Cultural Mapping and Musical Diversity - Britta Sweers

Cultural Mapping and Musical Diversity - Britta Sweers

Introduction

Cultural Mapping and Musical Diversity - Britta Sweers

Britta Sweers [+-]
University of Bern
Britta Sweers, Ph.D., is Professor of Cultural Anthropology of Music at the Institute of Musicology (since 2009) and Director of the Center for Global Studies (since 2015) at the University of Bern (Switzerland). She has been President of the European Seminar in Ethnomusicology (ESEM) since 2014. Major publications include Electric Folk: The Changing Face of English Traditional Music (2005), Polyphonie der Kulturen (CD/CD-ROM 2006/8), Grenzgänge – Gender, Race und Class als Wissenskategorien in der Musikwissenschaft (ed.; w. Cornelia Bartsch, 2015). She is co-editor of the European Journal of Musicology and of the Equinox book series Transcultural Music Studies.

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The concept of “Cultural Mapping” has been regarded as a central methodological resources for safeguarding cultural diversity within the UNESCO context. Before addressing the specific UNESCO approach and ethnomusicological perspectives of mapping further detail, the introduction to Part I provides a brief overview of the main features of mapping in general. In contrast to conventional maps, the specific documentation of the Cultural Mapping approach not only comprises landscape features, but also a variety of other sociocultural and –political elements. As is evident here, Cultural Mapping has become a central tool of urban planning projects, but also of other applied approaches. While repeatedly described as a method or tool kit in many handbooks that emerged since the mid-1990s, most approaches remain nevertheless relatively vague, rarely ever reflecting on the actual set of methodologies being used. As is argued here and is likewise illustrated by the articles of Part I, ethnomusicology could make a strong contribution here.

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Sweers, Britta. Introduction. Cultural Mapping and Musical Diversity. Equinox eBooks Publishing, United Kingdom. p. 13-18 Feb 2020. ISBN 9781781797594. https://www.equinoxpub.com/home/view-chapter/?id=35822. Date accessed: 13 Dec 2024 doi: 10.1558/equinox.35822. Feb 2020

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