HMU111H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Bruno Nettl, First Boer War, Afrikaners
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Use deployment: when, where, and how music is deployed. Function deeper purpose: why it is and what it means. Subject / subjectivity (our view of the world, experiences, reactions to things as we interact with society) Social identity = identification with a specific social position. Heritage, language, political affiliation, occupation, gender, age all contribute to our identity. Ethnicity: socially-defined category made up of individuals with shared social experiences owing to their common ancestry, history and culture. Martin stokes (musicologist): ethnicities are to be understood in terms of the construction, maintenance and negotiation of boundaries, and not on the putative social. Essences" which fill the gaps between them. easier to define identity when we see how it differs from others" identities. The exploitation of difference? (british colonists in west africa promoted tribal identities & traditional musics, not urban creole identity. The creole mercantile elites threatened british trading interests. )
