Event overview
Today's ethnomusicology pathway session is a talk and film showing of "Beyond Text: Growing into Music"
Children who grow up in oral musical contexts such as the families of hereditary musical specialists commonly learn the body-language of music before they learn music itself. Throughout infancy and childhood they absorb the mannerisms of performance practice and the physical and social graces befitting of musicians. Learning music is accomplished by osmosis and imitation, largely without conscious intent. Children develop an unselfconscious musical confidence born of inherited or deeply nurtured authority.
"Growing into Music" is a three-year project funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Board. Its main participants are Lucy Durán, Geoff Baker and Nicolas Magriel. This largely video-based project focuses on musical enculturation in the oral traditions of Mali, Senegal, Cuba, Venezuela, Azerbaijan, Afghanistan and India. Today Nicolas Magriel will be showing exciting films about children of the Rajasthani (manganiyar and langa) and Hindustani (classical) musical cultures of North India— films which summarise 90 hours of video filmed in the winter of 2009.
In 2010 and 2011 further events will chart the musical progress of the children whom we meet today.
Dr Nicolas Magriel is a player of the North Indian sarangi as well as a scholar who has published extensively on various aspects of Indian music.
All welcome
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 10 Nov 2009 | 4:15pm - 6:00pm |
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