Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin - Musikwissenschaft

BEAM

 

Berliner Musikethnologie und Anthropologie der Musik Forschungsgruppe
Berlin Ethnomusicology and the Anthropology of Music Research Group


Die Forschungsgruppe ist öffentlich und richtet sich an alle Musikethnolog_innen und Musikwissenschaftler_innen mit Interesse an ethnographischer Forschung. Sie wird während der Vorlesungszeit monatlich sowohl an der HU wie auch an jeweils unterschiedlichen wissenschaftlichen Institutionen in Berlin stattfinden. Ziel soll sein, den Austausch zwischen den Wissenschaftler_innen zu fördern, gemeinsam neue Fragestellungen und aktuelle Literatur zu diskutieren und eigene Forschungsprojekte vorzustellen.

Für genauere Auskünfte bezüglich der Termine und Veranstaltungsorte, bitte Kontakt mit den Organisator_innen aufnehmen.

This research group is open to all ethnomusicologists and music researchers with an interest in ethnography. It will take place at different academic institutions in Berlin. The aim is to create a forum where music scholars can engage in academic exchange, discuss current literature and debates in ethnomusicology, and present recent research.

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact the organisers:
 
Stefanie Alisch (stefanie.alisch@yahoo.de)
Sydney Hutchinson (salsasydney@gmail.com)

For further information, please visit berlinethnomusicology.wordpress.com.
You can also like the Facebook page or join the Facebook group.
 

 

Aktuelles

 

BEAM 51. Meeting 30.01.2020,  AKU5 R 501

 

Pedro Filho Amorim (UFRB, Brasilien) "Other Parties: Rhythmanalysis of musical venues at the fringes of the Carnival industry."


Salvador, the historical first capital of Brazil, is since 2015 one of the "Cities of Music", in the UNESCO Creative Cities Network. Although "Carnival has been responsible for promoting the local music industry on an international scale."(UNESCO, 2015) Salvador has a much diverser musical scene, too often overshadowed by the massive tourism industry, of which Carnival is the main attraction. Spaces publicly recognized as important musical venues, with regular audience in long term activities (sometimes over a decade), are systematically neglected by mass media and authorities. Combining Lefebvre's (1991) rhythmanalysis  and the concept of third space (BHABHA:2004, SOJA:1996) this work aims to address the temporalities (discontinuities, intensities, reverberations) of such spaces in the fashion of a musical analysis, crossing triadic structures such as: popular/canonic/innovative music; ontology/epistemology/historicity (SOJA:1996); energy/space/time/; melody/harmony/rhythm (LEFEBVRE:1991). The analysis is focused on pair of examples, comprising three categories:  (1) public institutions promoting "serious" music: regular classical music concerts at Museum of Sacred Art and a weekly jazz session in Museum of Modern Art; (2) spaces occupied by popular musical movements: 'Reggae Square', at historical center, and 'Rock Stage', during Carnival, at Piatã beach; (3) spaces occupied by artists' initiative: the occupation of Lina Bo Bardi's iconic building Coaty, by experimental artists, and weekly free concerts by one of 'axé-music' pioneers singer/songwriter Gerônimo, at the stairways of Paço Church (famous location of "O pagador de promessas" movie, Palme D'Or in Cannes in 1962) .

Bio:

Pedro Filho Amorim, PhD is a composer, guitarist, intermedia artist, researcher and educator from Salvador da Bahia, Brazil. Heo holds an MA in music composition which he completed with the thesis ‘’Poética da Experiência’’ (Poetics of Experience, a philosophical investigation on indeterminacy in music). In 2014 he completed a PhD in musical composition with the thesis „Compor no Mundo“ (Composing in the World), a model of composing on phenomenological bases.

Pedro works in collaboration with various artists in projects involving music, expanded arts and urban interventions. He acts currently as professor at the Center for Cultures, Languages and Applied Technologies at the Federal University of Recôncavo Baiano (CECULT - UFRB), where he coordinates a research project on Human and Worldly Rhythms (Ritmos Humanos e Mundanos). He further instigated and manages the Radio Rede extension project and participates in the research group MAS (Anarchical and Sensorial Methodologies) here. Recent works include: participation in the book Teoria e Prática do Compor IV (Theory and Practice of Composing IV, Edi Paulo Costa Lima); participation in the project of graphic notation and serigraphy Tiragem Experimento Zero (book and disc); Entomúsica, a research on the possibility of making music with/for insects (presented in CIPS: International Conference Powers of Sound, 05/2019). He is developing research on rhythms and places represented by maps, scores and calendars.

 

 

Events 2020

30.01.2020: Filho Amorim(UFRB, Brasil), "Rhythmanalysis & Salvador da Bahia" . Humboldt University, department of Musicology, Am Kupfergraben 5, room 501, 6 PM


 

Events 2019

05.12.2019

50th BEAM meeting with Ananya Kabir: Transoceanic creolisation and the music and dance of Goa

Humboldt University, Department of Musicology, Am Kupfergraben 5, room 501, 6 PM

18.11.2019

BEAM autumn write-in

Ethnological Museum Dahlem,

10 AM-3PM

17.11.2019

49th BEAM meeting: Sweet Tassa (film screening/q&a) with Christopher L.Ballengee

Humboldt University, Department of Musicology, Am Kupfergraben 5, room 501, 3 PM

18.09.2019

BEAM summer write-in

Ethnological Museum Dahlem,

10AM-3PM

13.06.2019

48th BEAM meeting with Martin Greve and Yaprak Melike Uyar

Humboldt University, Department of Musicology, Am Kupfergraben 5, room 501, 6PM

09.05.2019

47th BEAM meeting with Ronald Radano

Humboldt University, Department of Musicology, Am Kupfergraben 5, 6PM

24.01.2019

46th BEAM meeting with Saida Daukeyeva

Humboldt University, Department of Musicology, Am Kupfergraben 5, 6PM


 

Events 2018

08.11.2018

45th BEAM meeting with Dr. Katrin Lengwinat

Humboldt University, Department of Musicology, Am Kupfergraben 5, room 401, 6.15 PM

21.06.2018

44th BEAM meeting with Jennifer Breyley and Mauricio Schwab Veloso

Humboldt University, Department of Musicology, Am Kupfergraben 5, room 401, 6.15 PM

29.05.2018

43rd BEAM meeting: BEAM meets GMM

Hochschule Macromedia, Mehringdamm 33/M33, 2nd staircase, room 209, 6PM

17.04.2018

42nd BEAM meeting:[sound] listening to the world (guided tour)

Humboldt Box, Schlossplatz 5, 10178 Berlin, 6 PM

08.02.2018

41st BEAM meeting: workshop on `Dilemmas in culture, property, and heritage‘ (by Michelle Bigenho and Henry Stobart)

Humboldt University, Department of Musicology, Am Kupfergraben 5, room 501, 6.15 PM

26.27.01.2018

BEAM trip to Halle: „Instrumentale Transformation-Musik, Migration und Mobilität“

Halle


 

Events 2017

07.12.2017

40th BEAM meeting with Frances Falling, ‘Passing down a musical culture: the German Kinderchor‘

Humboldt University, Department of Musicology, Am Kupfergraben 5, room 401, 6.15 PM

23.11.2017

39th BEAM meeting with Friedlind Riedel, ‘Listening at the treshold of the human. A musical anthropology from Myanmar‘

Humboldt University, Department of Musicology, Am Kupfergraben 5, room 401, 6 PM

13.07.2017

38rd BEAM meeting with Stefanie Alisch, ‘Angolan Kuduro: carga, aesthetic duells, and pleasure politics performed through music and dance‘ (thesis viva, dry run)

Humboldt University, Department of Musicology, Am Kupfergraben 5, room 401, 6 PM

22.06.2017

37th BEAM meeting: reading group on Sara Ahmed’s ‘Strange encounters‘

Humboldt University, Department of Musicology, Am Kupfergraben 5, room 401, 6.15 PM

27.04.2017

Bruno Nettl at the international symposium ‘Music’s pluralistic potential‘

Humboldt University, Department of Musicology, Am Kupfergraben 5, room 501, 7.15 PM

30.03.2017

36th BEAM meeting with Lesley n Braun

Humboldt University, Department of Musicology, Am Kupfergraben 5, room 501, 6 PM

19.01.2017

35th BEAM meeting with Sean Prieske