The primary objective of the SMT Analysis of World Music Interest Group is to provide a unique interdisciplinary platform from which to explore the panoply of global musical traditions, both past and present, that lie outside the purview of Western art music from the broadest possible array of theoretical, cultural, historical and analytical perspectives. This group is allied with the SEM Special Interest Group on Analysis of World Music and the organization Analytical Approaches to World Music (AAWM).
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Daphne Leong started the topic CFP: Rhythm in Music since 1900 in the discussion
Society for Music Theory Analysis of World Music Interest Group on Humanities Commons 9 months, 3 weeks agoOn the heels of the exciting AAWM symposium series (June 2023) on rhythm and meter in world musics, we are pleased to announce:
Rhythm in Music since 1900
22-24 September, 2023
Schulich School of Music, McGill University
Call for presentations
Submission deadline: 1 May 2023
Keynote speakers:
- Nicole Lizée, compose…
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Ryan Lynus Revoredo Chocano started the topic Investigation of perceptual structuring in Latin American popular music in the discussion
Society for Music Theory Analysis of World Music Interest Group on Humanities Commons 1 year, 2 months agoHello, I would like to share a research work from 2006 (in Spanish) that is the product of research on perception in popular and academic music. In this article I focus on examples of popular music that include some folk expressions and other examples of commercial music. In general terms, it is proposed that an optimized combination of structures…[Read more]
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Arun Luthra started the topic Songs of the India independence movement in the Carnatic music tradition in the discussion
Society for Music Theory Analysis of World Music Interest Group on Humanities Commons 1 year, 3 months agoHello, Everyone–
My video file is too large to attach to this post, so here is the link to my social media post: https://twitter.com/ArunLuthra/status/1559252306738049026.
Can anyone point me in the direction of recordings, oral histories, writing, etc. on the type of songs which V. Sriram is talking about in this interview? The video is an ex…[Read more]
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Gavin S. K. Lee deposited Postcolonial Affect: Ambiguous Relationality in Robert Casteels’s L’(autre) fille aux cheveux de Bali in the group
SMT Analysis of World Music Interest Group on Humanities Commons 3 years, 11 months agoJournal of the Royal Musical Association 140.2 (2015): 417-443 (published by the UK musicology society). Robert Casteels (b. 1958, Belgium), Singapore citizen, migrated in 1995, L’(autre) fille aux cheveux de Bali (2002).
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Gavin S. K. Lee deposited Postcolonial Bifurcation: On John Sharpley’s Emptiness in the group
SMT Analysis of World Music Interest Group on Humanities Commons 3 years, 11 months agoMusic Analysis 38.3 (2019): 316-357 (published by the UK Society for Music Analysis)
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Anna Wang started the topic Notes from the 2019 AWMIG Meeting in the discussion
Society for Music Theory Analysis of World Music Interest Group on Humanities Commons 4 years agoAt the 2019 meeting of the SMT in Columbus, Ohio, the Analysis of World Music Interest Group hosted a workshop to discuss how music theorists can meaningfully represent diverse global and vernacular musics in our classrooms. The first part of the workshop consisted of pedagogical demonstrations given by Jane Clendinning, Richard Cohn, Daniel…[Read more]
