Everyday Musical Life among the Indigenous Bunun, Taiwan
Synopsis
Everyday Musical Life among the Indigenous Bunun, Taiwan contributes to multidisciplinary research on music in everyday human life by pushing beyond the urbanized Western populations routinely featured in such writing. Based on ethnographic study in Buklavu, a village in southern Taiwan mostly inhabited by the indigenous Bunun, the book explores villagers’ contemporaneous musical engagements and pathways, paying heed both to imported music—such as TV theme tunes, karaoke singing, church hymns—and to the transformation of Bunun traditions through school and community interventions and folkloric festivals. The case study underpins a new, widely applicable, theoretical model for the study of music in everyday life in global society which is historically engaged, sensitive to individual and group diversity, cognizant of the interplay of the mundane and the exceptional, and primed to support applied research.
- Copyright:
- 2021 Jonathan P.J. Stock, The right of Jonathan P.J. Stock to be identified as author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with sections
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- ISBN-13:
- 9781000376074
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Date of Addition:
- 2021-04-20T19:49:23Z
- Language:
- English
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- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.