011: Globalisation

Chieftains - Full of Joy - Chieftains in China

example for gloablisation

use of chinese folklore and instruments

Context:

• invitation to go to china

• played with chinese folk orchestra

• exploring links with other music cultures

Release

Afro celt sound system

style: mix of irish, electronic, west-african and other musical styles

players: both irish and african

instruments: also from both traditions

—> eg. fiddle, pipes, bodhrán, whistle, kora (lute), talking drum, vocals from sean nós singer

The Tempest

Ensembles Ériu

• irish music + jazz and contemporary/classical

• reel

• minimalist texture (ongoing pulse)

• instruments: clarinett, marimba, double bass, guitar, drums, fiddle, concertina

• linked to commercialization of music

• linked to neocapitalism and commodification

• non-western and/or rock music distributed by the west, esp. commercial, hybrid, forms

• supposedly traditional music forms

• music of western artists who have shown interest i non-western pop

• associated with cultural appropriation

• seen as world music, because of celtic roots

• popularity of irish traditional music grew world-wide due to this

• reaching a wider global audience through mixing of styles

• = commercial term that summarizes scottish, irish and other musical forms

• an internationally recogized category

• celtic connections: annual festival for celtic music

• change of performance and performance contexts

• new technologies and social media brought new opportunites for musical consumption, collaboration, music making etc.

• change and innovation within the tradition

• fear about forgetting the musical past and centre of the tradition (ireland)

• fear of dilution and homogenization of the tradition

  —> stereotyp, commercial vision of ireland

= purposeful mixing of sources, deliberately done to attempt to creat something new

• ethnomusicology

• exploring the process of inter-cultural musicking

• terms like hybrid are not actually used by musicians but imposed from outside (commercialisation, globalisation)

• perpetuation and intensification of historically unequal power relations

• entranchment of cultural categories employed by music industry

• necessity of genre definition —> less important for contemporary musicians