Isha's blog

I came across this paper while researching the acculturation of South Asian communities in North America. While this paper by Professor Viranjini Munasinghe of Cornell University covers a different topic creolization, I feel there are similarities and an attempt is to learn from patterns assuming there are. While I understand some of what is presented, there is a lot I don't understand and at the same time, I find the topic intriguing.  This paper is a critique of a critique of original research by the author.  Munasinghe frames her views and peers' views as relatively close on the fundamentals and at the same time emphasized that her basis of the research is beyond superficial cultural blending and also covers the influence and impact due to political, economic, and power relations. (Note here that Creolization is the process through which creole languages and cultures emerge ( ref ) and a Culturalist is someone who focuses on the importance of culture in determining behavi...

  Computation in ethnomusicology   Ethnomusicology as we know it, is focused on music in its social-cultural contexts. In recent years, with the arrival of more digital technology, ethnomusicology has tried to improve its relationship with computation, approaching and innovating with computational research in the field of Digital Humanities.     Today ethnomusicologists are working on projects that rely on processing and understanding large amounts of digital data, producing new research and focusing on the use of computing for extracting musical information, such as Music Information Retrieval (MIR) or Computational Ethnomusicology (Egan, 2021, p. 479). The application of computing and technology in ethnomusicology keeps growing, bringing benefits for both research and fieldwork. One of its greatest examples is the Seán Ó Riada Project at University College Cork in Ireland. The Seán Ó Riada Project, named after the famous Irish composer, had the goal of arrang...