Local and global understandings of creativities : multipart music making and the construction of ideas, contexts and contents / edited by Ardian Ahmedaja.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ahmedaja, Ardian.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music--Social aspects.

Music.

Part songs--History and criticism.

Part songs.

Folk music--History and criticism.

Folk music.

Physical Description:

xii, 374 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm + 1 audio disc (digital ; 4 3/4 in._

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2013.

Summary:

In music making "in company", the protagonists have to follow the rules of interaction and create the cohesion of "being together". At the same time, they try to promote personal goals that depend on specific personal treasure troves of experience. These are continuously being modified also as a result of the exchange between individuals. The perspective of the "individuals in company" leads the emphasis of the investigations to the ways in which the acts of performance, interpretation and local discourse give shape to creative processes in multipart music making and to the definition of the individual, collective and collaborative dimensions in this context. Focusing on the "creators" rather than on the "produced object", the studies included in this volume explore the diversity of the roles, powers, symbolism, meanings and values given to the "polyphony of voices" in secular and religious traditions based on extensive fieldwork experience. The contributors to this volume also consider the UNESCO's Intangible Cultural Heritage List in this context, as well as the role of local, national and international awards. By understanding "culture as a drug", whose absorption is realised within interacting cells, culture appears as a cellular network and music as quite an efficient device for its functioning. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part I Multipart Drinking (and Singing): A Case Study in Southern Albania / Bernard Lortat-Jacob Lortat-Jacob, Bernard 2

Part II Multipart Music Practices as Creative Processes

Part II.1 The Construction of Ideas, Contexts and Contents

Secondary Orality and Creativity Processes in Multipart Singing / Ignazio Macchiarella Macchiarella, Ignazio 24

In Quest of Communion: The Dialogic of Multipart Singing / Jean-Jacques Castéret Castéret, Jean-Jacques 42

On Musical Creativity in "Text-oriented" Song Traditions: The Processes of Melodic Variation in Seto Multipart Songs / Zanna Pärtlas Pärtlas, Zanna 60

Production and Process: Creative Acting and Perceiving. A Case Study on Georgian Multipart Singing / Gerda Lechleitner Lechleitner, Gerda, Nona Lomidze Lomidze, Nona 77

Mulitpart Singing, Multilingualism and Mediatization: Identity Issues of the Arberesh Minority of Southern Italy at the beginning of a New Century / Nicola Scaldaferri Scaldaferri, Nicola 89

Waiting for the sea to dry up: The Tragedy of Otranto in the Light of Contemporary Creative Vocal Practices / Eckehard Pistrick Pistrick, Eckehard, Bledar Kondi Kondi, Bledar 101

Part II.2 Procedures, Techniques, Revivals

Female Polyphony in Northern Portugal: A Morphology of the Voices / Anne Caufriez Caufriez, Anne 118

Constructing Communal Action: Multipart Singing in Parallel Fifths in the Western Mediterranean / Jaume Ayats Ayats, Jaume 137

From Monody to Polyphony: A Creative Path inside the Experience of Genoese Trallalero (Italy) / Mauro Balma Balma, Mauro 149

Two Part Singing in Parallel Movement in Romagna: The Present and the Past / Cristina Ghirardini Ghirardini, Cristina 177

Microcreativity: Vocal Releases in cauda as Stylistic Marks in Sardinian a tenore Singing / Paolo Bravi Bravi, Paolo 194

Dimensions of Creativity in the Derivation, Formation and Modification of Musical Practice: The Cycle of Spring Rejoicing Songs in South-West Latvia / Ieva Pane Pane, Ieva 210

Mikarayag: Clapping and Singing Gatherings of the Tao; Individual Creativity within the Collective Act / Wei-Ya Lin Lin, Wei-Ya 232

Folk Music Revival in Argentina: The Arrangement of Vocal Melodies / Enrique Camara de Landa Landa, Enrique Camara de 250

Part III Multipart Music and Religious Practices

Byzantine Chant, the Ison, and Arberesh Liturgical Chant / Eno Koço Koço, Eno 266

Polyphony of Voices in Jewish Religious Traditions / Bozena Muszkalska Muszkalska, Bozena 282

Part IV Local Multipart Music Awarded

Sutartines, Lithuanian Multipart Songs in UNESCO's Intangible Cultural Heritage List: Winning and Risk / Daiva Raciunaite-Vyciniene Raciunaite-Vyciniene, Daiva 294

Multipart Singing in Latvian Traditional Music: Awards and Everyday Practice / Anda Beitane Beitane, Anda 314

Romani Songs as Intangible Cultural Heritage in Austria / Ursula Hemetek Hemetek, Ursula 330.

Notes:

Contributions selected from papers presented at the 2nd Symposium of the Study Group for Multipart Music within the International Council for Traditional Music, Tiranë, Albania, 2012.

Compact disc.

List of audio examples on compact disc on pages 353-361.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1443847410

9781443847414

OCLC:

856964544

Publisher Number:

99955077111