Musical Aspects of Popular Music and Pop Sunda in West Javaглава из книги
Аннотация: Introduction: Sundanese Music and the Technology of EnchantmentResearch on popular music, particularly in the field of cultural studies, has tended to focus on political and sociological aspects, to the exclusion of musical structures and actual sounds.Whereas in most societies musical genres are in the first place classified by social criteria, it is undeniable that also the technicalities of the music play a role: audiences hear the differences between, for instance, jaipongan and degung kawih performances.This is because these musics are produced in different ways, using different instruments, tone material, musical structure, etc.Alfred Gell made an important contribution to the anthropological study of art by pointing out that the production of art is a technological process.He mentions that there are 'beautiful' things, like beautiful women, beautiful horses and a beautiful sunset.However, art objects are made 'beautiful' by human beings and this requires technology.He criticizes sociologists like Pierre Bourdieu, who do not really look at an art object as a concrete product of human ingenuity, but only elaborately look at the represented symbolic meanings (Gell 1999:162).In contrast, Gell proposes that anthropologists should look at art as a 'component of technology.'We call something an object of art if it is the outcome of a technological process, the kind of processes in which artists are skilled.Gell (1999:163) considers the different art forms -painting, sculpting, performing arts, literature, etc. -as components of a vast and often not recognized technical system that is essential for the reproduction of human societies.He calls this system the 'technology of enchantment' .The power of art objects results from the technological processes that they embody, the technology of enchantment is based on the enchantment of technology:
Год издания: 2014
Авторы: Wim van Zanten
Издательство: Brill
Источник: BRILL eBooks
Ключевые слова: Asian Studies and History, Music History and Culture
Открытый доступ: hybrid
Страницы: 321–352