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Pygmy Pop Music

By Alexandro Venegas & Cinthia Prado

Summary

Pygmies & Pygmy music

Steven Feld

Pygmy music is:

  • African style music from Africa (especially Congo)
  • Incorporation of music and culture.
  • Emotional impact & movement.
  • They preserve their culture and changes.
  • "Song is used to communicate with the forest".- Colin Turnbull
  • Known for their rich, complex music.
  • Starting at a young age.
  • Copyright conventions

Mimesis, copyright & inspiration

Pygmy music

"This is a different thing, you see, brothers, we're all making African music, that's what I'm talking about" .- Hancock 1985

*He was a Professor of:

  • Anthropology and Music @ UNM
  • World Music @ the Institute of Music, University of Oslo, Norway

*Founder of New Mexico Jazz Workshop

*Bosavi rainforest region in Papua New Guinea

*Greek Macedonia

Men play struck beau.

Women & children sing behind them.

  • AfricanAmerican citation practices
  • Stylizations, references to Afro-Islamic humanism and African American nationalism.

Videos and Sounds

In a global space of circulating commodities

- Pygmy Music

http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/recordings-of-pygmy-music-from-the-1946-ogooue-congo-mission/

- DEEP FOREST – Hunting

- Madonna – Sanctuary

- Head Hunters | Herbie Hancock | 1973 | Full Album

- Mbuti Peoples Music, Indigenous Africa, Hindewhu

Arguments

Subtlety spanning oppositional ideology and lyrical romanticism

“Pygmy-inspired mimetic practices in the jazz arena might allow us to scrutinize more closely how appropriations are neither musically nor politically singular” (Page 7).

- “Recordings were made by scholars and were realized specifically as anthropological and ethnomusicological documents, they have reached an unusually large and diverse audience” (page 9).

  • Small portion of a much larger pattern
  • The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians
  • No moral high ground
  • Global schizophonic condition
  • cultural invention in its own right.
  • Egyptians, of African villagers, of colonials and missionaries, of anthropologists and ethnomusicologists.

- “Do you know what I hate about computers? The problem with computers is that there is not enough Africa in them” (Kelly 1995, Page 19).

No rule specified at the time of writing.

Future Issues

  • Gilbert Rouget. Congo in 1946
  • Different tools
  • Madonna in "Sanctuary".

musical influences worldwide

Questions

  • Jazz musicians expressions in the 60s & 70s
  • Improvisation and composition
  • "theft"
  • Revitalizing one's own tradition.

- Have you ever heard this Pygmy music in other artist?

-Do you think if Pygmy music was more popular, today could we have a Pygmy artist?

- Do you think if Pygmy society could have fancy instruments, music could be better than personal instrument?

  • Innocence for
  • tribal, ethnic, folk, or traditional music
  • "world beat."
  • Noise & silence
  • Notions of reflection and revelation

Classical music is music without Africa

Do you know what I hate about computers? The problem with computers is that there is not enough Africa in them

- In what year was the first discovery by Pygmy society?

- What is the mean kind of music by this community: monophony, polyphony, homophony or monody?

- In which country primordially is this society?

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