Music as an instrument of making a sociocultural otherness
Abstract
The notion of "music" should be viewed as a svnesthetic concept: impressions about it arc not transmitted exclusively through the sense of hearing, but also to the visual perception. The effect of music can be seen as intellectual and emotional, as a relation towards the played or pronounced at the lyrics, but also towards the very appearance or performance of the musicians, to the musical piece performing and so on. In other words, we do not only communicate by playing and listening to music, but also understanding it in terms of cultural and social phenomenon. Those who use the concept of music understood in such away even do not have to be musicians, because socially and culturally understandable and relevant messages can be transmitted through the simple broadcasting of a certain music audio or video recordings, or by taking a stand towards some musical piece. Music represents a medium to expression of a sociocultural otherness in Western civilization, at least from the Middle Agcs..., but also represents a way of producing that otherness. By producing of otherness, we mean discovered, namely, conscious and intended individual acts to the use of music as a synesthetic concept for the purpose of transmitting a cultural message about a certain kind of otherness in a given sociocultural context, and which, for immediate reference, takes the sender of such a message. Our aim is to present a mechanism of that producing of otherness in such a way, by considering examples to different types of musical pieces (Rock and Roll, film music, classical music, etc.), different types of otherness (ontological, political, ethnical, etc.) and different sociocultural contexts from closer and further past, as well as from the present.
Keywords:
Western civilization / otherness / music / cultural communication. / anthropologySource:
Etnoantropološki problemi, 2018, 13, 2, 295-325Publisher:
- Univerzitet u Beogradu - Filozofski fakultet - Odeljenje za etnologiju i antropologiju, Beograd
Funding / projects:
- Identity Politics of the European Union: Customisation and Application in the Republic of Serbia (RS-177017)
- Transformation of Cultural Identities in Contemporary Serbia and the European Union (RS-177018)
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Etnologija i antropologija / Ethnology and AnthropologyTY - JOUR AU - Žikić, Bojan AU - Milenković, Miloš PY - 2018 UR - http://reff.f.bg.ac.rs/handle/123456789/2668 AB - The notion of "music" should be viewed as a svnesthetic concept: impressions about it arc not transmitted exclusively through the sense of hearing, but also to the visual perception. The effect of music can be seen as intellectual and emotional, as a relation towards the played or pronounced at the lyrics, but also towards the very appearance or performance of the musicians, to the musical piece performing and so on. In other words, we do not only communicate by playing and listening to music, but also understanding it in terms of cultural and social phenomenon. Those who use the concept of music understood in such away even do not have to be musicians, because socially and culturally understandable and relevant messages can be transmitted through the simple broadcasting of a certain music audio or video recordings, or by taking a stand towards some musical piece. Music represents a medium to expression of a sociocultural otherness in Western civilization, at least from the Middle Agcs, but also represents a way of producing that otherness. By producing of otherness, we mean discovered, namely, conscious and intended individual acts to the use of music as a synesthetic concept for the purpose of transmitting a cultural message about a certain kind of otherness in a given sociocultural context, and which, for immediate reference, takes the sender of such a message. Our aim is to present a mechanism of that producing of otherness in such a way, by considering examples to different types of musical pieces (Rock and Roll, film music, classical music, etc.), different types of otherness (ontological, political, ethnical, etc.) and different sociocultural contexts from closer and further past, as well as from the present. PB - Univerzitet u Beogradu - Filozofski fakultet - Odeljenje za etnologiju i antropologiju, Beograd T2 - Etnoantropološki problemi T1 - Music as an instrument of making a sociocultural otherness EP - 325 IS - 2 SP - 295 VL - 13 DO - 10.21301/eap.v13i2.1 ER -
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Žikić, B.,& Milenković, M.. (2018). Music as an instrument of making a sociocultural otherness. in Etnoantropološki problemi Univerzitet u Beogradu - Filozofski fakultet - Odeljenje za etnologiju i antropologiju, Beograd., 13(2), 295-325. https://doi.org/10.21301/eap.v13i2.1
Žikić B, Milenković M. Music as an instrument of making a sociocultural otherness. in Etnoantropološki problemi. 2018;13(2):295-325. doi:10.21301/eap.v13i2.1 .
Žikić, Bojan, Milenković, Miloš, "Music as an instrument of making a sociocultural otherness" in Etnoantropološki problemi, 13, no. 2 (2018):295-325, https://doi.org/10.21301/eap.v13i2.1 . .