micromusics

[shamann]

so to be serious for a second its genres with a few artists only?

Not exactly. Slobin is an ethnomusicologist, so he studies essentially the social/cultural context of music. Micromusics are the musics of microcultures, which are pockets of culturally distinct social clusters within a greater centralized whole (give or take). Essentially he's looking at music of the "marginalized peoples" in Europe and the Americas. I would think Klezmer fits the bill, especially in the context of somewhere like Brooklyn. Another example might be Reggae/Dub/Ska in parts of England.

The study seems to look roughly at the musical equivalent of Chinatown or Little Italy, ethnocentric clusters within ethnically diverse macro cultures.

[xanda123]

so to be serious for a second its genres with a few artists only?

Not exactly. Slobin is an ethnomusicologist, so he studies essentially the social/cultural context of music. Micromusics are the musics of microcultures, which are pockets of culturally distinct social clusters within a greater centralized whole (give or take). Essentially he's looking at music of the "marginalized peoples" in Europe and the Americas. I would think Klezmer fits the bill, especially in the context of somewhere like Brooklyn. Another example might be Reggae/Dub/Ska in parts of England.

The study seems to look roughly at the musical equivalent of Chinatown or Little Italy, ethnocentric clusters within ethnically diverse macro cultures.

get in thats the crack but I couldn't be arsed to write exactly what it was, so how do you know about this stuff?

Yeah I spoke to a few of my tutors earlier and klezmers do fit the bill.

[shamann]

get in thats the crack but I couldn't be arsed to write exactly what it was, so how do you know about this stuff?

I don't really. I've read some ethnomusicology stuff in the past, and studied post-colonialism and marxist-style anthroplogy in uni. Just put 2 and 2 together from there. That, and I live in Little Italy North here in Toronto.