Published: 2019-12-03

INDONESIAN MUSIC-CULTURE AS A PERSONAL AND RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

Marzanna Popławska

Abstract

In this article, I address music – that is, humanly and purposefully organized sound (Blacking 1973; Shelemay 2001) – as a personal, cultural and research experience. Drawing on my experience of learning, researching and performing Indonesian music, I discuss several issues that are pertinent to the ethnomusicological/anthropological study of non-native music-cultures. I examine the concept of bi-musicality, its challenges and limitations; the role of a phenomenological perspective and hermeneutics in conceptualizing the complexities of music experience and meaning in music; and the role of music in shaping identity, especially at the community level.

Keywords:

ethnomusicology, music anthropology, Indonesian music, Christian music, musical meaning, intonation, reflexivity, experience of music, identity and music

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Popławska, M. (2019). INDONESIAN MUSIC-CULTURE AS A PERSONAL AND RESEARCH EXPERIENCE. Ethnologia Polona, 39, 71–89. Retrieved from https://journals.iaepan.pl/ethp/article/view/2004

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