La virtuosité comme arme de guerre psychologique
After having encountered violent conflicts, steelband were shaped in an intense rivalry in which virtuosity had become the key weapon. Within a system of national competitions, bands now compete in speed, loudness or musical difficulties. At a more local level, the sections—sets of identical instrum...
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| Language: | fra |
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Laboratoire d'Ethnologie et de Sociologie Comparative
2011-06-01
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| Series: | Ateliers d'Anthropologie |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/ateliers/8798 |
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| Summary: | After having encountered violent conflicts, steelband were shaped in an intense rivalry in which virtuosity had become the key weapon. Within a system of national competitions, bands now compete in speed, loudness or musical difficulties. At a more local level, the sections—sets of identical instruments—informally compete in games focusing on the difficulty of performance. For individuals, finally, virtuosity is particularly the rapid memorization of the repertoire. At any level of sociability, we observe that virtuosity is expressed primarily in innovations and quantifiable records (number of notes to play, number of decibels, of musicians, of winning competitions ...) which allows to establish a hierarchy and a ranking of rivals conducive to harmony and to the renewal of the social order. |
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| ISSN: | 2117-3869 |