From culture to nature and back. A personal journey through the soundscapes of Colombia
- Submitting institution
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Birmingham City University
- Unit of assessment
- 33 - Music, Drama, Dance, Performing Arts, Film and Screen Studies
- Output identifier
- 33Z_OP_D2088
- Type
- D - Journal article
- DOI
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- Title of journal
- Journal of Sonic Studies
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- First page
- 1
- Volume
- 19
- Issue
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- ISSN
- 2212-6252
- Open access status
- Compliant
- Month of publication
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- Year of publication
- 2020
- URL
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https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/677981/677982
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- Yes
- Additional information
- Lamberto Coccioli’s article ‘From Culture to Nature and Back: A Personal Journey Through the Soundscapes of Colombia’ was written for the _Journal of Sonic Studies’_ monographic issue on the Sounds of Latin America, published via the Research Catalogue platform. Although it discusses his compositions, the research presented here resides not in that practice but in Coccioli’s auto-ethnographical examination at a critical distance of the methodological outcomes, issues and potential arising from his journey to Colombia. Coccioli writes:
“The purpose of the article was twofold: to celebrate the astonishing richness and diversity of natural and human soundscapes from remote regions of Colombia as I experienced them in a series of journeys in the early 1990s, and to reconstruct critically the process through which those soundscapes influenced my own creative work as a composer over a period of many years.
Reflecting on a personal and intellectual journey of discovery that plays out on many levels – musical, aesthetic, anthropological, technological – brings to the fore important questions on music composition as the locus of cultural reappropriation and reinterpretation. How far can the belief system of a distant culture travel before it loses its meaning? Writing from a post-colonial perspective, I ask myself if and how, in my own compositions, the use and repurposing of ideas, sounds and songs from marginalised indigenous communities can be justified. In trying to give an answer to these questions through the frame of critical musicology and the lens of my own experience, I keep unravelling layer upon layer of complexity, in a fascinating game of mirrors where my own identity as a ‘Western’ composer starts crumbling away.”
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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