Introduction to World Music (Fall 2017)

Short URL for this page: http://bit.ly/iwm17
Short URL for accompanying eClass site: http://bit.ly/iwm17ec

Sep 6: Hearing music of the world: World Folksong, Alan Lomax, and Cantometrics

In class:

• Introduction: "Music", "World Music"
• Some musical warmups
• Documentary: Lomax the Songhunter
• Syllabus and course mechanics

For the coming week (due Sep 13):

• Read 15 pages:
  • Saga of a Folksong Hunter, Hi Fi Stereo Review, May 1960, pp. 38-46 [about 6 pages not counting the many photos!] (& optionally browse the entire issue and savor this long-gone era of musical listening!)
  • Cultural Equity: On the Documentary Lomax the Songhunter, by Tom Sutpen, November 1, 2006 [webpage, approximately 5 pages]
  • Cantometrics, by Jeff Todd Titon, The Journal of American Folklore, Vol. 95, No. 377 (Jul. - Sep., 1982), pp. 370-374 [4 pages]
• Browse
  • The Association for Cultural Equity
  • The Global Jukebox
• Write: What do you think of Cantometrics? What works? What doesn't? Write 2-5 sentences (maximum!) and submit via eClass for September 13.

Dec 6: Final quiz

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Topics

Circumpolar music: throat singing of the Inuit and Ainu

Reading assignment for next week: http://www.traditional-knowledge.ca/english/default.php

Thought question: