Global Forms of Popular Music Production

Quotation
by Gavin Carfoot

«Global forms of popular music production and consumption – such as those typical of World Music – tend to replicate colonial thinking by positioning non-Western musics as Others to be discovered, and by understanding such discovery as an expression of agency on the part of the music consumer.»

This quote is taken from the article «Musical Discovery, Colonialism, and the Possibilities of Intercultural Communication» published 2016 in «Popular Communication». Last accessed on November 26, 2020.

Biography

Gavin Carfoot is a Senior Lecturer in Music at the Queensland University of Technology. Prior to this he was a Lecturer in Popular Music at the Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University. He has worked extensively in popular music curriculum and assessment at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels. His collaborative work in popular music education and community service learning won a Griffith Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2012. Follow him on Instagram.

Published on June 25, 2016

Last updated on June 27, 2022

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Colonialism
Music Production
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