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Friday, July 29, 2022

A Summery

Musik ist die Fähigkeit des Menschen, Schallwellen mit Bedeutung aufzuladen, sie als Bedeutungsträger zu gestalten, zu nutzen und ihnen Identitätskonkretheit und kulturelle Verbindlichkeit zuzuschreiben. Aufgabe der Musikforschung ist es, sonische Bedeutungsträger in ihrem kulturellen Kontext zu beobachten, zu beschreiben und gegebenenfalls didaktische Vermittlungsentwürfe auf der Basis einfühlender Erfahrungsorientierung anzubieten.

Wenn wir als außenstehende Beobachter*innen Diskurse über Begrifflichkeiten verfolgen, stellen wir zusammenfassend fest, dass das Ringen um eine Erklärung hinsichtlich eines Begriffs erfolglos bleibt. Es zeigt im wesentlichen verschiedene Bedeutungszuweisungen von Menschen, Geisteswissenschaftlern mit ganz unterschiedlichen Perspektiven auf bestimmte Termini. Das überrascht nicht, denn die verinselten Gehirne von menschlichen Beobachtern können ja nichts anderes wahrnehmen und beschreiben als das, was sie aufgrund ihrer Sozialisation und Kulturalisierung verinnerlicht haben und sei es mit noch so ausgeprägter, im Wissenschaftsbetrieb erworbener Fähigkeit zu mentaler Distanzierung. Letztlich geht es dann doch wieder um Machtgefüge, einen mehr oder minder sportlich fairen Wettkampf darum, wessen Bedeutungszuschreibung das Zeug hat, sich durchzusetzen. Unternimmt man das mentale Experiment, Machtdominanz wegzudenken, lässt sich eigentlich nur folgern, dass eine Annäherung an einen Begriff aus der Summe der diskursiv motivierten Einzelperspektiven bestehen könnte, die sich mehr oder minder unscharf und in unendlicher Annäherung auf ihn zubewegen.



Music is the human ability to charge sound waves with meaning, to shape them as carriers of meaning, to use them, and to ascribe to them concreteness of identity and cultural commitment. It is the task of music research to observe sonic carriers of meaning in their cultural context, to describe them and, if necessary, to offer didactic mediation designs on the basis of empathetic experience orientation.

When we, as outside observers, follow discourses on terminology, we notice in summary that the struggle for an explanation regarding a term remains unsuccessful. It essentially shows different assignments of meaning by people, humanities scholars with very different perspectives on certain terms. This is not surprising, because the insular brains of human observers cannot perceive and describe anything other than what they have internalized due to their socialization and culturalization, and be it with even the most pronounced ability for mental distancing acquired in the academic field. Ultimately, it is again a matter of power structures, a more or less sportingly fair competition about whose attribution of meaning has what it takes to prevail. If one undertakes the mental experiment of thinking away power dominance, one can actually only conclude that an approach to a concept could consist of the sum of discursively motivated individual perspectives that move toward it in a more or less blurred and infinite approximation.

Friday, January 14, 2022

ulme-mini-verlag

 

The web-presentation of the publishing company ulme-mini-verlag has been updated with security features, a translation option and the removal of flash content.

Saturday, March 13, 2021

Actualised: Uganda Page by Prof. Dr. James Isabirye

http://www.ethnomusicscape.de/uganda/uganda.htm

On this page there were some flash-video-files and they have been replaced by the mp4-format.

Now all can be seen on the page itself.



 

Finally restored: Odissi-Temple Dance from East India

During the first 10 years of the 21st century it was an eLearning option to create webpages with PowerPoint. Colleagues might remember that period. It was convenient to create a PowerPoint-presentation and then to convert it to a webpage in one instance. Unfortunately I used that method with some of the modules for EthnoMusicScape and for my seminars with students at the JLU Gießen. Because after a while with the changes in Windows and the formats of the web-content it was outdated and not useable anymore. Step by step I am restoring those modules now and one of them is this nice introduction to the Odissi-temple dance, which is practiced in the region around Calcutta and Odhisha. My colleague Tamara Kurz has collected information, has studied this dance and together we created this educational environment:


 

Saturday, August 8, 2020

eLearning and Music-Education

The following semester-pages have been restored and adapted to Win10 now:
They include educational eLearning-modules created by students of music-education at the University of Giessen (JLU) and can be used for the daily work in schools in the learning-at-stations concept (circular training). An introduction to this didactic concept you can find here: http://www.ulme-mini-verlag.de/erfazirk.pdf (German) and the advices for the circular training on elementary music teaching are given here: http://www.ulme-mini-verlag.de/elementarlehre.htm . All modules refer to the classical Western music background.



Friday, July 31, 2020

KunQu - Southern Opera In China

The page about the Chinese South Opera KunQu is online and all links are working:
https://www.ethnomusicscape.de/kunju.htm .
The material can be didacticized as a modular learning-arrangement with around 10 stations.
Tests at the end are available on the page: