List of culturally-linked qualities of music

List of culturally-linked qualities of music

This is a list of aesthetic principles of music. It enumerates the various qualities by which music is judged aesthetically.

*blues: The "blues" is an African American musical genre and quality of music that reflects an emotionally genuine soul and expresses melancholy, loneliness and tragedy [cite web|title=Mariza lifts fado to higher level|work=Chicago Tribune|url=http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/chi-0608030290aug04,1,5455261.story?coll=chi-entertainment-utl|accessdate=October 13|accessyear=2006|author=Reich, Howard]
*conyach: "Conyach" is a musical quality that provocates the venting of emotions in listeners, associated with the music of Scottish Travelers [Ritchie, pg. 80] .
*dor: "Dor" is a "pleasant feeling of melancholy" especially evoked by the doina music [Broughton, Simon, "Taraf Traditions" in the "Rough Guide to World Music", pgs. 237 - 247]
*duende - "Duende" is a quality of Spanish music, especially flamenco, and is a complex emotional quality [Fairley, Jan, "A Wild, Savage Feeling in the "Rough Guide to World Music", pgs. 279 - 291]
*masala: "Masala" is a Mumbai term that translates as "spice" and refers to a spice mixture and to locally produced movies and music
*Sakit Hati: (lit. Indonesian for "sick liver") "Sakit Hati" is an Indonesian term, associated with the degung genre; it denotes a sense of wistful long and sadness [Bass, Colin, "No Risk - No Fun!", in the "Rough Guides to World Music", pg. 131 - 142] .
*mehna: "Mehna" is a term associated with Algeria raï music and is said to be similar to "duende" [Morgan, Andy, "Music Under Fire" in the "Rough Guide to World Music", pgs. 413 - 424]
*salsa: Closely associated with the "salsa" genre, the term "salsa" denotes a "wild" and "frenzied" musical experience, and was used as a vocal interjection to acknowledge the musical excitement of a performance. This usage can also express a sense of pan-Latin cultural identity, based around the "hotness" and "spiciness" of Latin culture. [Manuel, pg. 46; Morales, pp 56 - 59]
*saudade: "Saudade" is a Portuguese term, referring to an important element of fado; "saudade" is a mood, described as "a vague and constant desire for something that does not and probably can not exist, for something other than the present, a turning towards the future; not an active discontent or poignant sadness, but an indolent dreaming wistfulness", with roots in "Islamic fatalism, sailors' loneliness, and the unrequited love which was the perennial theme of troubadour poetry" [Manuel, "Popular Musics", pg. 119: Manuel is the source of the "Islamic fatalism... troubadour poetry", and he sources "a vague and constant... indolent dreaming wistfulness" to Aubrey Bell, in Gallop, "Portugal", 262]
*soul: "Soul" can refer to the soul music genre, but is also a quality of music or of performance which evokes an emotional state and is reflective of African American performance techniques [Singer and Friedman, cited in Manuel, pg. 46]
*swing: "Swing" can refer to the swing dance and swing jazz, a genre of popular dance music, and a quality of emotionally and culturally genuine music in the African American community [Singer and Friedman, cited in Manuel, pg. 46]
*tezeta: "Tezeta" is an Ethiopian musical term, evocative of melancholy, nostalgia and bittersweet longing, it was originally a traditional song, then a genre, a musical mode and marker of cultural identity [cite web|url=http://www.abc.net.au/rn/music/planet/stories/s604793.htm|title=Ethiopian Blues & Ballads|work=The Planet|accessdate=September 30|accessyear=2006]

References

*cite book
author = Broughton, Simon and Mark Ellingham (eds.)
edition = First edition
id = ISBN 1-85828-636-0
location = London
publisher = Rough Guides
title = Rough Guide to World Music
year = 2000
*cite book
author = Gallop, Rodney
title = Portugal: A Book of Folk-ways
Location = Cambridge
Publisher = Cambridge University Press
year = 1936, Aubrey Bell, in this work, is cited in Manuel, "Popular Musics", pg. 274
*cite book
author = Manuel, Peter
id = 0195053427
location = New York
publisher = Oxford University Press
title = Popular Musics of the Non-Western World
year = 1988
*cite book
author = Manuel, Peter
pages = 46-50
id= = ISBN 0195063341
year = 1988
publisher = Oxford University Press
location = New York
title = Popular Musics of the Non-Western World
*cite book
author = Morales, Ed
title = The Latin Beat
publisher = Da Capo Press
year = 2003
id = ISBN 0-306-81018-2
*cite book
author = Ritchie, Fiona
id = ISBN 0399530711
location = New York
publisher = Berkley Publishing Group
title = The NPR Curious Listener's Guide to Celtic Music
year = 2004

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