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Papers by Anthony Seeger

Research paper thumbnail of Musical Cultures of Latin America: Global Effects, Past and Present (review)

Latin American Music Review, 2004

Research paper thumbnail of Early Field Recordings: A Catalogue of Cylinder Collections at the Indiana University Archives of Traditional Music

Ethno-musicology, 1988

Acknowledgments How to Use This Catalogue Ethnographic Cylinder Recordings, An Introduction Catal... more Acknowledgments How to Use This Catalogue Ethnographic Cylinder Recordings, An Introduction Catalogue of Cylinder Collections Index of Names Index of Culture Groups Index of Subjects Index of Geographical Names Other Catalogues Published by the Archives of Traditional Music

Research paper thumbnail of Sociedades dialéticas: As sociedades Jê e os seus antropólogos

Anuário Antropológico, 1981

Research paper thumbnail of Remembered rhythms : essays on diaspora and music of India

Preface - Shubha ChaudhuriIntroduction - Anthony Seeger1. Issues and Themes in the Study of South... more Preface - Shubha ChaudhuriIntroduction - Anthony Seeger1. Issues and Themes in the Study of South Asian Diaspora, Frank J. Korom2. The African Diaspora in Asia Project (TADIA), Jean-Pierre Angenot 3. 'Suku Suku What Shall I do?' Hindi Cinema and the Politics of Music in Trinidad, Tejaswini Niranjana4. Beyond Borders: Memory and Creativity in the Diaspora, Tina K. Ramnarine5. Ethnicity, Identity and Acculturation in Diasporic Communities, Various discussants 6. Sidi Music in Western India: Remembering an African Heritage, Amy Catlin-Jairazbhoy7. Musical memories, musical discoveries, musical meetings: Historic 78 rpm song recordings as a mirror of the Jewish diaspora in Bombay c1925-1947, Sara Manasseh8. The Remembered Rhythms of Trinidad: Bhojpuri Chutney 2005 and its Antecedents, Helen Myers9. Diaspora and Music: Retention and Renovation, Various discussantsIndex

Research paper thumbnail of The construction of the person in indigenous Brazilian societies

HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory, 2019

The following is a translation from the Portuguese of "A construção da pessoa nas sociedades indí... more The following is a translation from the Portuguese of "A construção da pessoa nas sociedades indígenas brasileiras," originally published in 1979 in Boletim do Museu Nacional, Antropologia n.s. 32:2-19. References have been added or updated to assist readers in locating specific works by authors discussed in the article.

Research paper thumbnail of The Music of Brazil

Ethnomusicology, 1985

Brazilian music gets its distinct sound from three different cultures: the Indigenous peoples, th... more Brazilian music gets its distinct sound from three different cultures: the Indigenous peoples, the Portuguese settlers, and the African slaves. This Brazilian sound can be heard in the traditional music and even in some contemporary songs. A. A. This relatively recent Gilberto Gil performance truly illustrates this point. Look for the African, Indigenous, and Portuguese influences. If you're not sure what to look for, don't worry! We'll get into that later this week. ;-)

Research paper thumbnail of Sudamérica y sus mundos audibles. Cosmologías y prácticas sonoras de los pueblos indígenas

Estudios Indiana, 2015

article_hom_0439-4216_ 1993_num_33_126_369656.pdf?mode=light> (30.07.2015). Bell, Catherine 1992 ... more article_hom_0439-4216_ 1993_num_33_126_369656.pdf?mode=light> (30.07.2015). Bell, Catherine 1992 Ritual theory, ritual practice. New York: Oxford University Press. Brabec de Mori, Bernd 2013a La transformación de la medicina shipibo-konibo. Conceptos etno-médicos en la representación de un pueblo indígena. En: Sigl, Eveline, Yvonne Schaffler & Ricardo Ávila (eds.

Research paper thumbnail of Natural Species, Sounds, and Humans in Lowland South America: The Kĩsêdjê/Suyá, Their World, and the Nature of Their Musical Experience

Research paper thumbnail of Social Structure, Musicians, and Behavior

The Garland Handbook of Latin American Music, 2021

Research paper thumbnail of Into the Interior

Research paper thumbnail of questions d'éthique || L'éthique et le droit d'auteur en musique

Research paper thumbnail of 1. Suya Cosmology

The Suya Indians of Mato Grosso

Research paper thumbnail of New technology requires new collaborations: Changing ourselves to better shape the future

Musicology Australia, 2004

Abstract Extract During the past few years I have sometimes glanced away from my perusal of journ... more Abstract Extract During the past few years I have sometimes glanced away from my perusal of journal articles or dissertations thrashing through ideas that have been around for decades and briefly envied fields like genetics, where technology and new research have opened up a host of new and interesting theoretical challenges and put some old issues completely to rest. That research has also had some satisfying practical results, among them the release of prisoners from death rows in jails around the United States of America as DNA evidence proves their innocence. Why, I have wondered, isn't my field so fortunately theoretically refocused and practically applicable?

Research paper thumbnail of Archives for the Future: Global Perspectives on Audiovisual Archives in the 21st Century (review)

Notes, 2005

ARCHIVES, COPYRIGHT, CONFERENCES Archives for the Future: Global Perspectives on Audiovisual Arch... more ARCHIVES, COPYRIGHT, CONFERENCES Archives for the Future: Global Perspectives on Audiovisual Archives in the 21st Century. Edited by Anthony Seeger and Shubha Chaudhuri. Gurgaon, Haryana, India: Archives and Research Centre for Ethnomusicology, American Institute of Indian Studies; Calcutta: Seagull Books, 2004. [xxviii, 300 p. ISBN 81-7046-223-1. $30.] Illustrations, bibliography. Archives for the Future is an eye-opening book. In December 1999 a group of audiovisual archivists met in Manesar, India at a conference sponsored by the Ford Foundation. The intent was to bring together archivists from non-Western "industrializing" countries to discuss issues and possible solutions in audiovisual archives. Anthony Seeger and Shubha Chaudhuri, the conference's two organizers, edited the volume. Seeger, then head of Smithsonian Folkways, was the only representative from an American institution. The other conference organizer, Shubha Chaudhuri, is archivist at the Archives and Research Centre for Ethnomusicology (ARCE) of the American Institute of Indian Studies. The conference departed from the standard academic format in favor of group discussion and problem solving. All the participants spoke English, and each was required to provide a brief position paper. Rather than presenting their papers formally, however, the participants made them available to each other ahead of time, and then engaged in discussions that eventually resulted in formal documents. The book is made up of two introductory sections: one on preservation and technology, focusing on a presentation by Dietrich Schuller, who represented the International Association of Audio and Audiovisual Archives (IASA), and a section on "Rights, Intellectual Property, and Archives Today." Both include questions and discussion. The remainder of the book consists of the original position papers of the participants, transcriptions of role-playing sessions in which they represented the attitudes of archivists, collectors, and administrators, and the final working documents. A bibliography current through 2001 and a list of Web sites for pertinent organizations conclude the volume. On the whole it presents an enlightening view of audiovisual archives in other parts of the world. Americans tend to assume that we are automatically at the forefront of innovation and technology, but publications like this one reveal the fallacies in such assumptions. In his presentation on technology and preservation, Dietrich Schuller points out that in the past decade sound archives have undergone a paradigm change from focusing on preservation of the original recording to aiming for preservation of content. He urges archives to go digital at a time when American best practice was still wedded to reel-to-reel analog tape. Schuller's suggested solution, a tape-based digital mass storage system that resembles a jukebox, has been superseded by standalone servers with huge disk capacity, which are now available at relatively low cost. His recommendations to archivists to continue to raise awareness about audiovisual archives and their preservation goals, to train preservation specialists, to cooperate to preserve the audiovisual record, and to work for funding on all levels, cannot be timelier. Schuller's other point is that neither original recordings nor original hardware should be discarded-a concept that involves funding, training, and cooperation as well. The discussion following his presentation, as transcribed, follows up on technical points and covers everything from equipment for fieldwork to recommended storage conditions. This section of the book, now somewhat out-of-date, points out both the speed with which technology changes and the willingness of archivists in areas that might be considered marginalized to embrace it as they can. In the section on rights and ethics one detects the guidance of Anthony Seeger, who has been a tireless advocate for ethical collecting and dissemination of indigenous music. …

Research paper thumbnail of Long-Term Field Research in Ethnomusicology in the 21ST-CENTURY

Este artigo faz uma revisão da história da pesquisa de campo de longa duração na Etnomusicologia ... more Este artigo faz uma revisão da história da pesquisa de campo de longa duração na Etnomusicologia (e em alguma medida na Antropologia social) e descreve algumas mudanças resultantes das transformações tecnológicas e éticas no século 21. Com base na experiência do autor entre os índios Suyá/Kïsêdjê desde 1971, discute algumas das vantagens e desvantagens dessa modalidade de pesquisa de campo. Entre as vantagens estão o enriquecimento das perspectivas dos pesquisadores como resultado de um maior aprofundamento em campo, enriquecimento oriundo das mudanças tanto na comunidade quanto do pesquisador ao longo do tempo, possibilidades de colaboração e ajuda quanto aos anseios da comunidade, satisfação e realização pessoal, e, especialmente, o aumento do respeito pelas iniciativas dos sujeitos da pesquisa. Entre as desvantagens incluemse uma possível limitação no desenvolvimento intelectual, uma redução na intensidade da pesquisa, confi ança demais ou (alternativamente) muito estresse, bem c...

Research paper thumbnail of I Found It, How Can I Use It?" - Dealing With The Ethical And Legal Constraints Of Information Access

Research paper thumbnail of Music and Cultural Heritage Making in Latin America: An Afterword

espanolA la hora de considerar el papel de um postfacio para una lograda coleccion de articulos e... more espanolA la hora de considerar el papel de um postfacio para una lograda coleccion de articulos etnograficamente orientados y bien argumentados, me parece que podria hacer dos cosas para contextualizarlos. Em primer lugar, situar estos trabajos em el contexto de otras compilaciones de articulos que abordan las estrategias y efectos de algunos projectos de Patrimonio Cultural Inmaterial (PCI) fuera de las Americas. Em segundo lugar, me proponho discutir la influencia de la UNESCO em este tipo de projectos. EnglishIn pondering the role of an Afterword to such an accomplished group of closely argued ethnography-based papers, it seemed to me that I could try to do two things to contextualize their contributions. First, I could place these papers in the context of a few other collections of essays that examine the strategies and effects of Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) projects outside of the Americas. Second, I will discuss the influence of UNESCO on intangible cultural heritage (I...

Research paper thumbnail of Book Review The Musical Human: Rethinking John Blacking’s Ethnomusicology in the Twenty-First Century Reily, Suzel Ana (ed.) (2006)

Journal of The Musical Arts in Africa, 2010

Hampshire, England and Burlington, Vermont: Ashgate. ISBN: 075465138X. xiii, 220 pp. Photographs,... more Hampshire, England and Burlington, Vermont: Ashgate. ISBN: 075465138X. xiii, 220 pp. Photographs, figures, tables, musical notation. £100.00 (hardback). JOURNAL OF THE MUSICAL ARTS IN AFRICA VOLUME 7 2010, 101–103

Research paper thumbnail of How Does Ethnomusicology Matter?

Ethnomusicology Matters, 2019

Research paper thumbnail of Pesquisa De Campo De Longa Duração Na Etnomusicologia No Século 21

Research paper thumbnail of Musical Cultures of Latin America: Global Effects, Past and Present (review)

Latin American Music Review, 2004

Research paper thumbnail of Early Field Recordings: A Catalogue of Cylinder Collections at the Indiana University Archives of Traditional Music

Ethno-musicology, 1988

Acknowledgments How to Use This Catalogue Ethnographic Cylinder Recordings, An Introduction Catal... more Acknowledgments How to Use This Catalogue Ethnographic Cylinder Recordings, An Introduction Catalogue of Cylinder Collections Index of Names Index of Culture Groups Index of Subjects Index of Geographical Names Other Catalogues Published by the Archives of Traditional Music

Research paper thumbnail of Sociedades dialéticas: As sociedades Jê e os seus antropólogos

Anuário Antropológico, 1981

Research paper thumbnail of Remembered rhythms : essays on diaspora and music of India

Preface - Shubha ChaudhuriIntroduction - Anthony Seeger1. Issues and Themes in the Study of South... more Preface - Shubha ChaudhuriIntroduction - Anthony Seeger1. Issues and Themes in the Study of South Asian Diaspora, Frank J. Korom2. The African Diaspora in Asia Project (TADIA), Jean-Pierre Angenot 3. 'Suku Suku What Shall I do?' Hindi Cinema and the Politics of Music in Trinidad, Tejaswini Niranjana4. Beyond Borders: Memory and Creativity in the Diaspora, Tina K. Ramnarine5. Ethnicity, Identity and Acculturation in Diasporic Communities, Various discussants 6. Sidi Music in Western India: Remembering an African Heritage, Amy Catlin-Jairazbhoy7. Musical memories, musical discoveries, musical meetings: Historic 78 rpm song recordings as a mirror of the Jewish diaspora in Bombay c1925-1947, Sara Manasseh8. The Remembered Rhythms of Trinidad: Bhojpuri Chutney 2005 and its Antecedents, Helen Myers9. Diaspora and Music: Retention and Renovation, Various discussantsIndex

Research paper thumbnail of The construction of the person in indigenous Brazilian societies

HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory, 2019

The following is a translation from the Portuguese of "A construção da pessoa nas sociedades indí... more The following is a translation from the Portuguese of "A construção da pessoa nas sociedades indígenas brasileiras," originally published in 1979 in Boletim do Museu Nacional, Antropologia n.s. 32:2-19. References have been added or updated to assist readers in locating specific works by authors discussed in the article.

Research paper thumbnail of The Music of Brazil

Ethnomusicology, 1985

Brazilian music gets its distinct sound from three different cultures: the Indigenous peoples, th... more Brazilian music gets its distinct sound from three different cultures: the Indigenous peoples, the Portuguese settlers, and the African slaves. This Brazilian sound can be heard in the traditional music and even in some contemporary songs. A. A. This relatively recent Gilberto Gil performance truly illustrates this point. Look for the African, Indigenous, and Portuguese influences. If you're not sure what to look for, don't worry! We'll get into that later this week. ;-)

Research paper thumbnail of Sudamérica y sus mundos audibles. Cosmologías y prácticas sonoras de los pueblos indígenas

Estudios Indiana, 2015

article_hom_0439-4216_ 1993_num_33_126_369656.pdf?mode=light> (30.07.2015). Bell, Catherine 1992 ... more article_hom_0439-4216_ 1993_num_33_126_369656.pdf?mode=light> (30.07.2015). Bell, Catherine 1992 Ritual theory, ritual practice. New York: Oxford University Press. Brabec de Mori, Bernd 2013a La transformación de la medicina shipibo-konibo. Conceptos etno-médicos en la representación de un pueblo indígena. En: Sigl, Eveline, Yvonne Schaffler & Ricardo Ávila (eds.

Research paper thumbnail of Natural Species, Sounds, and Humans in Lowland South America: The Kĩsêdjê/Suyá, Their World, and the Nature of Their Musical Experience

Research paper thumbnail of Social Structure, Musicians, and Behavior

The Garland Handbook of Latin American Music, 2021

Research paper thumbnail of Into the Interior

Research paper thumbnail of questions d'éthique || L'éthique et le droit d'auteur en musique

Research paper thumbnail of 1. Suya Cosmology

The Suya Indians of Mato Grosso

Research paper thumbnail of New technology requires new collaborations: Changing ourselves to better shape the future

Musicology Australia, 2004

Abstract Extract During the past few years I have sometimes glanced away from my perusal of journ... more Abstract Extract During the past few years I have sometimes glanced away from my perusal of journal articles or dissertations thrashing through ideas that have been around for decades and briefly envied fields like genetics, where technology and new research have opened up a host of new and interesting theoretical challenges and put some old issues completely to rest. That research has also had some satisfying practical results, among them the release of prisoners from death rows in jails around the United States of America as DNA evidence proves their innocence. Why, I have wondered, isn't my field so fortunately theoretically refocused and practically applicable?

Research paper thumbnail of Archives for the Future: Global Perspectives on Audiovisual Archives in the 21st Century (review)

Notes, 2005

ARCHIVES, COPYRIGHT, CONFERENCES Archives for the Future: Global Perspectives on Audiovisual Arch... more ARCHIVES, COPYRIGHT, CONFERENCES Archives for the Future: Global Perspectives on Audiovisual Archives in the 21st Century. Edited by Anthony Seeger and Shubha Chaudhuri. Gurgaon, Haryana, India: Archives and Research Centre for Ethnomusicology, American Institute of Indian Studies; Calcutta: Seagull Books, 2004. [xxviii, 300 p. ISBN 81-7046-223-1. $30.] Illustrations, bibliography. Archives for the Future is an eye-opening book. In December 1999 a group of audiovisual archivists met in Manesar, India at a conference sponsored by the Ford Foundation. The intent was to bring together archivists from non-Western "industrializing" countries to discuss issues and possible solutions in audiovisual archives. Anthony Seeger and Shubha Chaudhuri, the conference's two organizers, edited the volume. Seeger, then head of Smithsonian Folkways, was the only representative from an American institution. The other conference organizer, Shubha Chaudhuri, is archivist at the Archives and Research Centre for Ethnomusicology (ARCE) of the American Institute of Indian Studies. The conference departed from the standard academic format in favor of group discussion and problem solving. All the participants spoke English, and each was required to provide a brief position paper. Rather than presenting their papers formally, however, the participants made them available to each other ahead of time, and then engaged in discussions that eventually resulted in formal documents. The book is made up of two introductory sections: one on preservation and technology, focusing on a presentation by Dietrich Schuller, who represented the International Association of Audio and Audiovisual Archives (IASA), and a section on "Rights, Intellectual Property, and Archives Today." Both include questions and discussion. The remainder of the book consists of the original position papers of the participants, transcriptions of role-playing sessions in which they represented the attitudes of archivists, collectors, and administrators, and the final working documents. A bibliography current through 2001 and a list of Web sites for pertinent organizations conclude the volume. On the whole it presents an enlightening view of audiovisual archives in other parts of the world. Americans tend to assume that we are automatically at the forefront of innovation and technology, but publications like this one reveal the fallacies in such assumptions. In his presentation on technology and preservation, Dietrich Schuller points out that in the past decade sound archives have undergone a paradigm change from focusing on preservation of the original recording to aiming for preservation of content. He urges archives to go digital at a time when American best practice was still wedded to reel-to-reel analog tape. Schuller's suggested solution, a tape-based digital mass storage system that resembles a jukebox, has been superseded by standalone servers with huge disk capacity, which are now available at relatively low cost. His recommendations to archivists to continue to raise awareness about audiovisual archives and their preservation goals, to train preservation specialists, to cooperate to preserve the audiovisual record, and to work for funding on all levels, cannot be timelier. Schuller's other point is that neither original recordings nor original hardware should be discarded-a concept that involves funding, training, and cooperation as well. The discussion following his presentation, as transcribed, follows up on technical points and covers everything from equipment for fieldwork to recommended storage conditions. This section of the book, now somewhat out-of-date, points out both the speed with which technology changes and the willingness of archivists in areas that might be considered marginalized to embrace it as they can. In the section on rights and ethics one detects the guidance of Anthony Seeger, who has been a tireless advocate for ethical collecting and dissemination of indigenous music. …

Research paper thumbnail of Long-Term Field Research in Ethnomusicology in the 21ST-CENTURY

Este artigo faz uma revisão da história da pesquisa de campo de longa duração na Etnomusicologia ... more Este artigo faz uma revisão da história da pesquisa de campo de longa duração na Etnomusicologia (e em alguma medida na Antropologia social) e descreve algumas mudanças resultantes das transformações tecnológicas e éticas no século 21. Com base na experiência do autor entre os índios Suyá/Kïsêdjê desde 1971, discute algumas das vantagens e desvantagens dessa modalidade de pesquisa de campo. Entre as vantagens estão o enriquecimento das perspectivas dos pesquisadores como resultado de um maior aprofundamento em campo, enriquecimento oriundo das mudanças tanto na comunidade quanto do pesquisador ao longo do tempo, possibilidades de colaboração e ajuda quanto aos anseios da comunidade, satisfação e realização pessoal, e, especialmente, o aumento do respeito pelas iniciativas dos sujeitos da pesquisa. Entre as desvantagens incluemse uma possível limitação no desenvolvimento intelectual, uma redução na intensidade da pesquisa, confi ança demais ou (alternativamente) muito estresse, bem c...

Research paper thumbnail of I Found It, How Can I Use It?" - Dealing With The Ethical And Legal Constraints Of Information Access

Research paper thumbnail of Music and Cultural Heritage Making in Latin America: An Afterword

espanolA la hora de considerar el papel de um postfacio para una lograda coleccion de articulos e... more espanolA la hora de considerar el papel de um postfacio para una lograda coleccion de articulos etnograficamente orientados y bien argumentados, me parece que podria hacer dos cosas para contextualizarlos. Em primer lugar, situar estos trabajos em el contexto de otras compilaciones de articulos que abordan las estrategias y efectos de algunos projectos de Patrimonio Cultural Inmaterial (PCI) fuera de las Americas. Em segundo lugar, me proponho discutir la influencia de la UNESCO em este tipo de projectos. EnglishIn pondering the role of an Afterword to such an accomplished group of closely argued ethnography-based papers, it seemed to me that I could try to do two things to contextualize their contributions. First, I could place these papers in the context of a few other collections of essays that examine the strategies and effects of Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) projects outside of the Americas. Second, I will discuss the influence of UNESCO on intangible cultural heritage (I...

Research paper thumbnail of Book Review The Musical Human: Rethinking John Blacking’s Ethnomusicology in the Twenty-First Century Reily, Suzel Ana (ed.) (2006)

Journal of The Musical Arts in Africa, 2010

Hampshire, England and Burlington, Vermont: Ashgate. ISBN: 075465138X. xiii, 220 pp. Photographs,... more Hampshire, England and Burlington, Vermont: Ashgate. ISBN: 075465138X. xiii, 220 pp. Photographs, figures, tables, musical notation. £100.00 (hardback). JOURNAL OF THE MUSICAL ARTS IN AFRICA VOLUME 7 2010, 101–103

Research paper thumbnail of How Does Ethnomusicology Matter?

Ethnomusicology Matters, 2019

Research paper thumbnail of Pesquisa De Campo De Longa Duração Na Etnomusicologia No Século 21

Research paper thumbnail of Sudamérica y sus mundos audibles – Cosmologías y prácticas sonoras de los pueblos indígenas (2015, libro completo, ed. Bernd Brabec de Mori, Matthias Lewy & Miguel A. García)

El presente volumen reúne una serie de trabajos que se refieren a distintos aspectos de la percep... more El presente volumen reúne una serie de trabajos que se refieren a distintos aspectos de la percepción y producción del sonido entre los pueblos indígenas de Latinoamérica. Las discusiones referidas tanto a las tierras bajas, como a los Andes y a Mesoamérica, abordan cuestiones relacionadas con la ontología, el animismo, el perspectivismo, las formas de interacción entre humanos y nohumanos y los condicionamientos de la percepción de la otredad, entre otras.