Neither East nor West, in between but not a bridge: A riddle for a new discipline, the ethnogeomusicology
Neither East nor West, in between but not a bridge: A riddle for a new discipline, the ethnogeomusicology

Summary/Abstract: The essence of Eurasia is being in between East and West, North and South. Georgia as a Eurasian country undeniably belongs neither to West nor to East and does not bridge them being geographically flanked by these continents. The self-contained miniature world of part-singing in Georgia is considered as a model for the study of Eurasian polyphony, i.e., an ethnogeomusical unity whose characteristics supposedly occur in different ethnogeographical areas. The author avoids the paradigm of origin and concentrates on an examination of spatial patterns in the distribution of part-singing that constitutes the most puzzling scholarly question.

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