Using Multimedia to Expand the Audience of ... - Richard Repp

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performance, the moving picture shows what actually happened with the camera being
the witness. When meaning to represent reality, Titon recommends very little editing; this
allows for the presentation of a live cultural event to naturally unfold. Titon also includes
is an extensive response to his call, with more than twenty pages of bibliography,
discography, and filmography along with dissertations and theses related to the subject of
ethnographic film and video.
According to Serena Nanda, “…music [is] a language consisting of a number of
dialects…” (p. 310). Cultural Anthropology (1980) is a textbook at the university level.
The author presents basic, fundamental concepts, theories, methods, data, and references
regarding cultural anthropology with a variety of ethnographies. This text is a thorough
introduction and overview to the discipline. The black-and-white photographs, maps,
definitions, and suggested readings are essential elements. Cultural anthropologist Serena
Nanda expresses a traditional view of music as a separate part of society having an
adaptive role. She contends that research of music relates directly to research of culture:
Music, like the other arts, may be said to represent the ‘soul’ or cultural identity
of a people in a highly condensed and emotional form. An important aspect of
studying music, then, is in an attempt to understand the culture of a particular
people. And like other art forms, music plays an important indirect role in human
adaptation, primarily perhaps by contributing to the integration of society. (p.312)
This ethnologic comparison offers an intricate description of traditional and progressive
approaches to understanding a culture’s music. Nanda addresses a basic cultural
conception of music with a section referring to the emerging field of ethnomusicology.
The author quotes several forefathers of the discipline, Alan Merriam and Alan Lomax,