Subject
kinship, reciprocity, social reproduction, intellectual property, copyright, ethnomusicology, circulation, value, music, Melanesia, [SHS.ANTHRO-SE]Humanities and Social Sciences/Social Anthropology and ethnology, [SHS.MUSEO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Cultural heritage and museology, [SDE.BE]Environmental Sciences/Biodiversity and Ecology

Domains
Arts, Anthropologie, Culture, Sciences Sociales, Sciences humaines

Description

International audience This article examines the principles governing the ownership and circulation of music in Melanesia. It demonstrates how musical practice is part of what connects people in kin-based, local, and regional systems of reciprocity, recognition, and social reproduction. The article outlines the principles that underlie these systems and shows how they are of ten starkly at odds with assumptions about value and transaction in capitalist, commodity-focused economies. The contrast is epitomized in the differences between connections forged under Melanesian political economy and those in western intellectual property law, specifically copyright. The article makes the case for understanding the value of con temporary as well as traditional forms of music in this frame, focusing on relationality and obligation in both rural and urban contexts.

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Language
English (en-GB)

Creators
Leach, James, Stern, Monika

Contributors
Centre de Recherche et de Documentation sur l'Océanie (CREDO) ; École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Anna Morcom, Timothy D. Taylor

Sources
The Oxford Handbook of Economic Ethnomusicology, https://shs.hal.science/halshs-02902646, Anna Morcom; Timothy D. Taylor. The Oxford Handbook of Economic Ethnomusicology, Oxford University Press, 2020, 9780190859633. ⟨10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190859633.013.33⟩

Relation
info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190859633.013.33

Coverage
Melanesia

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