Transmitting Musical Heritage

传播音乐遗产研究项目解决了与表演背景和意识形态有关的元数据如何通过社区音乐实践与声音一起传播的中心问题。在谢勒迈(2008)和希金斯(2012)工作的基础上，研究小组在民族音乐学和音乐社会学之间建立了一座桥梁，在社区背景下探索这些问题。谢菲尔德大学的研究人员利用合作民族志的过程，与三个社区合作伙伴共同开发、传递和分析这一主题。这项研究是为了回应现有社区音乐团体对各种国际音乐遗产的明确需求而开发的。合作伙伴包括致力于英国本土音乐传统的教育组织Soundpost；收集谢菲尔德长期居民歌曲的巴别尔歌曲组织，以便在社区合唱团演出；以及Art on the Run，一个网络，包括更多寻求临时庇护的寻求表演和教学机会的难民音乐家。这项研究询问与这些团体相关的音乐家向谁传播素材，他们认为传递哪些额外的音乐元素很重要，他们如何尝试实现这一点，以及这项活动对社区有哪些影响？音乐是社会的文化产物，是意识形态和行为的声音反映，是表演的遗产。当音乐声音从演奏者转移到演奏者，或者从演奏者转移到观众时，我们质疑这些文化元数据伴随着它传播的是什么，以及如何传播。这项研究将把传播解读为通过公开的教育背景(工作坊)、基于表演的背景(音乐会)或基于情景的传统(仪式音乐)来“传递”。许多音乐活动是作为日常生活的一部分进行的，尽管随着慈善组织的发展和断断续续的资金提供，音乐在许多文化中的中介方式正在发生变化。“社区音乐”通常通过研讨会的形式进行，有一个明确的社会目标，那就是把参与者聚集在一起，建立社区。这项研究借鉴了民族音乐学、音乐社会学和社区研究的领域，探讨了社区和音乐的这种二元性--作为社区制作的音乐和通过音乐制作的社区。

The Transmitting Musical Heritage research project addresses the central question of how meta-data relating to performance contexts and ideologies are transmitted along with sound through community music practices. Drawing on the work of Shelemay (2008) and Higgins (2012), the research team form a bridge between ethnomusicology and music sociology to explore these issues in a community context. Employing a process of collaborative ethnography, researchers from The University of Sheffield work with three community partners to develop, deliver and analyse this topic.The research has developed in response to an identified need by existing community music groups working with various international forms of music heritage. The partners include Soundpost, an education group working with indigenous British musical traditions; Babel Songs, an organisation collecting songs from long-term residents of Sheffield with roots elsewhere for performance in a community choir setting; and Arts on the Run, a network including more temporary asylum seeking refugee musicians who seek performance and teaching opportunities. The research asks to whom musicians associated with these groups are transmitting materials, what extra musical elements they deem important to pass on, how they attempt to achieve this, and in what ways does this activity impact on communities? The research will impact on current thinking in community music delivery where items of music heritage are to be considered.Music is a cultural product of society, a sonic reflection of ideologies and behaviours, a performative heritage. When musical sound is transferred from player to player, or player to audience, we question what of this cultural meta-data travels with it, and how. The research will interpret transmission as 'passing on' through either overtly educational contexts (workshops), performance based contexts (concerts) or situational based traditions (ceremonial musics). Much musical activity takes place as a part of 'everyday life', though with the development of charitable organisations and the intermittent provision of funding, the ways music is mediated within many cultures is changing. 'Community Music', typically executed through a workshop situation, has an explicitly social aim, to draw participants together and build community. This research draws on the fields of ethnomusicology, music sociology and studies of communities to investigate this duality of approach to community and music - as music made by communities and as community made through music.