Giving voice to the 'dignified man

Reflections on Global Popular Music

Bibliographic Data

ID4304595
AuthorsHelena Simonett (0000-0003-1044-4804, Vanderbilt University, corresponding author)
Year2011
Volume30
Issue2
Pages227-244
Publication date2011-05-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenuePopular Music (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0261-1430 • E-ISSN: 1474-0095
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0261143011000043
OpenAlexW2097894554
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited23

As music increasingly links the global and the local and vice versa, fusions of diverse musical genres and styles burgeon. Globalisation theory (specifically Appadurai) has spurred explorations of musical hybridity and cross-fertilisation among scholars from different academic fields focusing on music. In this essay, I argue for the necessity of understanding global cultural interactions and musical appropriations or exchanges in the context of the ambivalences of the globalised mass diffusion and the power asymmetries involved. The purpose of this paper is to contextualise contemporary theoretical considerations by describing the Yoremensamble project - a government-sponsored cultural project in which a group of urban mestizo musicians from northwestern Mexico appropriated local indigenous musical expressions to produce an album titled 'Hombre digno' ('Dignified man'). The album is just one of many projects around the globe in which artists self-consciously re-localize global popular music styles. The resulting sonic fusions point to the need for a critical cultural analysis of such translocal and global phenomena which is rooted in ethnography

Aesthetics · Art · Context (archaeology · Ethnography · Globalization · Globe · Hybridity · Indigenous · Media studies · Musical · Political science · Popular music · Power (physics · Sociology · Violin musical styles · Visual arts · Anthropology · Diverse Musicological Studies · Globalization and Cultural Identity · History · Law · Music History and Culture · Psychology

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