Ethnomusicology in the Audiovisual World: Theoretical and Educational Applications

• Nick Poulakis ^[1]
  1. [1] National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

     National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

     Dimos Athens, Grecia

     
• Localización: Ethnomusicology and audiovisual communication: selected papers from the MusiCam 2014 Symposium / coord. por Enrique Cámara de Landa, Leonardo D'Amico, Matías Isolabella, Yoshitaka Terada, 2016, ISBN 978-84-608-9291-5, págs. 157-168
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • During the 70s, Sol Worth introduced the “anthropology of visual communication” as a main theoretical and methodological tool for systematic research on culture in symbolic and semiotic terms and for anthropological analysis through audiovisual (especially filmic) representations. However, while cinema is based mainly on visual and virtual metaphors, music is a distinctive aural phenomenon which at first sight does not have representational but rather performative qualities. The study of music art and music culture and the formation of an appropriate theoretical and methodological discourse are placed at the center of dialogue within contemporary ethnomusicological and anthropological debates. On the basis of examples from specific music cultures which are used in the academic classroom, this chapter emphasizes various issues concerning filmic representations of music as a non-representational art, providing at the same time a brief outline of an already implemented syllabus for ethnomusicological and anthropological film education.