Voicing the unheard
Subtitle: music as windows for minorities : proceedings of Rennes' Symposium ICTM study group Music and minorities, 4-8 July 2016
By: Yves Defrance ; International council for traditional music
Series: Anthropologie et musique
Publisher: L'Harmattan
Published: 2019
Place of publication: Paris
Language: eng
Number of pages: 343
ISBN-13: 9782343179070
Copyright date: 2019
Subjects: Music; Social aspects; Congresses; Minorities; Ethnomusicology; Songs and music
Description: "In this book, researchers give the floor to people of minorities in the world who, through their music, express their will to assert their identity. Whether they are immigrants or a minorized population on their own land, musicians often champion a discourse that is both nostalgie and affirmative of a difference. Difference with the prevailing environment, often in a nation-state, which tries to assimilate its minorities as it is the case with the Kaale in Finland, but also for a minority positioning itself within a minority. These new approaches are the subject of unpublished studies whether they concern Christian Arabs in Israel, Muslims in Bali, Kurds and Alevis considered as Turks in Germany, or Dalit women in India. How to promote these differences? Mediatisation by means of record productions or radio programs is still working. We see it through the provocative broadcasting of erotic songs from Okinawa in a conservative Japan or through the success of a North Korean band immigrated in South Korea with unheard of neo-political repertoire. The choice for local languages, but also the yet ambivalent big events like the Khamoro festival, devoted to Roma music, give examples of strategies to access recognition. Some 15 papers from recognized researchers coming from 14 different countries put forth situations observed and analyzed on about 20 meaningful cases and fieldworks in the world. All of the articles have an abstract in English, translated into French and in their original native language for some of them."--Page 4 of cover.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Acknowledgements --; title: Editor Introduction (English/Français) --; title: Foreword --; title: Welcoming speech : Brittany a Celtic Country on the Continent --; title: Minorities within minorities --; title: Music and Identity in the Cultural Life of a Young Christian Arab Singer --; title: Silky or Broken Sound ? The Performance and Performativity of North Korean Self-Reliance Singing in South Korea --; title: Music by Suppressed Minorities from Turkey in the Diaspora : Kurdish and Alevi Musicians in Germany --; title: Forming Socio-Cultural Networks through Performing Arts : The Case of Muslims in Bali --; title: Music of minorities in a national context --; title: Finnish Roma (Kaale) as a Part of a National Musical Heritage -- Insiders, Outsiders and Others --; title: Backstage People --; title: A Musical Event and its Meaning in the Polish Community in Vershina, Siberia --; title: Negotiating Animism in Indigenous Ainu Music --; title: Field Report : The Orang Kling of Sumatra 's West Coast and their Musical Self --; title: Dalit Women's Music Performances as a Lens to Study Feminism in India Music and languages --; title: Breton in the "Choir" of Minority Languages Worldwide --; title: "Which language will become extinct ?" -- Early Minority Research and its Meaning Today --; title: LP Record Collections of Japanese Marginal Music in the 1960's -- 1970's : Rô Takenaka and Okinawan Folksong --; title: Music and Local Languages in France.