Dissertation Research; Social Fragmentation and Youth Identity in Trindad Popular Music

论文研究；

• 批准号: 9630032
• 负责人: Paulla Ebron
• 金额: $ 0.35万
• 依托单位: Stanford University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1996
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1996-08-01 至 1997-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9630032&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Dissertation; Research; Social; Fragmentation; Youth

This project supports the dissertation research of a cultural anthropologist from Stanford University. The project is to study the role of popular music in defining the self-identity of young people in Trinidad. Calypso music has always played a central role in expressing popular social concerns in the country's history, from independence through its current position as an underdeveloped node in a transnational flow of people and resources. Using ethnographic techniques of participant observation and intensive interviewing, as well as drawing upon the results of a random survey of 850 households in Trinidad and extensive demographic data on music listenership by location, age, gender, socio-economic status and ethnicity, the student will document what music means to the `oil boom` (1970s to early 1980s) generation of young adults. The project will investigate the variation according to race, class and gender in how people listen to and participate in popular music. The project will analyze changes in the musical styles (some seen as more `escapist`, others as more `political` or `roots oriented`), audience reactions, and the general social and cultural antecedents to musical production. This project is important because is will advance our understanding of how locally produced music draws on a global set of sources to become meaningful to diverse communities. Given the enormous growth in importance of popular music as a source of identity for young people in the contemporary world, this case study will produce a valuable advance in our knowledge about the meaning of music for young people. In addition this project will add to our society's expertise about this important region of the world.

该项目支持斯坦福大学的文化人类学家的论文研究。 该项目是研究流行音乐在定义特立尼达年轻人的自我认同中的作用。 Calypso音乐一直在表达该国历史上流行的社会问题，从独立到目前作为人和资源的跨国流程中的欠发达节点的地位。 使用参与者观察和深入访谈的民族志技术，以及借鉴特立尼达850个家庭的随机调查的结果，以及广泛的人口统计学数据，划分为音乐听众，按地点，年龄，性别，性别，社会经济地位和族裔划分，学生将记录音乐对``1970年代至1980年代初的年轻成人''的音乐意味着什么。 该项目将根据种族，阶级和性别来调查人们如何聆听和参与流行音乐的方式。 该项目将分析音乐风格的变化（有些人被视为更多“逃避”，其他人则将其更加``政治''或````'''或```'''，观众反应以及对音乐制作的一般社会和文化前提。 该项目很重要，因为IT将促进我们对当地制作的音乐如何利用一系列全球来源的理解，以对多元化社区有意义。 鉴于流行音乐作为当代世界中年轻人的认同来源的巨大增长，该案例研究将在我们对年轻人的音乐意义的了解中产生宝贵的进步。 此外，该项目还将增加我们社会对这个重要地区的专业知识。