Audiovisual ethnomusicology : filming musical cultures / Leonardo DʹAmico.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

D'Amico, Leonardo, 1969- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Video recordings in ethnomusicology.

Applied ethnomusicology.

Physical Description:

470 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Bern, Switzerland : Peter Lang, [2020]

Summary:

"The growing interest in the visual dimension of musical performance practice and the use of film as a medium of presentation and research in Ethnomusicology is related to the increasingly wide use of visual ethnographic methods of research and representation and to the technological development of modern visual tools used today in field research. Film can document both the aural and visual dimensions of a musical performance and has the capability to represent the lives of musicians in their physical and temporal context, to analyse musical structures and to have an ethnographic approach of musical performance. All features are related to contextualization that can best be communicated and represented by audiovisual means. Audiovisual Ethnomusicology, whose subject is the ethnomusicological film, is being con-figured as a new branch of Ethnomusicology. The main aim of this book is to outline its history, the diverse theoretical and methodological approaches adopted by the ethno-film-makers, as well as the different ways to use the visual medium in the 're-presentation' of musical cultures" --Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: I. Framing Sounds. The Audiovisual Representation of Music

II. The Ethnomusicological Film

II.1. Research film and documentary film

II.2. The world-music film and the ethnomusicological film

II.3. Typology and modes of filmic representation of music

II.3.a. Expository

II.3.b. Observational

II.3.c. Impressionistic

II.3.d. Reflexive

II.4. Taxonomy of filmic content

II.4.a. Thematic world-music/ethnomusicological film

II.4.b. Organological world-music/ethnomusicological film

II.4.c. Biographical world-music/ethnomusicological film

II.5. Fiction, docu-fiction, ethno-clip and experimental documentary

II.6. Ethics and representation in the ethnomusicological film

II.7. The ethnomusicologist, the filmmaker and the ethno-filmmaker

II.8. Uses and functions of the ethnomusicological film

II.8.a. Scientific documentaries: The ethnomusicological film as a research tool

II.8.b. Educational documentaries: The ethnomusicological film with didactic purposes

II.8.c. Informative documentaries: The ethnomusicological film oriented to dissemination

II.9. Audiovisuals as sound footprints

II.9.a. Audiovisual media as a tool for preservation of musical systems and musical cultures

II.9.b. Audiovisual media as a means of cultural transmission

II.9.c. Audiovisual media as a record of musical change

II.9.d. Audiovisual media as a multimedia tool in museums and exhibitions

II.10. Audiovisual archives: preserving sounding images

II.11. Technological developments of audiovisual recording in field work

III. The Styles of the Ethnomusicological Film

III.1. The IWF style

III.2. The CNRS style

III.3. The NFTS style

III.4. Hugo Zemp

IV. Filming Sounds around the World

IV.1. Filming music in sub-Saharan Africa

IV.2. Filming music in India

IV.3. Filming music in China

IV.4. Filming music in the United States

IV.5. Filming music in Latin America

IV.6. Filming music in Australia and Papua New Guinea

IV.7. Filming music in Southern Europe (Italy, Spain and Portugal)

V. Analysis of Sounding Images

V.1. Visualizing music

V.2. Kubik and the frame-by-frame transcription

V.3. Qureshi and the videographic method

V.4. Zemp and the animation techniques

V.5. Lomax and the choreometrics project

VI. Filming Music in Action

VI.1. Filming musical instruments: an ethno-organological comparative study

VI.2. Filming the musical performance: the processes of musical interaction

VI.3. Filming the transmission of musical knowledge: the oral-aural-visual communication process

VII. Music on Screen

VII.1. The audiovisual representation of music on big and small screens

VII.2. Broadcast media and World Music

VII.3. The routes of music: musical road movies and travelogues

VII.4. Sounds of memory: the reunion-style music documentaries

VII.5. Visualizing expats' music: the transnational music documentaries

VII.6. Back home: the "repatriation" music documentaries

VII.7. "Music is the weapon": the politically engaged music documentaries

VII.8. "Music for social change": the socially engaged music documentaries

VII.9. The filmed ethnomusicologists.

Notes:

"This publication is funded by Multi Culti"--t.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [359]-384)

Includes filmography : pages [385]-436.

ISBN:

3034336098

9783034336093

OCLC:

1159483578

Publisher Number:

99987277101