Sound and Circulation: Immobility and Obduracy in South African Electronic Music
Sound and Circulation: Immobility and Obduracy in South African Electronic Music
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声音与循环：南非电子音乐的静止与僵化
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2015
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Gavin Steingo
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Gavin Steingo
这篇文章回应了最近民族音乐学中的一个普遍假设，即今天的音乐比以往任何时候都更容易获得、无处不在和移动性。特别是，我认为，当面对南非的音速实践时，这种假设是站不住脚的。基于在约翰内斯堡及其周边地区与电子音乐家的实地工作，我问道，在音乐设备和存储设备不断故障，人们基本上无法移动的背景下，音乐是如何练习和体验的。我关注四个因素：城市空间的物理布局；犯罪和盗窃的内在原因；音乐设备的故障；以及信息存储和传输的中断。通过考察这些因素，我阐明了崩溃、顽固和失败对音乐创作和体验产生和负面影响的方式。
This paper responds to the common assumption in much recent ethnomusicology that today music is more accessible, ubiquitous and mobile than ever before. In particular, I argue that this assumption runs aground when confronted with sonic practices in South Africa. Based on fieldwork with electronic musicians in Johannesburg and its surrounding areas, I ask how music is practiced and experienced in a context where musical equipment and storage devices constantly break down and where people are largely immobile. I focus on four factors: the physical layout of urban spaces; the immanence of crime and theft; the breakdown of musical equipment; and the interruption of information storage and transfer. By examining these factors, I elucidate the ways in which breakdown, obduracy and failure have generative as well as negative effects on music production and experience.