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Theoretical and practical aspects of cross-cultural corpus studies: Two case studies from Mali

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Jacoby,  Nori       
Research Group Computational Auditory Perception, Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Max Planck Society;

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Polak,  Rainer       
Department of Music, Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Max Planck Society;

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London, J., Jacoby, N., & Polak, R. (2022). Theoretical and practical aspects of cross-cultural corpus studies: Two case studies from Mali. In D. Shanahan, J. A. Burgoyne, & I. Quinn (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of music and corpus studies. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190945442.013.32.


Cite as: https://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-000B-B556-8
Abstract
Corpus-based research has historically consisted primarily of data that can best be represented in Western musical notation, often with an American/Eurocentric bias. In this
chapter, the authors present a corpus of live performances of jembe-drum ensemble music from Mali and two analytical studies that make use of it. These studies help us to understand and appreciate a musical style of considerable rhythmic subtlety and complexity,
and, because they shed additional light on issues of rhythm perception and performance,
they also increase the cultural diversity of empirical musicological research. The authors’
findings demonstrate the usefulness of a cross-cultural perspective for both general, scientifically informed theories of rhythm and meter and for ethnomusicologically informed
theories of rhythm and meter in African (sub-Saharan) music-cultural contexts.