People and sounds": filming African music between visual anthropology and television documentary

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Main Author: Leonardo D´Amico
Format: Artículo científico
Language:en
Published: Sociedad de Etnomusicología 2007
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author Leonardo D´Amico
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contents People and sounds": filming African music between visual anthropology and television documentary Leonardo D´Amico Arte ethnomusicology documentary film visual anthropology Watching music, and not only listening to or writing about it, is a priority to deepen in theknowledge of traditional music both in Europe and elsewhere. Since visual anthropology wasborn, there have been different ways to convey this idea. Through a review of the documentaryfilms produced from the fifties until the present time, the paper shows the historical changes onthe film industry priorities with regard to world music portrayals. The dialectal tension betweenfictional and ethnographic approaches has been a constant. This paper supports the premisethat auteur films can reach ethnomusicological level, although not being scientific, and have anadded poetical value of great help in this field 2007 artículo científico 1697-0101 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=82201106 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=822 Trans. Revista Transcultural de Música application/pdf Sociedad de Etnomusicología Trans. Revista Transcultural de Música (España) Num.11
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spellingShingle People and sounds": filming African music between visual anthropology and television documentary
Leonardo D´Amico
Arte
ethnomusicology
documentary film
visual anthropology
People and sounds": filming African music between visual anthropology and television documentary Leonardo D´Amico Arte ethnomusicology documentary film visual anthropology Watching music, and not only listening to or writing about it, is a priority to deepen in theknowledge of traditional music both in Europe and elsewhere. Since visual anthropology wasborn, there have been different ways to convey this idea. Through a review of the documentaryfilms produced from the fifties until the present time, the paper shows the historical changes onthe film industry priorities with regard to world music portrayals. The dialectal tension betweenfictional and ethnographic approaches has been a constant. This paper supports the premisethat auteur films can reach ethnomusicological level, although not being scientific, and have anadded poetical value of great help in this field 2007 artículo científico 1697-0101 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=82201106 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=822 Trans. Revista Transcultural de Música application/pdf Sociedad de Etnomusicología Trans. Revista Transcultural de Música (España) Num.11
title People and sounds": filming African music between visual anthropology and television documentary
topic Arte
ethnomusicology
documentary film
visual anthropology
url https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=82201106