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Item ‘My space trips from Chimoio’: Notes about space and temporality in sampling(Springer Nature, 2023-07-27) Conqui, Milton; Rantala, Janne; Horizon 2020This chapter aims to think about sampling, space, and temporality, starting from the metaphor of beat making as a space journey. The notion came up during an interview the authors conducted in Chimoio, a city also known as Vila Perygoza, which is a vibrant city of Hip Hop in central Mozambique’s hinterland, less than 100 km from the Zimbabwean border and 192 km from Beira, another city of Hip Hop. With a nickname that literally means ‘a dangerous village’, it has a distinct sound in the Mozambican Hip Hop movement. While producers in Chimoio as much as anywhere else are sampling elements from all continents, particularly diasporic expressions of jazz, funk, progressive rock, and soul, some artists have preference in sampling local and regional music, to create fragments of music to use in the process of beat making, thus paying tribute towards the music from the hinterland and lands by the Indian Ocean. The method of research is listening to the local Hip Hop beats and related music, reflecting and drawing from our Hip Hop activities and experiences, particularly Milton Conqui’s sampling as well as learning from other local producers; and thus centring artists’ point of view aligned to hiphopography. Because listening is a highly personal state of being and acting, essential also in beat making, this chapter is as much about Hip Hop’s classical quests about ‘who I am’ and ‘where I am’ as it is an ambitious academic quest about sampling.Item Conclusions: New directions in Chinese music research(Oxford University Press, 2023-10-23) Stock, Jonathan P. J.; Stock , Jonathan P. J.; Yu, HuiThe chapter discusses the prospects for Chinese music studies as a global and multilingual discipline. It assesses translation, theory production, co-authoring, and other forms of critical engagement and identifies sample areas where these trends are exemplified in new research: global music history, diaspora, decolonization, intangible cultural heritage.Item Music in the moment, or one day in Buklavu(Routledge, 2021-04-20) Stock, Jonathan P. J.; Chiener, ChouThis chapter presents a range of music that villager or visiting ethnomusicologist alike might encounter on a single day in the village of Buklavu in the mid-2000s. With these various sounds in mind, it's now timely to reflect more theoretically on what this set of usages tell us about the study of music in daily life. In Buklavu and beyond, moments of special musical activity are part of, and are woven into and provide respite from, established daily routines. After lunch, and particularly in the summer months, there's some quiet in Buklavu, as many take a short siesta. It's a moment when a Bunun mother might soothe her infant with soft, comforting singing. In the evenings after work, when the forest was dark, and when waiting onsite some days to clear the weeds that inevitably sprang up around the newly planted saplings, the work teams typically occupied themselves by singing together and making up new songs.Item Ethics in ethnomusicological research: Historical perspectives, emergent challenges(Routledge, 2022-11-30) Stock, Jonathan P. J.It is not surprising that ethical research practices are important in ethnomusicology, given the discipline's foundational interest in the study of music making of diverse peoples worldwide and its reliance upon long-term, immersive fieldwork. After describing why ethics remains a key focus and summarizing the distribution of the book into four parts, this chapter provides a disciplinary history for anglophone ethnomusicology of our engagement with ethics. First, in the period from the formation of the discipline from its several disciplinary predecessors, from the 1880s to the 1960s, we see that while ethical issues sometimes arose in the contact between researcher and researched, they were rarely treated as topics of in-depth, direct consideration. By contrast, in a second phase, embracing the 1970s and 1980s, some ethnomusicologists actively recorded the steps they took to ensure that they were able to form ethical relationships with those whom they studied, and so a new sensitivity to such matters begins to take form. This period overlaps with the so-called crisis of representation in anthropology, and in a third historical phase, from the 1990s onward, new ethical concerns accompany the reflexive turn that entered ethnomusicology at that time. The chapter concludes by noting that current global challenges - conflict, decolonization, democracy, education, environment, gender equality, human rights, migration, security, and more - demand an ethical turn that related the production of close-up, nuanced understandings to collaborative action toward sounder social formations.Item Filming a vocal contest in context: A case study on a form of extemporary sung poetry in Tuscany (Italy)(Zhejiang University Press, 2018-07) D'Amico, Leonardo; Hui, Yu; D'Amico, Leonardo; Defrance, YvesThe contrasto is a traditional performance practice widespread in some rural villages of Maremma, southern Tuscany, Italy. It consists of a vocal challenge between two or more traditional extemporary singer-poets called poeti in ottava rima. The contrasto was traditionally performed in informal convivial gatherings a tavolino (at the table) in peasant societies, but in the last decades it has become a theatrical performance in which the poeti increasingly perform sul palco (on stage) in front of an audience, in planned festivals. My paper is intended to highlight the relevance of the visual dimension in a vocal extemporary performance whose codes are orally-aurally-visually transmitted, in which the interaction between the extemporary poets and the audience tend to condition, influence and sometimes determine, the development of the performance. In such a case, the audiovisual recording becomes an essential research tool allowing to "catch" the visual dimension of this context sensitive performance in its multidimensionality and with all contextual dynamics that it implies.