Cross-cultural collaboration in popular music represents opportunities for the audibility of multiple voices and the creation of new sounds, but it also presents many challenges. These challenges are both musical - that is, how to technically match voices - and ethical - that is, how to negotiate historically entrenched power discrepancies. Practice-based research has recently developed as a field in popular music studies. This burgeoning area has much to offer in terms of new knowledge, based on embodied insights, lived experience, and an arts practice. Through a practitioner-centred account of three projects involving traditional Persian and Vietnamese musicians, and western folk/rock musicians, this Element suggests pragmatic strategies and conceptual frameworks for making pop music with people of different cultural backgrounds.
| ISBN: | 9781009454117 |
| Publication date: | 16th January 2025 |
| Author: | Toby Martin, Sayyid Muhammad Riza Biladi, Dang Lan |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 75 pages |
| Series: | Elements in Twenty-First Century Music Practice |
| Genres: |
Popular music Music composition Composers and songwriters Musical scores, lyrics and libretti |
Cross-cultural collaboration in popular music represents opportunities for the audibility of multiple voices and the creation of new sounds, but it also presents many challenges. These challenges are both musical - that is, how to technically match voices - and ethical - that is, how to negotiate historically entrenched power discrepancies. Practice-based research has recently developed as a field in popular music studies. This burgeoning area has much to offer in terms of new knowledge, based on embodied insights, lived experience, and an arts practice. Through a practitioner-centred account of three projects involving traditional Persian and Vietnamese musicians, and western folk/rock musicians, this Element suggests pragmatic strategies and conceptual frameworks for making pop music with people of different cultural backgrounds.
Cross-Cultural Collaboration in Popular Music features in the following genres: Popular music, Music composition, Composers and songwriters, Musical scores, lyrics and libretti
Cross-Cultural Collaboration in Popular Music is available in Paperback, Hardback
Cross-Cultural Collaboration in Popular Music was written by Toby Martin, Sayyid Muhammad Riza Biladi, Dang Lan and published by Cambridge University Press
Cross-Cultural Collaboration in Popular Music has 75 pages
Yes it is part of Elements in Twenty-First Century Music Practice series
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