Introduction to World Music (Fall 2017)
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Lecture notes: Introduction to World Music (Fall 2017)
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
- Write (2-5 sentences): What do you think of Cantometrics? What works? What doesn't? Write 2-5 sentences (maximum!) and submit via eClass for September 13.
- Groups:
- Odd numbered: critique Cantometrics, and come up with a better way of doing the same thing; display via Google Drive in a few slides
- Even numbered: defend Cantometrics, and introduce refinements to make it even better; display via Google Drive in a few slides
Sep 13
Sep 20
Sep 27: Special guest, George Chungo Otiende
Oct 4
Oct 11
Oct 18: Midterm quiz
Oct 25
Nov 1
Nov 8
Nov 15: No class
Nov 22
Nov 29
Dec 6: Final quiz
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Potential topics (not yet assigned)
Circumpolar music: throat singing around the arctic
Reading assignment for next week: http://www.traditional-knowledge.ca/english/default.php
Thought question:
The Nile Project: Music along the world's longest river
Music, Culture, and Ecology in Bali
THREE WORLDS OF BALI https://ualberta.kanopystreaming.com/video/three-worlds-bali-1979
Activity: creating an interlocking pattern
Emic music theory
Zemp, Are’are https://ualberta.kanopystreaming.com/video/shaping-bamboo https://ualberta.kanopystreaming.com/video/areare-music prep: read his article make a flute out of PVC pipe
Music and Politics in Turkey: the Alevi
Alevi film https://ualberta.kanopystreaming.com/video/asiklar-those-who-are-love-1996 also see collection film
Music and Forced Migration
Bailey films - Amir 53:46 https://ualberta.kanopystreaming.com/video/amir-afghan-refugee-musicians-life-peshawar-pakistan-1985 http://tvmultiversity.blogspot.ca/2011/03/two-ethnographic-films-on-muslim-music.html http://search.alexanderstreet.com.login.ezproxy.library.ualberta.ca/view/work/bibliographic_entity%7Cvideo_work%7C764448 read his booklet
Giving Voice to Hope
Music and Protest
Mbira music: spirit of the people - ML 350 M35 1993 Music Media University of Alberta Rutherford Humanities & Social Science. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hF2Hstvrfc Preparation: afropop... http://www.afropop.org/6814/interview-thomas-turino/ http://www.afropop.org/7041/thomas-mapfumo-2-the-mugabe-years/ Read something about Mapfumo and Chimurenga, or article by Tom.
Romani (Gypsy) Music
Latcho Drom - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTuXveZStUo (downloaded) Read Silverman in Garland https://search-alexanderstreet-com.login.ezproxy.library.ualberta.ca/view/work/bibliographic_entity%7Creference_article%7C1000227827#page/301/mode/1/chapter/bibliographic_entity%7Creference_article%7C1000227827 and her review of the film itself http://www.jstor.org.login.ezproxy.library.ualberta.ca/stable/852550
Music and the Baptist Revival
Powerhouse for God http://search.alexanderstreet.com.login.ezproxy.library.ualberta.ca/view/work/bibliographic_entity%7Cvideo_work%7C765100 https://ualberta.kanopystreaming.com/video/powerhouse-god-1989 Reviews: http://www.jstor.org.login.ezproxy.library.ualberta.ca/action/doBasicSearch?Query=%22powerhouse+for+god%22 Read reviews and compare, note impact on multiple fields
Cross-cultural interactions
Genghis blues 1:27 - https://fod-infobase-com.login.ezproxy.library.ualberta.ca/p_ViewVideo.aspx?xtid=55429&tScript=0 NYT review Try to learn to produce sound