Rethinking the Urban Community

(Re) Mapping Musical Processes and Places

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  • Kay Kaufman Shelemay

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14712/12128112.3511

Klíčová slova:

urban, community, diaspora, music, Ethiopians

Abstrakt

Urban musical research continues to present theoretical and methodological challenges. This paper suggests a revised approach to the study of the urban diaspora community, mapping ways in which musical processes have been instrumental in shaping the cultural places central to the development of the Ethiopian diaspora community. Following cultural geography's attention to "place-making" rather than residential proximity as the locus of community formation, the discussion tracks aspects of musical transmission and performance that have helped generate, shape, and sustain new communities among Ethiopians in the diaspora.

Biografie autora

Kay Kaufman Shelemay

is the G. Gordon Watts Professor of Music and Professor of African and African American Studies at Harvard University and a specialist in music of Ethiopia and its global diaspora. The author of many books and articles, she has been awarded the ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award, the Prize of the International Musicological Society, the Jaap Kunst Prize, and many major fellowships and grants. A past president of the Society for Ethnomusicology, Shelemay is currently preparing the third edition of her textbook, Soundscapes, and is writing a book on Ethiopian music and musicians in transnational motion. At Harvard University, Shelemay has received both the Joseph R. Levenson Memorial Teaching Prize and the Phi Beta Kappa Teaching Prize.

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Publikováno

2012-07-01

Jak citovat

Kaufman Shelemay, K. (2012). Rethinking the Urban Community: (Re) Mapping Musical Processes and Places. Lidé města, 14(2), 207-226. https://doi.org/10.14712/12128112.3511

Číslo

Vol 14 No 2 (2012)

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