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Title: | Spirtu ghannej : una revision sobre forma, ritual, genero y modernidad en el canto popular Maltes |
Authors: | Babiloni, Marcos Sapro |
Keywords: | Ghana (Music) Music -- Malta -- History and criticism Folk music -- Malta |
Issue Date: | 2011 |
Citation: | Babiloni, M.S. (2011). Spirtu ghannej : una revision sobre forma, ritual, genero y modernidad en el canto popular Maltes. Quadrivium, 2, 48-56. |
Abstract: | Expression through singing is a deeply rooted attribute in the popular culture of Malta. The range of musical manifestations of the archipelago, however, shows itself limited to a tight group of forms and styles, the practice of which is grouped under the particular denomination of ghana. Travel through the scarce known data about its history acts as a significant precedent to the study of its characteristics, where it stands out not only the necessary musical attributes, but also the values that transmit a meaning to the reason of its social function. Through this intervention, Maltese singing creates important identities, both hierarchical and gender national, emphasized at the same time by the adoption of a ritual in interpretation. Finally, it will be necessary to put an emphasis on the transformation that this popular practice has gone through in its coexistence with a parallel process of political and cultural modernization in the country. A process which has even affected the own perspective that the ghannej has of himself and has inevitably altered with it the components of his interpretation. |
URI: | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar//handle/123456789/20890 |
ISSN: | 1989-8851 |
Appears in Collections: | Melitensia Works - ERCMusLM |
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