Global Musical Modernisms is a forum for all forms of music received and appropriated as “modern” in any location around the globe, crossing the boundaries of post/tonality and musical genres. The focus is on art, avant-garde, experimental, modernist, and popular music, by global (African, Middle Eastern, Central/ South/ Southeast/ East Asian, Latin American, Australasian etc.) music-makers, minority music-makers from the West, and music-makers from the peripheries of Europe and North America.
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Oksana Nesterenko started the topic CFP Special Session on Decolonizing New Music in the Post-Soviet space in the discussion
Global Musical Modernisms on Humanities Commons 3 months agoUntil recently, studies about Russian composers have dominated music scholarship on the countries of the former Soviet Union. Postcolonial theory can provide a useful framework to expanding research on music repertoire from the former Soviet Republics. The SMT Global Interculturalism and Musical Peripheries Interest Group is planning to propose a…[Read more]
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Global Musical Modernisms: on Humanities Commons 3 months, 2 weeks agoBy Lena HENG and WANG Mengqi
Perceptual principles and orchestration
Opening his paper about the psychological constraints on form-bearing dimensions in music, McAdams observes that, from a listener’s p […]
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Gavin Lee wrote a new post Laci Boldemann, Black Is White, Said the Emperor (1965, in Swedish) in the group
Global Musical Modernisms: on Humanities Commons 3 months, 2 weeks agoBy Ralph P. Locke
We normally think of operas as being either serious or comical. But a number of operas—some familiar, others forgotten—are neither of these. Instead, they are fantastical, dealing with suc […]
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Gavin Lee wrote a new post Paul Ben-Haim (1897-1984), Sweet Psalmist of Israel (Neʻim zmirot Yisraʼel): Three Symphonic Fragments for Orchestra, for harpsichord, harp, and orchestra (1953), published by the Israel Music Institute in the group
Global Musical Modernisms: on Humanities Commons 3 months, 2 weeks agoBy Ralph P. Locke
Composers in many lands in the twentieth century have tried to combine various modernist techniques with elements derived from the folk traditions and religious practices of their own land or […]
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Global Musical Modernisms: on Humanities Commons 3 months, 2 weeks agoBy Eshantha Peiris
Dinuk Wijeratne (b. 1978) is a Canadian composer of South Asian birth and ancestry. While his compositional vocabulary draws upon a wide range of musical concepts and genres, he claims a […]
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Global Musical Modernisms: on Humanities Commons 6 months, 3 weeks agoCaption: Francis Bebey playing a sanza in his home studio c. 1970s. Photo courtesy of the Bebey family.
By Sophie A. Brady
While there has been significant study of European and North American […]
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Gavin Lee wrote a new post Interview with Trans Indigenous Composer Mari Esabel Valverde in the group
Global Musical Modernisms: on Humanities Commons 6 months, 3 weeks agoMari Esabel Valverde is one of 13 transgender composers—and to my knowledge, the only trans BIPOC composer—in the US who are listed in the Institute for Composer Diversity database. You can find more inf […]
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Global Musical Modernisms: on Humanities Commons 6 months, 3 weeks agoBy Gavin Lee
“Global musical modernisms” is a term I proposed to the US Society for Music Theory’s Global Interculturalism and Musical Peripheries interest group (formerly the Global New Music group), co-fo […]
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Global Musical Modernisms: on Humanities Commons 6 months, 3 weeks agoBjörn Heile
The Nigerian composer Akin Euba (28 April 1935 – 14 April 2020) described his mission as the creation of an ‘African Art Music’. This, he explained, would be ‘a form of music [that is] universa […]
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Global Musical Modernisms: on Humanities Commons 11 months, 1 week agoWhite Anti-Racists Teach Me About Race and Dispose of BIPOCs
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In Nice Racism, Robin DiAngelo details how white liberals end up being racist. By rushing to prove one’s anti-racism, e.g. by c […]
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