Music, Money and Value: Ethnomusicological perspectives on transmission, complexity, maintenance and commodification Event as iCalendar
(Anthropology, School of Social Sciences)
10 April 2019
5:30pm
Venue: Lecture theatre Eng1401 (401-401), Faculty of Engineering
Location: 20 Symonds Street, Auckland
Professor Greg Booth | Inaugural lecture
Most of us expect to pay for the privilege of listening to music, whether live or recorded. Indeed, many of us would classify unpaid musical performance as somehow less valuable than paid performance; but whether or not the end user/listener pays for it, musical performance comes at a cost and has value that is not always reflected in its commodity price. In this lecture, using a range of examples from my research into music in India, I examine a range of relationships between music — performed, taught, recorded — and the kinds of cultural and financial investments that make it possible, that shape it and that imperil it.
