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31 Cards in this Set
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William Thoms
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coined the term 'folklore' in 1846
said it was a 'good Saxon compound' 'Volkskunde' his definition was about our history, traditions. not material culture |
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Alan Dundes
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defined folk as any group of people who share at least one common factor
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the study of folklore categories
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1) oral literature
2) material culture 3) social customs 4) performing arts 5) music (ethnom.) |
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categories of culture
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Elite (academic): learned foramlly through society's institutions
Popular: learned informally through mass media Folk (Traditional): learned by word of mouth, observation, family, etc. |
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ethnomusicology
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the study of music of all types and from all cultures
'it explores the role of music in human life , analyzes relationships between music and culture, and studies music cross culturally' makes sense of what the practitioners define as music |
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comparative musicology
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Late 1800's: branch of musicology, studying science of music of 'ethnic others'
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anthropology of music
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differing in approach to music sound and music in/of culture; emphasis on fieldwork
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A.J. Ellis
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founding father of ethnomusicology
it's not nature, but socially and culturally variable |
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Paradigmatic practices of ethno.
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1) scientific observation
2) experimentation 3) fieldwork 4) seeing ourselves in the other and the other in ourselves |
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Majors Concerns of ethno.
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-problems posed by the participant observer
- the functions that music serves in societies - the enculturation and music ed. w/in societies - the biology and cognition of music making - music psychology and musicality - syncritism and acculturation |
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what did the spreading of world music do in terms of revival?
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revival of a more comparative approach
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Genre, TYPE
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a conventional discourse type
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Genre, PURPOSE
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classification based on patterns; comprehending types or kinds
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4 branches of folkloristics
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oral, gestural, customary, material
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Complex folktales (multiple episodes)
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Marchen, novella, religious, trickster tale
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Simple folktales (single episodes)
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jocular, formula tale, fable
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Legend
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prose narratives set in the present or recent past, believed, set in 'real world', reatlistic characters
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myth
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(sacred) narrative set in teh distant past- origin tales often directive of social norms
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personal narrative
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first person accounts about a personal experience, Content isnt traditional
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epic
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narratives involving culture heroes- sung by bards in poetic verse
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Dance (gestural)
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choreographed movement to music or genre itself
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kinetic (gestural)
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movement with embodied signification
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festival (customary)
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regularly ocuring cultural performerances, public and large scale, community participation
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ritual (customary)
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category of symbolic behavior, regularly performed, can be associated with religion or stage in different complex?
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foodways (customary)
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appropriate dietary, nutritional, or celebratory feeding/eating habits
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Archer Taylor
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had 4 techniques of labeling as a riddle:
- opposition - incomplete details - jamming - false Gestalt |
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culture
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learned and shared behaviors of social groups
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Glassie's def. of tradition
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the creation of the future out of the past (395)
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authenticity
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the issue of what is authentic: big issue with tradition and culture. von Herder dealt with this in the textual criticism of sacred narrative and its authenticity
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Titon's def of folk song
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are shared among the folk groups as events in the home or community gathering places in which most people take an active role, interacting as listeners, players, dancers, and singers (168)
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folk song aesthetics
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isorythm, repetition, rhythmic stress in melodic performances, very limited embellishments,
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