LISTEN
The Community Listening Project seeks to provide a communal listening experience for the city of Bloomington and beyond. The group meets twice a month, in my humble living quarters here in the heartbeat of America. Participants are asked to bring a piece of recorded music to share within a group setting. As a student of ethnomusicology, I am hoping to use this site as a way to learn more about the everyday listener of recorded music. Normally, ethnomusicologists look to the performer of music as a reference point of their research. By doing so, they hope to identify the meaning of music within a specific cultural setting. However, this project believes, along with Plato, that:
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