Catherine M Appert
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 81633 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Catherine M Appert |
| NOMBRES | Catherine M |
| APELLIDO | Appert |
| FIRMA | APPERT C M |
| AFILIACIONES | Cornell University |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 7 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 21 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 6 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2015 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Intimate Entanglements in the Ethnography of Performance
Resonances of Chindon-ya
Ethnomusicology beyond #MeToo
Responding to an increasing sense of urgency about sexual harassment and assault during ethnographic fieldwork in the era of #MeToo, this article offers a lesson plan for effecting systemic change in the discipline of ethnomusicology. We show how disciplinary assumptions about the field where harassment occurs reify colonizing histories of racial othering, reinscribe heteronormativity, and alternately conflate or erase specific types of violences…
Engendering Musical Ethnography
Between 2007 and 2015, in a series of trips ranging in length from two to ten months, I conducted ethnographic research with rappers in Dakar, Senegal. Drawing on those experiences, this article explores how primary modes of ethnographic knowing and being are nurtured outside spaces of musical performance and asks how a consideration of gendered moments that are not, per se, research moments-the time spent with families, the eating of meals, the …
On Hybridity in African Popular Music
This article critically considers the legacy of hybridity in African popular music studies and questions whether contemporary African engagements with diasporic popular musics like hip hop call for new interpretations of musical genre. Through ethnographic research with hip hoppers in Senegal, I explore how practices of musical intertextuality reinscribe global connections as diasporic ones and challenge the conditions for musical hybridity. I ar…
Locating Hip Hop Origins
This article complicates internationally circulating origin myths that alternately link hip hop to West African griot traditions or highlight the global resonance of its roots in the US inner city. I argue that such generalizing narratives potentially obscure how complex understandings of traditional cultural production inform local engagements with hip hop in Africa, and advocate instead for ethnographically generated interpretive frameworks tha…
To Make Song Without Singing
Examining the intersections of indigenous and popular genres in Senegalese music, this article outlines the processes through which concepts of song and singing changed-or were codified-through recording technologies in a semiformal musical economy, and shows how the seemingly universal phenomenon of singing (in this case, vocal performance writ large) has been inscribed as both indigenous and hegemonic through particular historical and social pr…
Locating Hip Hop Origins
This article complicates internationally circulating origin myths that alternately link hip hop to West African griot traditions or highlight the global resonance of its roots in the US inner city. I argue that such generalizing narratives potentially obscure how complex understandings of traditional cultural production inform local engagements with hip hop in Africa, and advocate instead for ethnographically generated interpretive frameworks tha…
On Hybridity in African Popular Music
This article critically considers the legacy of hybridity in African popular music studies and questions whether contemporary African engagements with diasporic popular musics like hip hop call for new interpretations of musical genre. Through ethnographic research with hip hoppers in Senegal, I explore how practices of musical intertextuality reinscribe global connections as diasporic ones and challenge the conditions for musical hybridity. I ar…
Engendering Musical Ethnography
Between 2007 and 2015, in a series of trips ranging in length from two to ten months, I conducted ethnographic research with rappers in Dakar, Senegal. Drawing on those experiences, this article explores how primary modes of ethnographic knowing and being are nurtured outside spaces of musical performance and asks how a consideration of gendered moments that are not, per se, research moments-the time spent with families, the eating of meals, the …
To Make Song Without Singing
Examining the intersections of indigenous and popular genres in Senegalese music, this article outlines the processes through which concepts of song and singing changed-or were codified-through recording technologies in a semiformal musical economy, and shows how the seemingly universal phenomenon of singing (in this case, vocal performance writ large) has been inscribed as both indigenous and hegemonic through particular historical and social pr…
Ethnomusicology beyond #MeToo
Responding to an increasing sense of urgency about sexual harassment and assault during ethnographic fieldwork in the era of #MeToo, this article offers a lesson plan for effecting systemic change in the discipline of ethnomusicology. We show how disciplinary assumptions about the field where harassment occurs reify colonizing histories of racial othering, reinscribe heteronormativity, and alternately conflate or erase specific types of violences…
To Make Song Without Singing
Examining the intersections of indigenous and popular genres in Senegalese music, this article outlines the processes through which concepts of song and singing changed-or were codified-through recording technologies in a semiformal musical economy, and shows how the seemingly universal phenomenon of singing (in this case, vocal performance writ large) has been inscribed as both indigenous and hegemonic through particular historical and social pr…
On Hybridity in African Popular Music
This article critically considers the legacy of hybridity in African popular music studies and questions whether contemporary African engagements with diasporic popular musics like hip hop call for new interpretations of musical genre. Through ethnographic research with hip hoppers in Senegal, I explore how practices of musical intertextuality reinscribe global connections as diasporic ones and challenge the conditions for musical hybridity. I ar…
Locating Hip Hop Origins
This article complicates internationally circulating origin myths that alternately link hip hop to West African griot traditions or highlight the global resonance of its roots in the US inner city. I argue that such generalizing narratives potentially obscure how complex understandings of traditional cultural production inform local engagements with hip hop in Africa, and advocate instead for ethnographically generated interpretive frameworks tha…
Engendering Musical Ethnography
Between 2007 and 2015, in a series of trips ranging in length from two to ten months, I conducted ethnographic research with rappers in Dakar, Senegal. Drawing on those experiences, this article explores how primary modes of ethnographic knowing and being are nurtured outside spaces of musical performance and asks how a consideration of gendered moments that are not, per se, research moments-the time spent with families, the eating of meals, the …
Ethnomusicology beyond #MeToo
Responding to an increasing sense of urgency about sexual harassment and assault during ethnographic fieldwork in the era of #MeToo, this article offers a lesson plan for effecting systemic change in the discipline of ethnomusicology. We show how disciplinary assumptions about the field where harassment occurs reify colonizing histories of racial othering, reinscribe heteronormativity, and alternately conflate or erase specific types of violences…
Resonances of Chindon-ya
Intimate Entanglements in the Ethnography of Performance
Sociology (7 obras) · Aesthetics (6 obras) · Art (6 obras) · Gender Studies (5 obras) · Music History and Culture (5 obras) · Musical (5 obras) · Anthropology (4 obras) · Ethnography (4 obras) · Caribbean and African Literature and Culture (3 obras) · Caribbean history, culture, and politics (3 obras)