ETHNICITY, NATIONAL IDENTITY, AND TRANSCULTURAL AWARENESS
Keywords:
identity strategies, regional traditions, era of musical globalization, intercultural encounters, de-centralization of musical forms and performance techniques, de-identificationAbstract
Today regional traditions interrelate with the plurality and diversity of musical languages and tastes as social constructs, with confronting trends of intercultural music-making, and with techniques of transcultural improvisation. Since the beginning of the 19th century, aspects and perspectives of ethnicity, related to a shared or supposedly shared cultural heritage of individual groups, have always been confronted and intervened with farther reaching national ideologies and strategies. Nowadays, in the era of globalization, of migration, tourism, event-culture and world festivals, musical identities became even more and more multi-referential, characterized by polyglot and fluid constructions that are decisively structured through moments of ambivalence between ethnic, national, global and cross-cultural discourses. The construction of local, regional or national identities is expressed by individual musical groups through highly differentiated narrative performances, but more and more also in relation to the audiences they are performing for, may it be in the own local or national environment, abroad on a tour, on stage of a world music festival or in mass media and internet. The regional reference by which music is symbolically expressed is nowadays mostly disconnected from its traditional older identity-concepts and turns more and more into a virtual and trans-regional discourse in order to balance ideological, aesthetic and economical power structures.
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