Sensing traditional music through Sweden's Zorn Badge : precarious musical value and ritual orientation / Karin Eriksson.

Author
Eriksson, Karin, 1974- [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
  • Uppsala : Uppsala Universitet, [2017]
  • ©2017
Description
226 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.

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    Series
    • Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. Studia musicologica Upsaliensia ; nova series, 28. [More in this series]
    • Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. Studia musicologica Upsaliensia, 0081-6744 ; nova series, 28 [More in this series]
    Notes
    • University publication.
    • Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--Uppsala University, 2017.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (pages 210-226).
    Language note
    With Swedish summary.
    Contents
    • Acknowledgements
    • Introduction
    • Aims and questions
    • Research perspectives and existing literature
    • Spelman and folk musician
    • To audition or compete?
    • Spelmansrorelsen and the collection Svenska Låtar
    • Theoretical approaches and methodologies
    • Sensory ethnography and interventions
    • Multi-sited fieldwork and interactive encounters : sharing experiences, sharing lives
    • Thesis outline
    • Playing for silver : player perspectives on the zorn auditions
    • Threshold experiences
    • To be oriented : lines and directions
    • On site : spaces of entrance
    • At the zorn auditions
    • Beginnings : becoming part of the zorn audition map
    • 'A role to fulfil:' ritual belonging and connecting with the past
    • The players' motivations and preparations
    • Why audition for the zorn badge?
    • 'Everything and nothing' : multivalent attitudes towards the zorn badge
    • Problems of competing in music : liminality and layers of resistance
    • Vocal music at play : ordering struggles over trall
    • Effects of power : trademark and means of visibility
    • Initiation and incorporation into the ritual world : narrative structure and emotional encoding
    • Time to audition : to find your way
    • 'What are you supposed to do, really?' : disorientation, mystery and audible silence
    • 'The stage is yours' : getting back in line
    • On or off the list?
    • Step by step : 'once you've started ... '
    • The promise of return : transforming the voluntary into the desirable
    • Impossible decisions : jury perspectives on the zorn auditions
    • Embodied skills and ways of knowing
    • On the other side of the table
    • To feel the good music : quality in all its simplicity
    • Audible aesthetics of tradition : how to respond to a new sound
    • Negotiating the boundaries of tradition
    • Thinking through musical instruments
    • Emplacements of the cherished nyckelharpa
    • With or without bellows? encounters with the swedish bagpipe
    • Imaginarles of the pre-modern : 'to grow organically together'
    • Giving into the lines : holding on to the jury's vision of 'otherness'
    • Turning to the background : hearing the politics of the accordion
    • The politics of time and coercive alignments
    • Music on the borders : the 'folk' idiom and influences of art music
    • Mannerisms and preferable performance practices
    • Resounding musical pasts : the example of gotland
    • Playing with a 'classical attack :' divergent views of tradition
    • Temporalizing music history : musical traditions embodied through space and place
    • Conclusion : precarious musical values and performing the rite to belong
    • Swedish summary : svensk sammanfattning
    • References
    • Fieldwork material
    • Svenskt visarkiv
    • Email correspondence
    • Digital resources
    • List of figures
    • Bibliography.
    Other title(s)
    Precarious musical value and ritual orientation
    ISBN
    • 9789155498962 ((pbk.))
    • 9155498965 ((pbk.))
    OCLC
    1007565661
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