John Baily
Biographic Data
| ID | 180732 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John Baily |
| GIVEN NAMES | John |
| FAMILY NAME | Baily |
| SIGNATURE | BAILY J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Goldsmiths University of London |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 54 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 96 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 53 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
John Blacking and the “Human/Musical Instrument Interface”: Two Plucked Lutes from Afghanistan
Blacking’s theories about music structures and the physical movements in their performance –– Baily’s experimental work on motor control in pointing at visual targets –– ethnomusicological research on playing two Afghan lutes (dutar and rubab) with radically differing linear and tiered arrays of note positions –– learning to perform as an ethnomusicological research technique –– how the typical repertoires of the two lute types are related to the…
Launching the journal, opening the forum
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Launching the journal, opening the forum
Launching the journal, opening the forum
Launching the journal, opening the forum
Paul Oliver's contribution to ethnomusicology
Paul Oliver never described himself as an ethnomusicologist but much of his work is strongly ethnomusicological in approach. This article looks at his pioneering research in these terms, re-examines some of his ideas about African retentions in the blues as put forward in his book Savannah Syncopators, discusses critically the reliability of sonic evidence for establishing historical connections between different kinds of music, and concludes tha…
Music Is In Our Blood: Gujarati Muslim Musicians in the UK
In the past, members of the Muslim Khalifa community in Gujarat (India) held a low position in the social hierarchy, a status closely bound up with two of their hereditary occupations, barber and musician. This paper examines changing Khalifa attitudes towards their previously stigmatised occupations now that they are a well-established and relatively successful community in the UK. While the connection with hairdressing is acknowledged and activ…
Introduction: Music and Migration
Attention to migration and the activities of migrants have added vigour to studies of a range of cultural phenomena from literature and film to architecture and food. Music is particularly interesting as it is one of the widest spread and most easily created forms of cultural production. Ethnomusicology has long been attentive to processes and results of migration but it is only relatively recently that this has had an impact on studies of migrat…
Rickman, Thomas
Anthology of World Music: The Music of Afghanistan
CDs
A viagem dos sons/The journey of sounds. 12 CDs, Tradisom 1998, Lisbon. Ed. José Moÿas. US$225 (including airfreight), www.tradisom.com. VS01 Goa. Gavana. Text by Susana Sardo, University of Aveiro, Portugal; sound engineer M. Fernandes. VS02 Sri Lanka. Cantigas do Ceilãol Ceylonese cantigas. Recordings and text by Kenneth David Jackson, Yale University, USA. VS03 Sri Lanka. Baila Ceilão cafrinhai!/ Dance Ceylon kafrinha! Recordings and text by K…
Afghanistan
Rabāb
Ṭanbūr
Dutār
Blacking, John
L'interaction homme-instrument: Vers une conceptualisation
L’instrument de musique est une sorte de transducteur qui convertit les schemas de mouvements corporels en structures sonores. En analysant deux luths a cordes pincees d’Afghanistan : le dutâr a quatorze cordes de Herat et le rubâb, on aborde ici l’interface entre le systeme sensori-moteur humain et la disposition spatiale de l’instrument de musique. Cette comparaison montre comment certains aspects de la structure melodique s’adaptent ergonomiqu…
Learning to perform as a research technique in ethnomusicology
This article starts with a brief discussion of Hood's notion of bi-musicality and considers several reports in the literature of learning to perform as a research technique. The author's experiences of learning to play dutâr and rubâb in Afghanistan during the 1970s are described in some detail. The article concludes with a discussion of the many advantages of learning to perform as part of the fieldwork enterprise
Songs of the Caged, Songs of the Free: Music and the Vietnamese Refugee Experience (Adelaida Reyes)
BOOK REVIEWS Get access Songs of the Caged, Songs of the Free: Music and the Vietnamese Refugee Experience. By Adelaida Reyes. Philidelphia: Temple University Press, 1999. xix + 218 pp. $59, ISBN 1 56639 685 9 hb; $19.95, ISBN 1 56639 686 7 pb. John Baily John Baily Goldsmiths College, University of London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Refugee Studies, Volume 13, Issue 4, December 2000, Pages …
Afghanistan: Traditional Musicians. A Journey to an Unknown Musical World
Discours sur la musique à Hérat (Afghanistan)
et les musiciens de Hérat, il joue lui-même du rubâb kabouli et du dutâr hérati
Thenaghma-ye kashâlof Afghanistan
The naghma‐ye kashâl, the “extended instrumental piece”, is a genre of instrumental art music specific to Afghanistan. Prescriptive notations for 14 such compositions in a variety of melodic modes are presented. They were collected in the form of dictated oral notations in the 1970s from Ustad Mohammad Omar of Kabul and Ustad Amir Jan Khushnawaz of Herat. Some of these compositions are rarely heard today, and the aim is to put them on record for …
Commentary
Using Tests of Sound Perception in Fieldwork
Comment l'ethnomusicologie definit-elle la perception populaire de ce qui est musique de ce qui n'est que bruit ? Une analyse de la conception de la musique dans differentes societes ou cultures montre que celle-ci et le plus souvent entendue comme etant une musique instrumentale, et est ainsi distinguee du chant. Le debat sur ce qui est constitutif de la musique prend toute son importance quand, comme dans certains pays musulmans a certaines epo…
Children in the Muslim Middle East
Today nearly half of all people in the Middle East are under the age of fifteen. Yet little is known about the new generation of boys and girls who are growing up in a world vastly different from that of their parents, a generation who will be the leaders of tomorrow. This groundbreaking anthology is an attempt to look at the current situation of children by presenting materials by both Middle Eastern and Western scholars. Many of the works have …
Introduction: Music and Migration
Attention to migration and the activities of migrants have added vigour to studies of a range of cultural phenomena from literature and film to architecture and food. Music is particularly interesting as it is one of the widest spread and most easily created forms of cultural production. Ethnomusicology has long been attentive to processes and results of migration but it is only relatively recently that this has had an impact on studies of migrat…
Learning to perform as a research technique in ethnomusicology
This article starts with a brief discussion of Hood's notion of bi-musicality and considers several reports in the literature of learning to perform as a research technique. The author's experiences of learning to play dutâr and rubâb in Afghanistan during the 1970s are described in some detail. The article concludes with a discussion of the many advantages of learning to perform as part of the fieldwork enterprise
Music in the Culture of Northern Afghanistan
Sufi Music of India and Pakistan: Sound, Context and Meaning in Qawwali
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Cross-cultural perspectives in popular music: The case of Afghanistan
It is inevitable that the first issue of this yearbook will raise questions about the use of the term 'popular music'. I do not believe that this question is going to be easy to answer and, as a precaution, I think we should regard quick and seemingly clearcut solutions with suspicion. In fact, we may eventually have to operate with intuitive, poorly defined and rather elastic definitions of popular music. Before we resort to that expedient, howe…
Recent Changes in the Dutar of Herat
The recent development of a new musical instrument, the 14 stringed Herati dut-r, was first described by Slobin (1969b), who included two examples of this instrument on his record The Music of Afghanistan, Vol. 2: Music of the Pashtoons, Heratis and Kazakhs (Anthology 4004). Slobin suggested that the instrument had developed through a series of intermediate stages from a dut5r having two strings. Further information was collected by Lorraine Saka…
The Role of Music in Three British Muslim Communities
Diaspora 4:1 1995 The Role of Music in Three British Muslim Communities John Baily University of London 1. Introduction Many years ago Melville Herskovits argued that music has a special use in the study of cultural contact in the diasporan situation. Herskovits was much involved in exploringAfrican retentions in the New World. He believed that "[t]he peculiar value ofstudying music ... is that, even more than other aspects of culture, its patter…
Music Is In Our Blood: Gujarati Muslim Musicians in the UK
In the past, members of the Muslim Khalifa community in Gujarat (India) held a low position in the social hierarchy, a status closely bound up with two of their hereditary occupations, barber and musician. This paper examines changing Khalifa attitudes towards their previously stigmatised occupations now that they are a well-established and relatively successful community in the UK. While the connection with hairdressing is acknowledged and activ…
John Blacking - Reminiscences
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John Blacking and his Place in Ethnomusicology
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A System of Modes Used in the Urban Music of Afghanistan
T he question of the melodic modes used in the music of Afghanistan is a complicated issue and one that has received scant attention in ethnomusicological literature. Problems arise from two identifiable factors. Firstly, there is the diverse range of regional musics in Afghanistan, associated with the various ethnic groups making up the population.' These regional musics are usually identified in Dari (Afghan Persian) as mahali, as local or vill…
Thenaghma-ye kashâlof Afghanistan
The naghma‐ye kashâl, the “extended instrumental piece”, is a genre of instrumental art music specific to Afghanistan. Prescriptive notations for 14 such compositions in a variety of melodic modes are presented. They were collected in the form of dictated oral notations in the 1970s from Ustad Mohammad Omar of Kabul and Ustad Amir Jan Khushnawaz of Herat. Some of these compositions are rarely heard today, and the aim is to put them on record for …
Amin-e Diwaneh: The Musician as Madman
While engaged in research on the long-necked lute called Herati dutār in 1974, I was frequently told about a virtuoso dutāri (dutār player) who had died a few years earlier after a fight with a gang of 'thugs' in the city of Kandahar. His name was Amin-e Diwaneh. The Persian word diwāneh means 'crazy', and was applied to people who (in terms of Western psychiatry) might be classed as 'insane', though the cause of insanity was usually attributed t…
Anthropological and Psychological Approaches to the Study of Music Theory and Musical Cognition
In the last decade some of the most significant research in ethnomusicology has resulted from anthropologically orientated inquiries into the nature of musical cognition. We have witnessed the development of a ethnomusicology; based on the exploration of emic notions about music. Some studies have been directed specifically to explore these cognitive representations, for example: Zemp (1979) on the panpipe ensembles of the 'Are'are; Feld (1981) o…
Recent Changes in the Dutar of Herat
The recent development of a new musical instrument, the 14 stringed Herati dut-r, was first described by Slobin (1969b), who included two examples of this instrument on his record The Music of Afghanistan, Vol. 2: Music of the Pashtoons, Heratis and Kazakhs (Anthology 4004). Slobin suggested that the instrument had developed through a series of intermediate stages from a dut5r having two strings. Further information was collected by Lorraine Saka…
Music in the Culture of Northern Afghanistan
A Description of the Naqqarakhana of Herat, Afghanistan
Cross-cultural perspectives in popular music: The case of Afghanistan
It is inevitable that the first issue of this yearbook will raise questions about the use of the term 'popular music'. I do not believe that this question is going to be easy to answer and, as a precaution, I think we should regard quick and seemingly clearcut solutions with suspicion. In fact, we may eventually have to operate with intuitive, poorly defined and rather elastic definitions of popular music. Before we resort to that expedient, howe…
A System of Modes Used in the Urban Music of Afghanistan
T he question of the melodic modes used in the music of Afghanistan is a complicated issue and one that has received scant attention in ethnomusicological literature. Problems arise from two identifiable factors. Firstly, there is the diverse range of regional musics in Afghanistan, associated with the various ethnic groups making up the population.' These regional musics are usually identified in Dari (Afghan Persian) as mahali, as local or vill…
Collusion
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The Soul of Mbira
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Music in the Mind: The Concepts of Music and Musician in Afghanistan
Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Three Diverse Areas of Afghanistan Chapter 3 Islam and Music Chapter 4 The Concept of Music Chapter 5 The Concept of Musician Chapter 6 Musical and Conceptual Relationships Chapter 7 Summary
Modèles d'imprégnation musicale en Afghanistan
L’etude de l’impregnation musicale est une clef pour mieux comprendre les systemes musicaux en tant que phenomenes cognitifs, car elle montre comment se construisent des schemes cognitifs et quelles sont les informations necessaires a ce processus. Elle devoile ainsi la nature du savoir musical, tout en permettant de differencier ses elements innes de ceux acquis socialement. Partant de l’environnement musical de l’enfant, notre analyse se propos…
Amin-e Diwaneh: The Musician as Madman
While engaged in research on the long-necked lute called Herati dutār in 1974, I was frequently told about a virtuoso dutāri (dutār player) who had died a few years earlier after a fight with a gang of 'thugs' in the city of Kandahar. His name was Amin-e Diwaneh. The Persian word diwāneh means 'crazy', and was applied to people who (in terms of Western psychiatry) might be classed as 'insane', though the cause of insanity was usually attributed t…
Amir: An Afghan Refugee Musician's Life in Peshawar, Pakistan
Anthropological and Psychological Approaches to the Study of Music Theory and Musical Cognition
In the last decade some of the most significant research in ethnomusicology has resulted from anthropologically orientated inquiries into the nature of musical cognition. We have witnessed the development of a ethnomusicology; based on the exploration of emic notions about music. Some studies have been directed specifically to explore these cognitive representations, for example: Zemp (1979) on the panpipe ensembles of the 'Are'are; Feld (1981) o…
ICTM Colloquium on Film and Video
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Sufi Music of India and Pakistan: Sound, Context and Meaning in Qawwali
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Amir: An Afghan Refugee Musician's Life in Peshawar, Pakistan
Uksuum Cauyai: The Drums of Winter
Fumbi Jazz Band
Music of Afghanistan, Professional Musicians in the City of Herat
Music of Afghanistan: Professional Musicians in the City of Herat
John Blacking and his Place in Ethnomusicology
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Music of Afghanistan: Professional Musicians in the City of Herat
Herat, city and province a brief history of music in Herat Afghan urban music in the 20th century the science of music Kabuli art music popular and Herati music the social organization of musicians social contexts of musical performance music in the Herati value system interpreting musical change in Herat
Music of Afghanistan, Professional Musicians in the City of Herat
Music of Afghanistan. Professional Musicians in the City of Herat
John Blacking - Reminiscences
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Films: Jüüzli du Muotatal: Quatre films de Hugo Zemp
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