• Confronting Transcription via Indian Ocean's Kandisa

    Author(s):
    Dr. Karishmeh Felfeli-Crawford (see profile)
    Date:
    2021
    Subject(s):
    Musical analysis
    Item Type:
    Online publication
    Tag(s):
    Indian popular music, Kandisa, transcription, Music analysis
    Permanent URL:
    https://doi.org/10.17613/yrpt-bf86
    Abstract:
    Contemplating the epistemology of transcription (writing into Western musical notation, music that is composed aurally, or improvised) through my subjective experience as a non-Westerner studying “Western” fusion forms, I showed how certain knowledge systems are difficult for non-elite, persons of colour such as myself. Demonstrating the ways in which my training in Irish music academia has avoided sustained engagement with the methodology of transcription, I examined the music of fusion rock band Indian Ocean through the lens of (my) Western music analysis. Drawing from amateur performances of their 2000 hit song Kandisa, I demonstrated how concepts like “timbre”, “time” and “texture” are often used by Western or white ethnomusicologists, but not really understood by non-white practitioners. Ultimately, I sought to show why transcription ought to be taught, and why notation – despite the many problematic ideologies it sustains – can be a meaningful tool for (ethno)musicological and popular music research.
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