Comments on: Guest Blogger: Nilanjana Bhattacharjya http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2009/05/20/guest_blogger_n_2/ All that flavorful brownness in one savory packet Sat, 30 Nov 2013 11:11:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Sexo Perfeito]expo sexo 2008[/url]: anale dk http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2009/05/20/guest_blogger_n_2/comment-page-1/#comment-262680 Sexo Perfeito]expo sexo 2008[/url]: anale dk Tue, 17 Nov 2009 12:46:18 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=5780#comment-262680 <p>yes.. bookmarked thoughts..</p> yes.. bookmarked thoughts..

]]> By: Nilanjana http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2009/05/20/guest_blogger_n_2/comment-page-1/#comment-240014 Nilanjana Thu, 21 May 2009 16:13:24 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=5780#comment-240014 <p>Hi again GurMando, your understanding isn't very laymanish at all, but it describes only one type of work that some of <a href="http://webdb.iu.edu/sem/scripts/aboutus/aboutethnomusicology/ethnomusicology.cfm">us</a> do. And given that I focus on popular music, what I do is fairly different. I personally do things like listen to music, go to concerts, talk to musicians, watch them in the studio and in rehearsal, talk to fans, read the paper, read my colleagues' work, watch <a href="http://asianmusic.skidmore.edu/contindex/v40n1.htm">lots of bad movies</a>, and on a good day, write, but I also know a music theorist who's been recording renditions of Knock Knock jokes to understand how different people understand pitch-- and the interval of a major 3rd. A broader definition that works for most of us is that we look at music and culture. And there's room for almost everybody!</p> Hi again GurMando, your understanding isn’t very laymanish at all, but it describes only one type of work that some of us do. And given that I focus on popular music, what I do is fairly different. I personally do things like listen to music, go to concerts, talk to musicians, watch them in the studio and in rehearsal, talk to fans, read the paper, read my colleagues’ work, watch lots of bad movies, and on a good day, write, but I also know a music theorist who’s been recording renditions of Knock Knock jokes to understand how different people understand pitch– and the interval of a major 3rd. A broader definition that works for most of us is that we look at music and culture. And there’s room for almost everybody!

]]> By: GurMando http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2009/05/20/guest_blogger_n_2/comment-page-1/#comment-239988 GurMando Thu, 21 May 2009 08:52:58 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=5780#comment-239988 <p>Nilanjana - Welcome !!</p> <p>I heard a great NPR piece about Asian children being better at music specifically because their languages were 'tonal' in nature (ie, Cantonese and Mandarin using small differences in pitch and tone for words which may look the same on paper but mean different things depending on how they're pronounced). So, when they tested musically gifted American kids against musically gifted Asian kids on identifying pitches and tones, the Asians kids blew away the numbers.</p> <p>Found this very interesting and your job title reminded me of this - is this the type of stuff you would be involved in or does that sound very layman-ish ?</p> Nilanjana – Welcome !!

I heard a great NPR piece about Asian children being better at music specifically because their languages were ‘tonal’ in nature (ie, Cantonese and Mandarin using small differences in pitch and tone for words which may look the same on paper but mean different things depending on how they’re pronounced). So, when they tested musically gifted American kids against musically gifted Asian kids on identifying pitches and tones, the Asians kids blew away the numbers.

Found this very interesting and your job title reminded me of this – is this the type of stuff you would be involved in or does that sound very layman-ish ?

]]> By: Nilanjana http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2009/05/20/guest_blogger_n_2/comment-page-1/#comment-239984 Nilanjana Thu, 21 May 2009 08:32:36 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=5780#comment-239984 <p>phillygrrl and Kabir, thanks for the warm welcome! Detroit Indian (the one and only?), I have a good story for you, but let me figure out how to tell it in a way that doesn't get me in further trouble.</p> phillygrrl and Kabir, thanks for the warm welcome! Detroit Indian (the one and only?), I have a good story for you, but let me figure out how to tell it in a way that doesn’t get me in further trouble.

]]> By: Detroit Indian http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2009/05/20/guest_blogger_n_2/comment-page-1/#comment-239968 Detroit Indian Thu, 21 May 2009 03:19:47 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=5780#comment-239968 <p>Well Nilanjana, maybe you can start with a blog which describes your parent's reaction to your choosing to be an ethnomusicologist :)</p> Well Nilanjana, maybe you can start with a blog which describes your parent’s reaction to your choosing to be an ethnomusicologist :)

]]> By: Kabir http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2009/05/20/guest_blogger_n_2/comment-page-1/#comment-239960 Kabir Wed, 20 May 2009 23:42:10 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=5780#comment-239960 <p>Welcome, Nilanjana. Great to have an ethnomusicologist on Sepia:)</p> Welcome, Nilanjana. Great to have an ethnomusicologist on Sepia:)

]]> By: phillygrrl http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2009/05/20/guest_blogger_n_2/comment-page-1/#comment-239958 phillygrrl Wed, 20 May 2009 23:38:08 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=5780#comment-239958 <p>Ethnomusicologist? That's a great word. Gotta be a great career.</p> Ethnomusicologist? That’s a great word. Gotta be a great career.

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