Applying the Concept of Musical Social Entrainment in Researching Tambura Practice in Serbia Cover Image

Примена концепта музичког друштвеног усклађивања у истраживању тамбурашке праксе у Србији
Applying the Concept of Musical Social Entrainment in Researching Tambura Practice in Serbia

Author(s): Julijana Baštić
Subject(s): Customs / Folklore, Music, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, Sociology of Art
Published by: Muzikološki institut SANU
Keywords: entrainment in ethnomusicology; musical social entrainment; intra/interindividual and intra/inter-group entrainment; tambura practice; tamburitza ensemble „The Hearth of Bačka”;

Summary/Abstract: Entrainment in music refers to the interaction and synchronization of two or more rhythmic processes. The first part of this paper presents entrainment theory in ethnomusicology as a methodology for interdisciplinary research into musical, social, and cultural phenomena. The second part of the paper concerns the application of the concept of musical social entrainment in the example of tambura practice. Because tambura players display mutual entrainment through various behaviors during playing and social interaction, applying entrainment theory entails an analytical segmentation of the social and musical spheres in a specific musical performance.

  • Issue Year: 1/2022
  • Issue No: 32
  • Page Range: 245-268
  • Page Count: 24
  • Language: Serbian