This paper discusses the results of a multi-local listening test conducted with listeners in Europe and the Arab world. We asked musicians, musicologists, music lovers, and students to listen to the pieces Wanabni and Ghareeba, written and played by the Palestinian singer and oud player Kamilya Jubran and the Swiss trumpet player and electro-acoustic musician Werner Hasler. Similar to Tagg (2003), the listeners were requested to discuss these pieces of music on different levels: the performance itself (constructional competence), the musical references (receptional competence), and the musical and non-musical contextualisations and positionings (metatextual and metacontextual discourse). The paper highlights the multiple meanings that one piece of music can generate, focussing on different listeners with different interlocal/intercultural/interprofessional experiences and engagements. Plus it aims to present one possible way of analysing multi-, trans- or hyperlocal music in today’s increasingly digitised and globalised music world.
Project Team
Dr. Thomas Burkhalter (norient)
Prof. Dr. Christoph Jacke (University of Paderborn)
Sandra Passaro (Stars & Heroes, Berlin)
Presentations
2-4.9 2010. Biennial Conference of IASPM-UK/Ireland, in Cardiff.
19.-21. 11 2010. Arbeitstagung des ASPM, Popakademie Baden-Württemberg, Mannheim, „Black Box Pop – Pop-Analyse zwischen Musik- und Kulturwissenschaft“.
[...] Burkhalter, Christoph Jacke und Sandra Passaro arbeiten zur Zeit an einem wissenschaftlichen Artikel zum Titelstück «Wanabni». Der wissenschaftliche Text (oder eine journalistische Auswertung) [...]