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fromThe Wire Magazine - Adventures In Modern Music
1 month ago

Against The Grain: Western modes of criticism overlook music's spiritual dimensions - The Wire

Land-based, animist-influenced singing connects to ancestors and spirits, yet faces misrecognition, desacralisation, commodification, and colonial patriarchal bias in music scholarship and practice.
fromThe Wire Magazine - Adventures In Modern Music
1 month ago

Against The Grain: Western modes of criticism overlook music's spiritual dimensions - The Wire

I've just given a keynote presentation at Lines of Flight: Improvisation, Hope and Refuge, a conference hosted by the International Institute for Critical Studies in Improvisation. I'd been invited to talk about my performance research with D&aacutelava, a cross-genre project that is influenced by animist, Slavic cosmology and a land-based folk song tradition that has been in my family for generations.
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Environment
fromHigh Country News
4 months ago

Aspen 'eyes' keep us accountable to the natural world - High Country News

A walk through a Colorado aspen grove blends sensory memory, animistic perception of tree 'eyes', folklore about aspens, and personal childhood recollection.
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