ANTH398D - Ethnomusicology

Meeting 8 – PerformedOctober 23, 2007

Project Plans

• Insights in questions• Links with course• Ethnographic/holistic/contemporary

significance• "About people" (instead of "about music")

Artivistic

• UN.OCCUPIED SPACES (October 25-27)• 5455 de Gaspé 701• Artivistic is an international transdisciplinary

three-day gathering on the interPlay between art, information and activism.

• Artivistic.org

Vocal Anthropology

Language

• Motivation/arbitrariness• Iconicity/indexicality• Tropes/metaphors

Speech

• Speech and song (List)• Oronyms and misheard lyrics (eggcorns)

Voice

• Embodied• Social • Literary (Bakhtin)

Sound

• Sound symbolism• Spectrograms• Naming and perception• Specialised terminology• Synesthesia (sensory modalities)

Aesthetics

• Philosophy of art• Shared understanding• Encoded in speech about music• Embedded ethnocentrism

Performance (Bauman)

• Marked/Unmarked• Heightened

Research

• Case studies• Classifying data• Fieldwork reciprocity

Scholars

• Feld• Basso• Ladefoged• Zemp