Music, dance and memory: Towards deliberation of field research of dance
Although ethnochoreology and ethnomusicology as related academic disciplines have decades-long histories, reviewing and redefining their basic epistemological and methodological principles remained one of the main focuses of disciplinary discussion. Most ethnochoreologists and ethnomusic...
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Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts - Institute of Musicology of Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts
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| description | Although ethnochoreology and ethnomusicology as related academic disciplines
have decades-long histories, reviewing and redefining their basic
epistemological and methodological principles remained one of the main
focuses of disciplinary discussion. Most ethnochoreologists and
ethnomusicologist agrees that “field” work (in all its traditional and
contemporary forms) remains an essential and constitutive quality of their
research and disciplinary fields. The inherent interdisciplinary networking
of ethnochoreology and ethnomusicology starts from the theoretical premise
that the relationship between the kinetic and musical components of dance is
not only unbreakable, but also interactive, and that complex and dynamic
manifestations of dance performances represents an expressive medium through
which a particular community constructs and represents itself. Since the
importance of the individual experience of researchers has been ephasized
during the last few decades, a comprehensive method of participant
observation remains a central and unifying aspect of fieldwork, both in
ethnochoreology and ethnomusicology. Based on field research of musical and
dance practices of the village of Svinica (Sviniţa) in Romania, this paper
reviews the application and combination of various methods of field research
(observation, participation in the performance process, filming, interviews
and writing field notes) as the primary tools for the acquisition and shaping
of scientific knowledge about dance and music. Issues that will be discussed
include the following questions: What are the advantages of personal
kinetic/auditory experience during simultaneous perception of dance movement
and dance music? How can different methods of field research be combined in
order to improve cognitive processes? Are there border areas between
ethnochoreological and ethnomusicological fieldwork? Does the variety of
methods of field research represents a weakness of the interdisciplinary
approach or its advantage? On which information recorded during the fieldwork
does a researcher usually build his post-field
ethnochoreological/ethnomusical narratives? Through discussion of all these
issues, particular emphasis will therefore be placed on the consideration of
processes of memorization (visual, auditory and kinetic) when applying the
method of participation in the dance performance. [Projekat Ministarstva
nauke Republike Srbije, br. 177024: Muzička i igračka tradicija multietničke
i multikulturalne Srbije] |
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| spelling | doaj.art-60deaebc2bed486586e10c971f2be0b72022-12-21T18:33:01ZengSerbian Academy of Sciences and Arts - Institute of Musicology of Serbian Academy of Sciences and ArtsMuzikologija1450-98142406-09762015-01-01201519516410.2298/MUZ1519051R1450-98141519051RMusic, dance and memory: Towards deliberation of field research of danceRakočević Selena0Fakultet muzičke umetnosti, BeogradAlthough ethnochoreology and ethnomusicology as related academic disciplines have decades-long histories, reviewing and redefining their basic epistemological and methodological principles remained one of the main focuses of disciplinary discussion. Most ethnochoreologists and ethnomusicologist agrees that “field” work (in all its traditional and contemporary forms) remains an essential and constitutive quality of their research and disciplinary fields. The inherent interdisciplinary networking of ethnochoreology and ethnomusicology starts from the theoretical premise that the relationship between the kinetic and musical components of dance is not only unbreakable, but also interactive, and that complex and dynamic manifestations of dance performances represents an expressive medium through which a particular community constructs and represents itself. Since the importance of the individual experience of researchers has been ephasized during the last few decades, a comprehensive method of participant observation remains a central and unifying aspect of fieldwork, both in ethnochoreology and ethnomusicology. Based on field research of musical and dance practices of the village of Svinica (Sviniţa) in Romania, this paper reviews the application and combination of various methods of field research (observation, participation in the performance process, filming, interviews and writing field notes) as the primary tools for the acquisition and shaping of scientific knowledge about dance and music. Issues that will be discussed include the following questions: What are the advantages of personal kinetic/auditory experience during simultaneous perception of dance movement and dance music? How can different methods of field research be combined in order to improve cognitive processes? Are there border areas between ethnochoreological and ethnomusicological fieldwork? Does the variety of methods of field research represents a weakness of the interdisciplinary approach or its advantage? On which information recorded during the fieldwork does a researcher usually build his post-field ethnochoreological/ethnomusical narratives? Through discussion of all these issues, particular emphasis will therefore be placed on the consideration of processes of memorization (visual, auditory and kinetic) when applying the method of participation in the dance performance. [Projekat Ministarstva nauke Republike Srbije, br. 177024: Muzička i igračka tradicija multietničke i multikulturalne Srbije]http://www.doiserbia.nb.rs/img/doi/1450-9814/2015/1450-98141519051R.pdfnema |
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