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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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Cross-Cultural Musical Diversity and Implications for its Use in Studying Human Migration

Rzeszutek, Tom I. 10 1900 (has links)
<p>Music is greatly underappreciated in the scope of cross-cultural analysis. This is due in part to methodological problems plaguing recent comparative approaches, and modern ethnomusicology’s stance against cross-cultural analysis. Language, on the other hand, has a long history of cross-cultural study and recent advances in quantitative techniques, borrowed mostly from biology, have put language at the forefront of studying population prehistory from a cultural perspective. Chapter 2 of this thesis presents a novel quantitative approach to studying cross-cultural musical diversity based on the AMOVA methodology borrowed from population genetics. This method allows researchers to quantify the amount of variability found between as well as within populations, and gives us a measure of population-level divergence that accounts for intra-population variability. Our major finding is that the vast majority of musical variability (~98%) is found within populations rather than between. This approach solves many of the quantitative issues with the original Cantometrics approach, and is widely applicable to the analysis of many domains of culture. Aside from methodological issues a major open question is whether music has the requisite time-depth to answer questions about recent human pre-history. Chapter 3 focuses on addressing this question generally, and more specifically investigating which musical features trace population history most effectively. Using a corpus of songs from 9 Taiwanese aboriginal tribes and quantitative methods from chapter 2, we show that features related to song structure are correlated with mitochondrial DNA data from the same populations, while features of singing style are not. Both the quantitative methods and provisional support for music’s time depth presented here will hopefully usher in a new era of comparative musicology and provide scholars of pre-history with an additional tool to answer unresolved questions.</p> / Master of Science (MSc)
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Diversidade musical e as atividades da secretaria de cultura e turismo da Bahia na área de música: 1995 a 2006

Santos, Carolina Menezes de Almeida January 2009 (has links)
168 p. / Submitted by Santiago Fabio (fabio.ssantiago@hotmail.com) on 2013-01-07T18:10:53Z No. of bitstreams: 1 33.pdf: 1472320 bytes, checksum: 1aaaec9f5c68a5eac45af11ceb24cf10 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2013-01-07T18:10:53Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 33.pdf: 1472320 bytes, checksum: 1aaaec9f5c68a5eac45af11ceb24cf10 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009 / O presente estudo teve como objetivo investigar até que ponto a política cultural para música praticada pela Secretaria de Cultura e Turismo da Bahia - SCT, entre os anos de 1995 e 2006, esteve efetivamente voltada para a proteção e promoção da diversidade musical, ou, se ao contrário, de maneira intencional ou não, acabou contribuindo para estimular o avanço da Axé Music sobre os espaços reservados a música no mercado de entretenimento baiano. Para tanto foram levantados e analisados projetos, ações e programas promovidos pela SCT direcionados a área musical. Através da análise de relatórios de atividades do governo e dos planos plurianuais desse período foi possível verificar que as atividades da SCT na área de música tentaram de alguma forma proteger e promover a diversidade musical na Bahia, já que se pôde perceber que uma variedade de gêneros usufruiu desse apoio. Pôde-se comprovar também que algumas dessas atividades tinham a preocupação em promover artistas emergentes que, em sua maioria, não pertenciam aos gêneros musicais do mainstream. Porém, nem sempre esta preocupação vinha acompanhada de diretrizes que levassem em consideração pontos importantes à questão da proteção e promoção da diversidade musical. Muitos foram abordados de maneira superficial ou nem sequer foram tocados, não recebendo a devida atenção dos responsáveis pela elaboração dessas atividades. / Salvador

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