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Cultural specificities in Carnatic and Hindustani music: Commentary on the Saraga Open Dataset

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Pearson,  Lara
Department of Music, Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Max Planck Society;

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Pearson, L. (2021). Cultural specificities in Carnatic and Hindustani music: Commentary on the Saraga Open Dataset. Empirical Musicology Review, 16(1), 166-171. doi:10.18061/emr.v16i1.7974.


Cite as: https://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0009-B373-B
Abstract
This commentary explores features of the "Saraga" article and open dataset, discussing some of the issues arising. I argue that the CompMusic project and this resulting dataset are impressive for their sensitivity to cultural specificities of the Hindustani and Carnatic musical styles; for example, the dataset includes manual annotations based on music theoretical concepts from within the styles, rather than imposing conceptual categories from outside. However, I propose there are aspects of the dataset's manual annotations that require clarification in order for them to be used as ground truths by other researchers. In addition, I raise questions regarding the representativeness of the dataset – an issue that has ethical implications.