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Cultural Diversity in the Urban Area: Explorations in Urban Ethnomusicology
Ursula Hemetek / Adelaida Reyes (eds.):
mit 2 CDs. Vienna 2007

Vienna and current research projects on the musical diversity in the capital of Austria were one stimulus for organising the symposium “Cultural Diversity in the Urban Area: Explorations in Urban Ethnomusicology” as well as one focus of the presentations. Studies from other parts of the world - Berlin, New York, Chicago, Kolkata - did foster a global perspective. Ethnomusicologists from Europe and the USA were invited to participate by giving presentations and joining the panel discussions.
Another stimulus for organizing the symposium is the focus on music and minorities at the Institute for Folk Music Research and Ethnomusicology since 1990. This focus also served as a starting point for activities on the international level, in an ICTM Study Group (founded in 1997). Adelaida Reyes, in her article, sees a clear connection between the concepts of research on minorities and those in urban ethnomusicology because “in a scholarly realm built on presumptions of cultural homogeneity, there was no room for minorities. These require a minimal pair—at least two groups of unequal power and most likely culturally distinct, both parts of a single social organism. Homogeneity does not admit of such disparate components……The conditions that spawn minorities—complexity, heterogeneity, and non-insularity—are ‘native’ not to simple societies but to cities and complex societies”.

There are contributions by:
Adelaida Reyes, Philip Bohlman/Sebastian Klotz/Lars Koch, Ursula Hemetek/Hande Saglam/Sofija Bajrektarevic, Gerda Lechleitner, Barbara Kostner/Paolo Vinati and
Regine Allgayer-Kaufmann et.al.
The book is accompanied by two CDs. CD 1 includes the audio examples from the contributions. CD 2 is a live recording of the evening concert “Unexpected Viennese musical Worlds” which did foreground some of the cultural diversity of Vienna’s musical life, by presenting very different music styles of the immigrant communities from Turkey and the former Yugoslavia

Ursula Hemetek/Adelaida Reyes (eds.)

Institute of Folk Music Research and Ethnomusicology, Vienna 2007, 160 pages, + 2 CDs.
Proceedings of the international symposium held in March 2006, organized by the UNESCO Working Group Vienna and the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna.

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