Cross-Cultural Collaboration in Popular Music
Cross-Cultural Collaboration in Popular Music
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Cross-cultural collaboration in popular music represents opportunities for the audibility of multiple voices and the creation of new sounds, but it also presents many challenges. These challenges are both musical – that is, how to technically match voices – and ethical – that is, how to negotiate historically entrenched power discrepancies. Practice-based research has recently developed as a field in popular music studies. This burgeoning area has much to offer in terms of new knowledge, based on embodied insights, lived experience, and an arts practice. Through a practitioner-centred account of three projects involving traditional Persian and Vietnamese musicians, and western folk/rock musicians, this Element suggests pragmatic strategies and conceptual frameworks for making pop music with people of different cultural backgrounds.
Product details
January 2025Hardback
9781009454117
86 pages
229 × 152 × 6 mm
0.265kg
Available
Table of Contents
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Practice-based research methodologies
- 3. Cross-Cultural music making and co-produced research: literature and context
- 4. Collaborators' backgrounds
- 5. Project 1: songs from Northam avenue
- 6. Project 2: song khúc lýợn bay/ two sounds gliding
- 7. Project 3: I felt the valley lifting
- 8. Conclusions
- References.
