CMNS 321 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Franz Liszt, Tangled, Music Of Africa
22 Jan 2018
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The medieval period (400-1400): the jongleur or wandering minstrel was an all around entertainer (musician juggler story teller magician acrobat etc) hired to perform in private homes and at events. They were considered to be social outsiders (nomads), condemned by the church for paganism and supposed. The church was the central authority if you were part of the church, you belonged, if you didn"t, you were an outcast. Jongleurs carried with them ideas they were the first reporters; their mobility represented an important way that information circulated. He was music and the spectacle of the body. He alone created it, carried it with him, and completely organized its circulation within society. jacques. His body carried around music with it, if you were aside him during performance, you would hear, otherwise you"d miss it. The griots, like jongleurs, functioned as traveling cultural historians news distributors political propagandists, and as entertainers.
