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Guillaume Veillet
Guillaume Veillet is a French cultural journalist and researcher in ethnomusicology born on to Ambilly (Haute-Savoie). Biography He studied at the Institute of Political Studies of Grenoble, where he taught from 2001 to 2005. In parallel, he became a journalist (radio, daily press and magazine) specializing in music and more broadly the live performance (theater, contemporary dance, street arts). He is passionate about traditional music. From 2006 to 2009, he is editor of the magazine Trad Magazine. In autumn 2009, he released on the label Frémeaux & Associés an anthology of traditional music of France in 10 CDs (whose visual is the work of the American draftsman Robert Crumb). More than 50 associations and archives centers in the region, as well as the Institut national de l'audiovisuel, INA, the National Library of France, the Museum of Civilizations of Europe and the Mediterranean (MuCEM), the Laval University of Quebec and the Swiss National Sound Archives are partners ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ethnomusicology
Ethnomusicology is the study of music from the cultural and social aspects of the people who make it. It encompasses distinct theoretical and methodical approaches that emphasize cultural, social, material, cognitive, biological, and other dimensions or contexts of musical behavior, in addition to the sound component. Within musical ethnography it is the first-hand personal study of musicking as known as the act of taking part in a musical performance. Folklorists, who began preserving and studying folklore music in Europe and the US in the 19th century, are considered the precursors of the field prior to the Second World War. The term ''ethnomusicology'' is said to have been coined by Jaap Kunst from the Greek words ἔθνος (''ethnos'', "nation") and μουσική (''mousike'', "music"), It is often defined as the anthropology or ethnography of music, or as musical anthropology.Seeger, Anthony. 1983. ''Why Suyá Sing''. London: Oxford University Press. pp. xiii-xvii. Du ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
