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Playing it dangerously : tambura bands, race, and affective block in Croatia and its intimates / Ian MacMillen.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- MacMillen, Ian, author.
- Series:
- Music/culture.
- Music/culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Popular music--Croatia--History and criticism.
- Popular music.
- Popular music--Social aspects--Croatia.
- Ethnomusicology--Croatia.
- Ethnomusicology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (297 pages : illustrations, music).
- Place of Publication:
- Middletown, Connecticut : Wesleyan University Press, [2019]
- Summary:
- Playing It Dangerously' questions what happens when feelings attached to popular music conflict with expressions of the dominant socio-cultural order, and how this tension enters into the politics of popular culture at various levels of human interaction. Tambura is a genre-crossing performance practice centered on an eponymous stringed instrument, part of the mandolin family, that Roma, Croats, and Serbs adopted from Ottoman forces. The acclamation that one is a "dangerous player" connotes exceptional virtuosic improvisation and rapid finger technique and, as the highest praise that a musician can receive from his peers. Tambura has served as a site of both contestation and reconciliation since its propagation as Croatia's national instrument during the 1990s Yugoslav wars. This study combines ethnographic fieldwork with archival research and music analysis to expound affective block: a theory of the dialectical dynamics between affective and discursive responses to differences in playing styles.
- Contents:
- Introduction : Dangerous playing and affective block
- Tamburaši and "sacral buildings" on a Balkanizing peninsula
- Whiteness and becoming among tambura bands of the American Rust Belt
- Feeling and knowing race in Postwar Croatian music
- Young men, rituals of power, and conscription into intimacy's assemblages
- Metaphysics, musical space, and the outside
- Musical affect and the political beyond.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-263) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780819579034
- 0819579033
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