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Professor Laura Leante's Outputs (22)

Role, status and hierarchy in the performance of North Indian classical music (2015)
Journal Article
Clayton, M., & Leante, L. (2015). Role, status and hierarchy in the performance of North Indian classical music. Ethnomusicology Forum, 24(3), 414-442. https://doi.org/10.1080/17411912.2015.1091272

In this article we describe and interpret the interactions that take place between participants in performances of North Indian classical music. Since this music is shaped largely in the moment of performance, its success depends on felicitous intera... Read More about Role, status and hierarchy in the performance of North Indian classical music.

Pulse and Entrainment to Non-Isochronous Auditory Stimuli: The case of North Indian Alap (2015)
Journal Article
Will, U., Clayton, M., Wertheim, I., Leante, L., & Berg, E. (2015). Pulse and Entrainment to Non-Isochronous Auditory Stimuli: The case of North Indian Alap. PLoS ONE, 10(4), Article e0123247. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0123247

Pulse is often understood as a feature of a (quasi-) isochronous event sequence that is picked up by an entrained subject. However, entrainment does not only occur between quasi-periodic rhythms. This paper demonstrates the expression of pulse by sub... Read More about Pulse and Entrainment to Non-Isochronous Auditory Stimuli: The case of North Indian Alap.

Embodiment in Music Performance (2013)
Book Chapter
Clayton, M., & Leante, L. (2013). Embodiment in Music Performance. In M. Clayton, B. Dueck, & L. Leante (Eds.), Experience and meaning in music performance (188-207). Oxford University Press

Imagery, melody and gesture in cross-cultural perspective (2011)
Book Chapter
Fatone, G. A., Clayton, M., Leante, L., & Rahaim, M. (2011). Imagery, melody and gesture in cross-cultural perspective. In A. Gritten, & E. King (Eds.), New perspectives on music and gesture (203-220). Ashgate Publishing

Musical action is also physical action. This is obvious in cases such as moving the arm to direct a bow across a cello string, turning the hand to control the vibrations of a drumhead or inclining the cartilages of the larynx to raise the pitch of a... Read More about Imagery, melody and gesture in cross-cultural perspective.

Inter-group Entrainment in Afro-Brazilian Congado Ritual (2011)
Journal Article
Lucas, G., Clayton, M., & Leante, L. (2011). Inter-group Entrainment in Afro-Brazilian Congado Ritual. Empirical Musicology Review, 6(2), 75-102

This paper investigates the phenomenon of entrainment between independent groups of musicians in the context of Afro-Brazilian Congado performance. Based on audiovisual recordings made during a festival in May 2006, we present analyses of four differ... Read More about Inter-group Entrainment in Afro-Brazilian Congado Ritual.

Gesture in Performance (2010)
Book Chapter
Dahl, S., Bevilacqua, F., Bresin, R., Clayton, M., Leante, L., Poggi, I., & Rasamimanana, N. (2010). Gesture in Performance. In R. I. Godøy, & M. Leman (Eds.), Musical Gestures (36-68). Routledge

Contesti e pratiche di performance del bhangra in Punjab e nella diaspora (2010)
Journal Article
Leante, L. (2010). Contesti e pratiche di performance del bhangra in Punjab e nella diaspora

Il bhangra sembra avere avuto origine nella regione del Punjab che corrisponde all’attuale area nord-orientale del Pakistan, dove una danza rurale con questo nome era diffusa nella prima metà del ventesimo secolo. Tuttavia, oggi il termine “bhangra”... Read More about Contesti e pratiche di performance del bhangra in Punjab e nella diaspora.

The Lotus and the King: Imagery, Gesture and Meaning in a Hindustani Rāg (2009)
Journal Article
Leante, L. (2009). The Lotus and the King: Imagery, Gesture and Meaning in a Hindustani Rāg. Ethnomusicology Forum, 18(2), 185-206. https://doi.org/10.1080/17411910903141874

This article brings together investigation of gesture and imagery in the study of North Indian classical music, focusing on a particular rāg—Śrī rāg—in detail. The research, based on extensive ethnography and analysis of audiovisual recordings, revea... Read More about The Lotus and the King: Imagery, Gesture and Meaning in a Hindustani Rāg.

Urban Myth: bhangra and the dhol craze in the UK (2009)
Book Chapter
Leante, L. (2009). Urban Myth: bhangra and the dhol craze in the UK. In B. Clausen, U. Hemetek, & E. Saether (Eds.), Music in motion : diversity and dialogue in Europe (191-207). Transcript Verlag

Bhangra is believed to have originated in Western Punjab (in today’s Pakistan) as a rural male dance performed to the rhythm of the dhol, a large double-headed barrel drum, to celebrate the spring harvest. Soon after Indian Partition in 1947 and foll... Read More about Urban Myth: bhangra and the dhol craze in the UK.