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

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

For next week:

• Read Saga of a Folksong Hunter, Hi Fi Stereo Review, May 1960, pp. 38-46 (optionally browse the issue and savor this long-gone era of musical listening!)
• Read Cultural Equity: On the Documentary Lomax the Songhunter, by Tom Sutpen, November 1, 2006
• Browse The Association for Cultural Equity and The Global Jukebox
• What’s Cantometrics all about and what do you think of it? Write 2-3 sentences (maximum!) and submit via eClass.

Inuit Music

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

Thought question: