Amazing Facts about Ethnomusicology - Anthropological Perspective
- 2. The Cine-ethnomusicology has been the cinematic research of the music culture. The discipline has been growing in the world of ethnomusicology. Benjamin Harbert has been leading the movement. There will be a cinema on music and the ethnomusicology will be mixed along with the film studies. The music video of ethnomusicology has been researched thoroughly. There are ethnographic filmmaking where the production of music video has been accomplished.
- 3. In majority of the African heritage, there are national values which have been lost. The original nature have been lost to the modernization. It has been explored in Nigeria. It has been found other than musical field. It has been found in the humanities and arts. The top problems of the Nigerian researchers are to encounter the problem associated with the documentation. It was related to the poor research result in Nigeria. If we observe from the historical view point, the Pre- colonial period till the post-colonial period, we come across the music of Nigeria. The music shows suffering due to low quality archives. There has been poor documentation because of the deficiency in the right education on those archives.
- 4. The knowledge is poor on those documentation. This had created significant loss in the musical cultural values at the time of the change. The memory is kept through the right archiving. The past is recorded properly and the development in the future can be accomplished. The knowledge system has been inevitable. There is a reputation of the ethnomusicologist across the world for the research in science. They check the nature and reason behind the practices of music. There is a major role in the implementation of the right system of those archiving. The practices of music must be documented in Nigeria
- 5. The research assists in exposing along with details of science. There are roles associated with ethnomusicology for enhancing the system of knowledge on those archives. There has been documentation of those practices of music found in Nigeria.
- 6. The condition of the pop music has been researched in the ethnomusicology of North America. There has been evaluation for 25 years. With the expansion of late 1990s along with early 2000s, we found the music research in the field of ethnomusicology. We found the developments at the intellectual level. It had created a challenge in the liberal inclusionism. It controlled the discipline at this period. There were developments where the writers were checked. It consists of growth in the critical approach in the humanistic inquiry. There are ideas on culture and media with the development of neoliberal university.
- 7. There has been shift in the reception in the research of pop music. The ethnomusicologists are studying them and the research papers have been showing change. There has been institutional history which has been regarded as the starting point. We have found the project talking about ethnomusicology position in different disciplines of music for the academy of North America. We have found debate in formation of Popular Music Section in Society for Ethnomusicology. We have also explored the relationship between PMSSEM along with International Association for the Study of Popular Music.
- 8. There has been interplay between the two elements. These elements are residual as well as emergent type on intellectual culture for the present discipline. The researcher checks the reciprocities along with the associated tensions among the liberal inclusionism. There has been critique of radical culture. There is productive resistance in the ethnomusicologist. We have found the idea of the pop music along with the ethnocentrism charges. There has been a standardization in the popular music ethnomusicology. We have come across the various ways for question related to populism during the present politics of culture in ethnomusicology.
- 9. The violence has been symbolic and physical in nature. It had created peripheral populations along with the favela residents located in Brazil. The researcher talks about participatory methodology. They were prevalent in the ethnomusicology of Brazil. There has been transformative action. We have found some landmarks in trajectory. The report had taken initiative where there is development of perspective from 2011. The research has been produced along with the projects of extension. This was found in urban youth from those communities. They encountered violence. The communities witnessed the exploration along with the inequalities.
- 10. We have found the metropolitan region known as Baixada Fluminense or Rio de Janeiro in Brazil. There were initiatives which have been shared by the group named Escuta Baixada. They utilized the Popular Education along with the tools of the Popular Audiovisual production. The construct self- representations have been gained. There is major reflections of those musicians and student. We have found residents where the proof of the awareness at the physical level has been accomplished.
- 11. We have observed the symbolic violence in the causes. They have produced those elites in the economic level. Additionally, there is verification of the presence and there were participants for the political activism, It has been shown to be affecting network on the musical production. There is also cultural production in parts of the population of Baixada Fluminense. These group of population has fought against different types of social stigma.
- 12. The issue of citizenship has been explored. We have found the acknowledgement in the cultural contribution. The results have been evaluated. There is feedback for work in population. We have thought the application of participatory ethnomusicology. It occurred in group of Escuta Baixada work. It has been successful in the production associated with the research for interests of Baixada dwellers.
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