Posted by Andrew Fine '15
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Posted by Andrew Fine '15 My interest in studying Falstaff’s concerts with an anthropological lens combines my passion for music with anthropology. Coming into college with over a five years of formal music experience, a love for listening, and a desire to perform, I knew that I wanted to be involved with Skidmore’s music scene. During my first few years at Skidmore, I attended over a dozen concerts and performed in three. Unfortunately with an increased workload my involvement in Skidmore’s music scene began to dwindle, but in the spring semester of my sophomore year, I was able to combine my interest in music with a project in an anthropology seminar on Ritual and Religion during the spring semester of 2013. I was interested in exploring ritual components in concerts, specifically at Falstaff’s, a popular campus venue at Skidmore for weekly music performances. During my research, I performed in two concerts, Battle of the Bands and an open mic night, observed after each set, and conducted interviews with four band members. In the fall semester 2014, my senior year, I expanded upon this research and focused more on interaction between the audience members and the musicians, who negotiate their identities within this cozy, small space. I discovered that intimate concert venues on liberal arts college campuses, like Skidmore’s, bring people together in a ritualized fashion where they can convene, interact, and leave refreshed with a new-found appreciation of the music they just heard and a sense of themselves as college students. This study exposes the expressiveness of music on a college campus among youth in their late teens and early 20s. Music acts as a gateway for social relationships among these students and a small intimate concert space helps facilitate this social process. The interaction between the audience members and performers creates a social experience that sticks with attendees even outside of the show. These memorable experiences at Falstaff’s concerts lead students to keep on going back to Falstaff’s, which continues the ritual of attendance and performance at this popular concert venue.
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