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- Abstract:
- Applied ethnomusicology inhabits a space at the intersection between the interpretation and promotion of cultural pluralism, and the needs of cultural communities to define and express themselves. Working with immigrant musicians in regional cultural organizations necessarily leads one to mitigate categories of authenticity and tradition that may at times constrain the organic and evolving nature of the expression of cultural identity through performance. I discuss issues of ethnography and self-presentation arising from my work with immigrant community artists in New York.
Citation
van Buren, Tom,
"'El Campo en el Studio': The Auto-Ethnography of Immigrant Music Traditions From Creation to Re-Creation"
(2003).
Invested in Community.
Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library.
https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:1067123/
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Invested in Community
Brown University's Department of Music hosted the first conference on Applied Ethnomusicology. Participants from Europe and the United States discussed various ways in which Ethnomusicologists work directly in and on behalf of communities outside of academia. This project provides streaming …...