Flexibility and egalitarianism: musical insights from hunter-gatherers
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Creator (person)
Rudge, Alice
Abstract
Among egalitarian hunter-gatherer groups across the African continent, musical practices and egalitarianism are argued to be constitutive of one another. Southeast Asian hunter-gatherers also practice egalitarianism, however, their musical practices represent a seeming anomaly alongside those of African hunter-gatherer groups. Discussion of ‘hunter-gatherer musics’ that includes Southeast Asian perspectives has therefore been absent, even though cross-cultural, continent-spanning research with hunter-gatherers is common on topics such as politics, economics, and subsistence. Insights into egalitarianism, however, can be gained through attention to the diversity in hunter-gatherer musical practices. Discussion of Ju|'hoansi (Namibia) and Batek (Malaysia) musical practices demonstrates that egalitarianism can be understood in terms of its flexibility.
Funder
| Funder name | Awards |
Leverhulme Trust | RP2011-R-045 |
British Library | |
Cambridge University | |
Journal title
Ethnomusicology Forum
Publisher
Routledge
Place of publication
UK
ISSN
1741-1912
eISSN
1741-1920
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Additional information
This work was supported by the Leverhulme Trust [grant number RP2011-R-045]; The Evans Fund, Cambridge University; The British Library [Coleridge Research Fellowship]. The attached file is the author's accepted manuscript and is embargoed in accordance with the publisher's open access policy. It will become available for download automatically on the specified date.