Introduction: Looking for the "origins" of music

Julien Jugand (1) , Sibylle Emerit , Christine Guillebaud (2, 3, 1)

1 CREM - Centre de recherche en ethnomusicologie
2 LESC - Laboratoire d'ethnologie et de sociologie comparative
3 UPN - Université Paris Nanterre

This article offers an introduction to the edited book “Singing the Past. Music and the Politics of Memory (20th-21st centuries)”. It focuses on three main theoretical issues entitled : 1. The origins of music through the scientist’s lens. 2. Music as memory. 3. Connecting to the past through musical media

Mots clés: Music; Ethnomusicology; History; Anthropology; Music archeology

Mots clés: musique; ethnomusicologie; histoire; anthropologie; archéologie musicale

Domaines: Anthropologie sociale et ethnologie; Sciences de l'Homme et Société; Archéologie et Préhistoire; Histoire, Philosophie et Sociologie des sciences; Musique, musicologie et arts de la scène

Julien Jugand, Sibylle Emerit, Christine Guillebaud. Introduction: Looking for the "origins" of music. Guillebaud Christine; Emerit Sibylle; Jugand Julien. Singing the Past. Music and the Politics of Memory (20th-21st centuries), Presses de l'Université Paris Nanterre. Coll. Les Passés dans le Présent, pp.11-27, 2023. ⟨halshs-03508803⟩