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“Classy” Trubači: Economies of “Othering” and the Balkan Brass Bands in Slovenia

Hofman, Ana (Department of fine arts, University of Kelaniya Sri Lanka, 2023)

This paper addresses Slovenian brass bands (Slovenski trubači) that flourished on the music scene after 2000 (Kovačič 2009; Hofman 2011; Šivic 2013). In analyzing the case study of selected brass bands, I explore how the ...
Sacred Ethnomusicology and Religious Music Practices in Uttarakhand Himalayas: Shaping Social Spaces of Identity, Belongingness, and Community Caste Roles

Rawat, Pankaj (Department of fine arts, University of Kelaniya Sri Lanka, 2023)

Ethnomusicology reflects different aspects of traditions, customs-rituals, aspirations, and values linked to various dimensions of socio-cultural life of humankind. Various scholars have classified folk songs from the ...
Music Keep-up Hopes to the Vulnerable

Hossain, Mohammad Jahangir (Department of fine arts, University of Kelaniya Sri Lanka, 2023)

On 25 March 1971, the Pakistani forces started massive genocide in Bangladesh (the-then East Pakistan). They demolished Shahid Minar, central monument of Bangladesh language movement and razed the traditional Ramana ...
From Diaspora to Intersectional Performative Mobilities: Music-making in Transcultural Balkan Romani Communities

Carol, Silverman (Department of fine arts, University of Kelaniya Sri Lanka, 2023)

The scholarship on migration has traversed profound shifts in the last fifty years from immigration studies in the 1970s, to diaspora studies 1980s, to transnational and transborder studies in the 1990s and early 2000s, ...
Minority vs. Majority: The Case of the Origin of a Romani Song

Marushiakova, Elena; Popov, Veselin (Department of fine arts, University of Kelaniya Sri Lanka, 2023)

The studies of Gypsy/Romani music have a long history of discussions, debates, and undoubted achievements. The stress is often on the distinctiveness of Romani music and its influences on the music of the majority. This ...
On the Possibility of Modernization of Khoomii in China: Taking Sainkho Namtchylak, Huun-Huur-Tu, and Hanggai as Examples

Zhang, Haozhe (Department of fine arts, University of Kelaniya Sri Lanka, 2023)

As a shared traditional art of ethnic minorities in Inner Mongolia, Khoomii is facing similar difficulties as other traditional music in China. Under the tide of modernization led by industrial information, Khoomii must ...
Enhancing Music Education in Muslim Schools in Sri Lanka: A Proposal for Action

Sanjeewa, K.M Manoj (Department of fine arts, University of Kelaniya Sri Lanka, 2023)

The marginalization of music education in Muslim schools in Sri Lanka has led to a negative impact on the students' creativity and critical thinking skills. This study highlights the need to increase awareness among parents ...
Whose Music is This? Arab Music as a Cultural Field of Negotiations in Israeli Cultural Arena

Marks, Essica (Department of Library and Information Science, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2023)

A significant part of ethnomusicological studies has dealt with the issue of musical cultures of minorities and their struggle to preserve their music within the societies where the majority has a different musical culture. ...
Hopa lide: An Ethnomusicological Documentary on (and with) Slovak Romani Musicians Marushiakova Elena

Nuska, Petr (Department of fine arts, University of Kelaniya Sri Lanka, 2023)

Who are Romani musicians? Members of a mysterious minority gatekeeping the carnival atmosphere, endowed with musical blood and a special talent to make people sing and dance? Or is that just one big myth? The documentary ...
Songs and Stories of Migration and Encounter in Unama’ki: Ukrainian Settler Communities, Intercultural Relationships, and Collaborative Research-Creation toward Reconciliation

Ostashewski, Marcia (Department of fine arts, University of Kelaniya Sri Lanka, 2023)

In 2022, members of the Holy Ghost Ukrainian Parish in Unama’ki (Cape Breton) engaged in a process of relationship-building with local Mi’kmaw people, toward Reconciliation. Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission ...
Home Coming: A Record of Soundscape and Livelihood of Spring Festival in a Kam Village

Cheng, Zhiyi Qiaoqiao (Department of fine arts, University of Kelaniya Sri Lanka, 2023)

I would like to give a presentation with talk and image on the diaspora of music and rituals originating from East-Africa across Indian Ocean. At the Spring festival (Chinese New Year)’s Eve, Fengyun finished the work ...
Music and Rituals of the Minority Communities of African Descent around the Indian Ocean

Linden, Neil van der (Department of fine arts, University of Kelaniya Sri Lanka, 2023)

I would like to give a presentation with talk and image on the diaspora of music and rituals originating from East-Africa across Indian Ocean. Around the Indian Ocean there were numerous nations and empires that absorbed ...
Music Acting as a Bridge between Ethnic Groups: An Activist Research on the Creation Project of “Crossing Ridges— Appreciating the Bunun Music Story”

Tseng, Yuh-Fen (Department of fine arts, University of Kelaniya Sri Lanka, 2023)

The Bunun is a Taiwan indigenous group residing extensively in various parts of the Central Mountain Range since ancient times. The Bunun people have been practicing a unique way of polyphonic singing; their genre called ...
Tribal Music of Sri Lanka: A Qualitative Research on the Singing Style of the Dambana Indigenous People

Tilakaratna, Dasith Asela; Weerakkody, Iranga Samindani (Department of fine arts, University of Kelaniya Sri Lanka, 2023)

Indigenous people (Ādivāsi) are usually an isolated community with a specific language, culture and way of life belonging to generations, endemic to each country or region. While indegenous communities are the inheritors ...
The Impact of Colonization, Urbanization, and Trans-Cultural Diffusion on Vedda People’s Music and Dance from the 17th to 21st Centuries in Sri Lanka

Guruge, Nadeeka (Department of fine arts, University of Kelaniya Sri Lanka, 2023)

Vedda people are considered the earliest inhabitants of the Island of Sri Lanka. Historical records from the 17th century disclose that the Vedda community has been subjected to rapid transformation during the past three ...
To Participate or to Present: Dance as Embodied Knowledge / Specialized Skill

Munsi, Urmimala Sarkar (Munsi Urmimala Sarkar (2023), To Participate or to Present: Dance as Embodied Knowledge / Specialized Skill, 12th Symposium of the ICTMD study group on music and minorities with a joint day with the study group on indigenous music and dance, Department of fine arts, University of Kelaniya Sri Lanka, 2023)

This paper aims to analyze the educational potential of community dances exhibited as ‘tribal’ dances in festivals such as Hornbill (Nagaland) and Sangai (Manipur). Such annual congregations are occasions for the exhibited ...
The Tradition and Contemporary Changes of the Kazakh Musical Instrument Dombra in the Altay Region

Shan, Zhang (Department of fine arts, University of Kelaniya Sri Lanka, 2023)

Dombra is a representative instrument of the Kazakhs, which is popular in China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, Kazakhstan, and parts of Mongolia. Based on six years of fieldwork, the author presents the traditional ...
Impact of Cultural Tourism on the Music of the Sri Lankan Aboriginal Community Known as the Veddas

Alawathukotuwa, Manoj (Department of fine arts, University of Kelaniya Sri Lanka, 2023)

Among all Sri Lankan minorities, the Veddas are widely considered the last indigenous tribal community in the country. Majority of them are living in the forest villages in Eastern and Sabaragamuwa provinces with minimum ...
Translocal Soundscapes and Strategic Positionings: Navigating a Sense of Belonging in Multiethnic Multireligious Malaysia

Beng, Tan Sooi (Department of fine arts, University of Kelaniya Sri Lanka, 2023)

To maintain power, the British employed the strategy of divide and rule in its colonies such as Malaya, India, Sri Lanka, Fiji, and many others. The tactic of privileging an ethnic group over the others created divisions ...
On the Stylistic Formation of the "Individual Voice" of Contemporary Chinese Composers: Rethinking of the Cultural Collision in Music Writing Based on Chen Qigang’s Stylistic Declaration

Yue, Ming (Department of fine arts, University of Kelaniya Sri Lanka, 2023)

Musical works by Eastern Asian composers often find themselves being labelled “exotic" and are habitually pigeonholed by Westerners into "the same group". Yet, the works by Modern Chinese composers (such as Tan Dun, Chen ...

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