https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9sgvmxRq3Y
I was randomly recommended the video so I'm only 80% sure it actually is Galician music (I figured it out from the title). To me it sounds a lot like Slavic vocal music but the slides are so strange.
(I tried to post this on r/ethnomusicology but it's impossible to post there so I thought I'd post it here.)
Hi! I'm Will Magid, a producer, trumpeter and ethnomusicologist from Oakland. You might know me best as Balkan Bump 🎺🎺
I just released my debut album Osmanity featuring CloZee, Beats Antique, Poldoore, The Geek x Vrv and so many other friends. AMA about Osmanity or anything else!
Listen to Osmanity- smarturl.it/osmanity
Facebook- https://www.facebook.com/balkanbump/
Instagram- https://www.instagram.com/balkanbump/
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Spotify- https://open.spotify.com/artist/1TRyeXs6NXHSFqoXHR1w5e?si=Tf32_iNwSbaB8-DnGGDTSw
My name's Palmer Keen. I'm a guy who's obsessed with music in a corner of the world that most people never even think about, Indonesia. Indonesia is the fourth most populous country in the world and also perhaps the most musically diverse country on the planet, but so much of this music is unknown or unavailable outside the country. My mission is to share this stuff with the world.
For more than four years I've been traveling around Indonesia researching and recording dozens of Indonesian music styles and sharing it all for free on my website, Aural Archipelago. Without a formal background in ethnomusicology, I've figured it all out as I go: becoming fluent in Indonesian, learning how to do fieldwork, and making connections with musicians and communities across the thousands of islands in the archipelago. I travel with all my gear in a backpack, staying with musicians in their homes, going to remote villages that have never seen foreigners, and finding music that's never been heard outside of these islands. There have been lots of adventures along the way and so, so much great music.
A few notes to answer FAQ:
How do I make money?/Is this my job?: This isn't my job. For most of the time I've been doing this I was supporting myself and the project by teaching English full time. My description may have been a bit misleading, I travel often but it is not a constant thing. This is a passion project, but I don't make a living from this. I receive donations on my site occasionally, but these are forwarded to musicians. I now also do occasional work as a fixer and guide for others looking for music in Indonesia.
How did you get into this field?: To be clear, I have no academic background in ethnomusicology. I studied the traditional music called gamelan as an extracurricular in university, then decided to move to Indonesia to teach English and learn more about the gamelan that I'd fallen in love with. Since then everything I know about ethnomusicology I've figured out along the way. It's a fascinating field for anyone interested in music, but for those who want to make it their career (again, this is not my career, just a passion project!), it has the same pitfalls of any other job in academia.
Do you pay the musicians?/Aren't you exploiting them?: Yes, I always pay musicians a reasonable fee for performances that I commission. I'm not releasing whole albums of their music for free, just a track or two to get people inter
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Since 8th grade, I knew I wanted to major in music. In my first semester at college, I took a world music class and fell in love. It combined all of my favorite subjects in one beautiful mesh. I left that college, and I'm now in Community College...I have a lot of different questions about this being my career. If someone could help me understand better, it would be greatly appreciated.
I live in Virginia, and from my research, I don't think there are many colleges here that offer a PhD or Masters in Ethnomusicology. What should I do? Where should I start? What are things I should look at when seeing colleges? I really know nothing about where to start or how to start.
I've heard they are postcontact. Do Apache fiddles have any precontact string antecedents? Were they inspired by Spanish instruments? Their entire structure is so vastly different than European instruments—any ideas of when they were first created and by whom?
