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740-323 Topics in Ethnomusicology 2

Elective Music subject.

Availability: Offered in alternate years. Not available in 1996.

Credit points: 10.0

Coordinator: Dr Falk

Prerequisite: Music Cultures of the World: An Introduction and Permission of Dean

Contact: One 2-hour seminar per week for one semester.

Timetable: Second semester

Objectives:

By end of the semester, students will have a thorough knowledge of the major musical structures and their social contexts; be able to identify aurally and critically the musical genres studied, will have acquired familiarity with the main musical terminology of the areas; have understood a variety of styles and methodologies of ethnomusicological research and be able to evaluate critically writings in this field.

Content:

A comparitive study of the music of the Kaluli of Papua Niugini, the Suya of Brazil, the Temiar of Malaysia, and the Mbuti of central Africa, with particular focus on the writings of Steven Feld.

Assessment:

Two essays of up to 3,000 words each (50 per cent each), one of which will be presented as a class paper during the semester.

Prescribed texts:


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