Henry Stobart
Biographic Data
| ID | 74830 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Henry Stobart |
| GIVEN NAMES | Henry |
| FAMILY NAME | Stobart |
| SIGNATURE | STOBART H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Royal Holloway University of London |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 49 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Heritage Fever: Law and Cultural Politics in a Decolonizing State
Heritage Fever: Law and Cultural Politics in a Decolonizing State takes lawmaking around cultural heritage as a window through which to view the decentered workings of the Indigenous-focused Plurinational Bolivian State. The early twenty-first century brought to Bolivia its first Indigenous president, a new constitution, and a profusion of laws—many ratified at the highest levels of government—that recognized individual music and dance expression…
Rocking the Cradle
Chapter 2, “Rocking the Cradle,” explores how declaring a particular place as the “cradle” of a dance or music genre has become commonplace in Bolivian heritage-making politics. Through the case study of a dance figure that marks ongoing movement between rural and urban spaces (the ch’uta), the authors argue that cradle declarations are not about propertied claims, but rather about competing and sometimes purposeful ambiguities that surround terr…
Interlude: Keywords for Unesco Heritage
In “Interlude: Keywords for UNESCO Heritage,” the authors introduce the UNESCO apparatus, applying—à la Raymond Williams—a keywords approach, and providing the reader with an introduction to contested vocabulary that is well known to heritage studies scholars: “community,” “intangible heritage,” “inventory,” “member states,” “representative list,” “safeguarding,” “UNESCO,” and “World Heritage.” Each entry concludes with reflections on the keyword…
Inca Music Reimagined: Indigenist Discourses in Latin American Art Music, 1910–1930 . Vera Wolkowicz
Unsettling the return: Alternative curation and counterarchives
In this article, we complicate the notion of sonic return in the context of postmillennial digital media technologies that have transformed how Indigenous people of the Bolivian Andes engage self-reflectively with their own music and dance practices. We take a capacious approach to the notion of the archive and argue that these media interactions, where people make and circulate their own audiovisual materials, represent a space of counterarchiva…
Gender-marked heritage and intersectionality: Women's Singing as Heritage
This article charts a yet unsuccessful attempt to have a gender-marked musical expression legally recognised as heritage: ‘women’s singing’ of Potosí, Bolivia. Drawing on interviews and ethnographic fieldwork in Bolivian contexts, the authors read the gender-marked status of this initiative as a symbolic site of intercultural disjunctures. Conflicting gender politics sit at the crux of this difficulty to assemble ‘women’s singing’ as a heritage o…
Sacrificios sensacionales Deleitando los sentidos en los Andes bolivianos
La vida de casados se parece a la ulukipa (pimienta) Sultiru wiraqa asukar kanila La vida de casados es azcar canela Sunchu t'ikitay, amapulitay
Grasping Cacophony in Bolivian Heritage Otherwise
A “fever” of heritage registration (patrimonialización) is raging at multiple levels of Bolivian society. Under the pro-indigenous government of Evo Morales, many laws have moved specific cultural expressions into legal framings as intangible cultural heritage. In part, this booming interest in heritage may be related to desires to capitalize on cultures, to support cultural rights claims, and/or some combination of these economic and cultural ri…
Music, Indigeneity, Digital Media
The Devil in Nationalism: Indigenous Heritage and the Challenges of Decolonization
In 2006, Bolivians began living under their first indigenous president and undergoing an explicitly pro-indigenous "process of change," alongside much rhetoric of indigenous autonomy and state "decolonization." However, this article suggests that this same government's twenty-first century policies regarding intangible heritage and "culture" hardly mark a departure from mid-twentieth-century mestizo-dominated liberal nationalist projects. Through…
Constructing community in the digital home studio: Carnival, creativity and indigenous music video production in the Bolivian Andes
This paper examines issues surrounding the production of a Carnival music video VCD in the home studio of the Bolivian indigenous(originario)musician and cultural activist Gregorio Mamani. On the one hand, continuities with rural productive practices suggest a model for the 'home studio' more resembling a 'cottage industry' than the kind of 'isolated' activity separate from family life that Paul Théberge has described for the case of North Americ…
The new (ethno)musicologies
Over the past twenty years, a range of radical developments has revolutionized musicology, leading certain practitioners to describe their discipline as New. What has happened to ethnomusicology during this period? Have its theories, methodologies, and values remain rooted in the 1970s and 1980s or have they also transformed? What directions might or should it take in the new millennium? The New (Ethno)musicologies seeks to answer these questions…
In Touch with the Earth? Musical Instruments, Gender and Fertility in the Bolivian Andes
This essay discusses beliefs and practices concerning gender, musical instruments and vocal performance in rural communities of northern Potosi′, in the Bolivian Andes. While instrumental performance is a male preserve, critical to the construction and expression of manhood, it is also argued that much value is ascribed to women's singing and creation of song poetry. It is further suggested that women's exclusion from instrumental performance sho…
Knowledge and Learning in the Andes: Ethnographic Perspectives
List of illustrations List of contributors Introduction Rosaleen Howard, Francoise Barbira-Freedman and Henry Stobart Part I: Multiple Media in the Creation and Transmission of Knowledge 1 Yachay: The Tragedia del fin de Atahuallpa as evidence of the Colonisation of Knowledge in the Andes Rosaleen Howard 2 Transmission of Knowledge through Textiles: Weaving and Learning How to Live Lindsey Crickmay 3 Coloured Knowledge: Colour Perception and the …
The Andean anacrusis? Rhythmic structure and perception in Easter songs of Northern Potosí, Bolivia
This paper is the result of a collaboration between an ethnomusicologist (Henry Stobart) and music psychologist (Ian Cross). It examines the interaction of a variety of processes underlying the rhythmic structure and perception of a song genre of the Bolivian Andes: these include linguistic prosody, movement patterns, perceptual constraints and the dynamics of the culture's musical aesthetics. The “Easter songs “ which form the focus of this stud…
Flourishing horns and enchanted tubers: Music and potatoes in highland Bolivia
This paper examines the relationship between musical performance and the potato and its cultivation in a rural Andean hamlet. The potato, it emerges, is not viewed as a mundane staple, but is central to the structuring of musical expression. Unlike industrialised societies, musical performance is not abstracted away from everyday objects and activities. Rather, they provide the basis and inspiriation for such expression, revealing a very differen…
The Devil in Nationalism: Indigenous Heritage and the Challenges of Decolonization
In 2006, Bolivians began living under their first indigenous president and undergoing an explicitly pro-indigenous "process of change," alongside much rhetoric of indigenous autonomy and state "decolonization." However, this article suggests that this same government's twenty-first century policies regarding intangible heritage and "culture" hardly mark a departure from mid-twentieth-century mestizo-dominated liberal nationalist projects. Through…
Constructing community in the digital home studio: Carnival, creativity and indigenous music video production in the Bolivian Andes
This paper examines issues surrounding the production of a Carnival music video VCD in the home studio of the Bolivian indigenous(originario)musician and cultural activist Gregorio Mamani. On the one hand, continuities with rural productive practices suggest a model for the 'home studio' more resembling a 'cottage industry' than the kind of 'isolated' activity separate from family life that Paul Théberge has described for the case of North Americ…
Grasping Cacophony in Bolivian Heritage Otherwise
A “fever” of heritage registration (patrimonialización) is raging at multiple levels of Bolivian society. Under the pro-indigenous government of Evo Morales, many laws have moved specific cultural expressions into legal framings as intangible cultural heritage. In part, this booming interest in heritage may be related to desires to capitalize on cultures, to support cultural rights claims, and/or some combination of these economic and cultural ri…
In Touch with the Earth? Musical Instruments, Gender and Fertility in the Bolivian Andes
This essay discusses beliefs and practices concerning gender, musical instruments and vocal performance in rural communities of northern Potosi′, in the Bolivian Andes. While instrumental performance is a male preserve, critical to the construction and expression of manhood, it is also argued that much value is ascribed to women's singing and creation of song poetry. It is further suggested that women's exclusion from instrumental performance sho…
Flourishing horns and enchanted tubers: Music and potatoes in highland Bolivia
This paper examines the relationship between musical performance and the potato and its cultivation in a rural Andean hamlet. The potato, it emerges, is not viewed as a mundane staple, but is central to the structuring of musical expression. Unlike industrialised societies, musical performance is not abstracted away from everyday objects and activities. Rather, they provide the basis and inspiriation for such expression, revealing a very differen…
Gender-marked heritage and intersectionality: Women's Singing as Heritage
This article charts a yet unsuccessful attempt to have a gender-marked musical expression legally recognised as heritage: ‘women’s singing’ of Potosí, Bolivia. Drawing on interviews and ethnographic fieldwork in Bolivian contexts, the authors read the gender-marked status of this initiative as a symbolic site of intercultural disjunctures. Conflicting gender politics sit at the crux of this difficulty to assemble ‘women’s singing’ as a heritage o…
The Andean anacrusis? Rhythmic structure and perception in Easter songs of Northern Potosí, Bolivia
This paper is the result of a collaboration between an ethnomusicologist (Henry Stobart) and music psychologist (Ian Cross). It examines the interaction of a variety of processes underlying the rhythmic structure and perception of a song genre of the Bolivian Andes: these include linguistic prosody, movement patterns, perceptual constraints and the dynamics of the culture's musical aesthetics. The “Easter songs “ which form the focus of this stud…
Flourishing horns and enchanted tubers: Music and potatoes in highland Bolivia
This paper examines the relationship between musical performance and the potato and its cultivation in a rural Andean hamlet. The potato, it emerges, is not viewed as a mundane staple, but is central to the structuring of musical expression. Unlike industrialised societies, musical performance is not abstracted away from everyday objects and activities. Rather, they provide the basis and inspiriation for such expression, revealing a very differen…
The Andean anacrusis? Rhythmic structure and perception in Easter songs of Northern Potosí, Bolivia
This paper is the result of a collaboration between an ethnomusicologist (Henry Stobart) and music psychologist (Ian Cross). It examines the interaction of a variety of processes underlying the rhythmic structure and perception of a song genre of the Bolivian Andes: these include linguistic prosody, movement patterns, perceptual constraints and the dynamics of the culture's musical aesthetics. The “Easter songs “ which form the focus of this stud…
Knowledge and Learning in the Andes: Ethnographic Perspectives
List of illustrations List of contributors Introduction Rosaleen Howard, Francoise Barbira-Freedman and Henry Stobart Part I: Multiple Media in the Creation and Transmission of Knowledge 1 Yachay: The Tragedia del fin de Atahuallpa as evidence of the Colonisation of Knowledge in the Andes Rosaleen Howard 2 Transmission of Knowledge through Textiles: Weaving and Learning How to Live Lindsey Crickmay 3 Coloured Knowledge: Colour Perception and the …
The new (ethno)musicologies
Over the past twenty years, a range of radical developments has revolutionized musicology, leading certain practitioners to describe their discipline as New. What has happened to ethnomusicology during this period? Have its theories, methodologies, and values remain rooted in the 1970s and 1980s or have they also transformed? What directions might or should it take in the new millennium? The New (Ethno)musicologies seeks to answer these questions…
In Touch with the Earth? Musical Instruments, Gender and Fertility in the Bolivian Andes
This essay discusses beliefs and practices concerning gender, musical instruments and vocal performance in rural communities of northern Potosi′, in the Bolivian Andes. While instrumental performance is a male preserve, critical to the construction and expression of manhood, it is also argued that much value is ascribed to women's singing and creation of song poetry. It is further suggested that women's exclusion from instrumental performance sho…
Constructing community in the digital home studio: Carnival, creativity and indigenous music video production in the Bolivian Andes
This paper examines issues surrounding the production of a Carnival music video VCD in the home studio of the Bolivian indigenous(originario)musician and cultural activist Gregorio Mamani. On the one hand, continuities with rural productive practices suggest a model for the 'home studio' more resembling a 'cottage industry' than the kind of 'isolated' activity separate from family life that Paul Théberge has described for the case of North Americ…
The Devil in Nationalism: Indigenous Heritage and the Challenges of Decolonization
In 2006, Bolivians began living under their first indigenous president and undergoing an explicitly pro-indigenous "process of change," alongside much rhetoric of indigenous autonomy and state "decolonization." However, this article suggests that this same government's twenty-first century policies regarding intangible heritage and "culture" hardly mark a departure from mid-twentieth-century mestizo-dominated liberal nationalist projects. Through…
Music, Indigeneity, Digital Media
Sacrificios sensacionales Deleitando los sentidos en los Andes bolivianos
La vida de casados se parece a la ulukipa (pimienta) Sultiru wiraqa asukar kanila La vida de casados es azcar canela Sunchu t'ikitay, amapulitay
Grasping Cacophony in Bolivian Heritage Otherwise
A “fever” of heritage registration (patrimonialización) is raging at multiple levels of Bolivian society. Under the pro-indigenous government of Evo Morales, many laws have moved specific cultural expressions into legal framings as intangible cultural heritage. In part, this booming interest in heritage may be related to desires to capitalize on cultures, to support cultural rights claims, and/or some combination of these economic and cultural ri…
Gender-marked heritage and intersectionality: Women's Singing as Heritage
This article charts a yet unsuccessful attempt to have a gender-marked musical expression legally recognised as heritage: ‘women’s singing’ of Potosí, Bolivia. Drawing on interviews and ethnographic fieldwork in Bolivian contexts, the authors read the gender-marked status of this initiative as a symbolic site of intercultural disjunctures. Conflicting gender politics sit at the crux of this difficulty to assemble ‘women’s singing’ as a heritage o…
Unsettling the return: Alternative curation and counterarchives
In this article, we complicate the notion of sonic return in the context of postmillennial digital media technologies that have transformed how Indigenous people of the Bolivian Andes engage self-reflectively with their own music and dance practices. We take a capacious approach to the notion of the archive and argue that these media interactions, where people make and circulate their own audiovisual materials, represent a space of counterarchiva…
Heritage Fever: Law and Cultural Politics in a Decolonizing State
Heritage Fever: Law and Cultural Politics in a Decolonizing State takes lawmaking around cultural heritage as a window through which to view the decentered workings of the Indigenous-focused Plurinational Bolivian State. The early twenty-first century brought to Bolivia its first Indigenous president, a new constitution, and a profusion of laws—many ratified at the highest levels of government—that recognized individual music and dance expression…
Rocking the Cradle
Chapter 2, “Rocking the Cradle,” explores how declaring a particular place as the “cradle” of a dance or music genre has become commonplace in Bolivian heritage-making politics. Through the case study of a dance figure that marks ongoing movement between rural and urban spaces (the ch’uta), the authors argue that cradle declarations are not about propertied claims, but rather about competing and sometimes purposeful ambiguities that surround terr…
Interlude: Keywords for Unesco Heritage
In “Interlude: Keywords for UNESCO Heritage,” the authors introduce the UNESCO apparatus, applying—à la Raymond Williams—a keywords approach, and providing the reader with an introduction to contested vocabulary that is well known to heritage studies scholars: “community,” “intangible heritage,” “inventory,” “member states,” “representative list,” “safeguarding,” “UNESCO,” and “World Heritage.” Each entry concludes with reflections on the keyword…
Inca Music Reimagined: Indigenist Discourses in Latin American Art Music, 1910–1930 . Vera Wolkowicz
Art (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Aesthetics (6 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (6 works) · Diverse Musicological Studies (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Indigenous (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Geography (4 works) · Law (4 works)