740-388 Music in Multicultural Australia

On completion of this subject students should have an understanding of theories of culture contact and musical change and their application to a variety of forms of migrant music-making in Australia; have a critical grasp of the current terminologies and government policies associated with multiculturalism and music in Australia as a result of changing immigration policy; have a working knowledge of the ethnomusicological literature concerning the issues of urbanisation, Westernisation, modernisation, appropriation, commercialisation and institutionalisation as they apply to the music of migrants in Australia; have an understanding of the mechanisms for the dissemination and the modes of reception of migrant music in Australia.

A diary of weekly readings and assigned tasks (40%); a class presentation (20%); an essay of 1500 words (40%).