition of living away from their "homeland," often with no gurantee, or even likelihood, of return.
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Virtual Communities
communities forged in the electronic sphere of cyberspace rather than in more conventional ways, represent the latest chapter, in the complex story of transnational identity formation.
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Musical Syncretism
The merging of formerly distinct styles and idioms into new forms of expression.
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Fieldwork
A hallmark of ethnomusicological research.
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Musical Cycles
Patterns that are repeated over and over during the course of a performance while other aspects of the music change and evolve.
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Rituals
Special events during which individuals or communities enact, through performance, their core beliefs, values, and ideals.
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Two basic features of music transmission
Production and Reception
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Composition
Planning out the design of a musical work prior to its performance.
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Interpretation
the process through which music performers or music listeners take an existing composition and in a sense make it their own through the experience of performing or listening to it.
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Improvisation
composing in the moment of performance.
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Arranging
The craft of taking an existing musical work and transforming it into some thing new, while still retaining its core musical identity.
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Tradition
a process, in particular a process of creative transformation whose most remarkable feature is the continuity it nurtures and sustains.
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