SOSC 4510 Chapter --: Seminar 12 - Nov 26 - Popular Music & Transformation of the Traditional
13 Apr 2016
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Waterman, our tradition is very modern tradition: popular music and the construction of pan. How to represent the embedding of richly described local cultural words in larger impersonal systems of political economy. Outside forces are an integral part of the construction and constitution of the inside, the cultural unit itself and must be registered at the most intimate levels of cultural process. Contemporary music in the production of cultural identity among the yoruba of southwest nigeria. All human identities are from an historical point of view mixed, relational and conjectural. The notion of syncretism introduced into ethnomusicology from anthropological acculturation theory after ww2, cast a more positive light upon music change and has frequently been deployed in analyses of african popular music. When ethnomusicologists write about traditional yoruba music they are generally referring either to a core set of genres disseminated over a wide area by the indigenous empires of the.
