27 March 2009
Christopher Small has spent much of his scholarly career arguing that a classical European symphony concert is a musical ceremony. He does not argue that a symphony is ceremonial rather than musical. Instead, he says a concert has social dimensions that we do not often recognize and that the most appropriate label for those dimensions [...]
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24 March 2009
With the advent of multimedia publishing, scholars are no longer limited to written or visual communication. Rather than write about, for example, ritualization in the animal world, translating sounds into text, we can integrate sounds into our presentations, interpretations, theories, criticisms, simply by embedding an audio file in a small video player, like this: Sounds [...]
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