Urbanity and Ethnomusicology; a Perspective from Singapore












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            * Eugene Dairianathan
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            Abstrakt

            Although Bruno Nettl's reassurances that concerns within ethnomusicology have not necessit
            of the prefix "new" to the discipline, we are reminded that the discipline, exemplified in
            musical practices explored and examined, could benefit from continued questioning of under

            (Stock 2008). Ethnomusicological studies, for example, tend to situate the affects and eff
            in particular ways that pose considerable challenges for an inevitably heterogeneous urban


            On the other hand, an urban environment studied qualitatively is a potential revelation of
            socio-cultural, political, economic and musical trajectories. Urban environments can there

            as interactions between sites of dwelling and acts of dwelling. If musical practices and c
            of-practice are embodied relationships, then the body as sensorium is a potentially rich s
            of heterogeneous dwellings, making soundscapes ways of understanding embodiment of practic

            ity. If ethnomusicology claims involvement and observation in and of musical behaviors, mu
            can be discerned through spatial dynamics between acts of dwelling and sites of dwelling. 
            ethnomusicology could then be extended to cultures whose points of origin are sites and ac


            Using two musical practices, Xinyao and Vedic Metal, from the city-state Singapore, I offe
            on the prospects and challenges in negotiating urbanity in ethnomusicology in theory and p


            Klíčová slova
            Xinyao; Vedic Metal; Singapore; urbanity; ethnomusicology


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