Naslov
"Are you here to listen?": On the importance of place and audience through the prism of contemporary singer‐songwriter scene in Zagreb

Autori
Halužan, Tanja

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, neobjavljeni rad, znanstveni

Skup
7th Symposium of the ICTM study group on Music and dance in Southeastern Europe

Mjesto i datum
Online, 23.04.2021. - 25.04.2021

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Podatak o recenziji nije dostupan

Ključne riječi
Place ; space ; singer-songwriter ; scene

Sažetak
Developing since the mid-2000s, a new singer- songwriter scene in Zagreb is characterised by a continually growing group of people who make, perform, and consume music in a specific way. Through exploration of social and musical practices involved, I have conducted a research relying on the concept of scene established by Will Straw, which comprehends musical practices in a particular local context with the awareness of its articulations within the broader cultural and economic systems. By taking an ethnographic approach, the research has shown that the singer- songwriter scene in Zagreb is quite specific, and few essential conventions have arisen. One of them relates to performance places and spaces in which this (stylistically diverse) music, and then the scene itself, exists in its main form: a live performance. In this context, focus is also directed towards the role of the audience and their listening behaviour which is directly influenced by the performance place. This is also a prerequisite for unmediated connecting with musicians in the sense of interaction and intimacy, while at the same time authenticity functions in a way as an evaluation and aesthetics criteria. Within the scene-concept, whose theoretical imperative is recognition of a place as a component of the materiality of music, I discuss the significance that certain places may have in creating and performing specific types of music and vice versa, as well as the impact they have on maintaining intense social interactions, thus opening a way to understanding the material and physical contexts for performing music.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Etnologija i antropologija, Glazbena umjetnost

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