Introduction to World Music (Fall 2017)

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Lecture notes: Introduction to World Music (Fall 2017)

COURSE CALENDAR

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 (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 27: Special guest, George Chungo Otiende

http://www.chungaotiende.com/

Dec 6: Final quiz

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Potential topics (not yet assigned)

Circumpolar music: throat singing around the arctic

Unusual regions.

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

Transnationalism and ecology.

http://nileproject.org/

https://www.internationalrivers.org/blogs/264/the-nile-project-uses-music-to-transcend-borders

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

Music cognition, perception, classification.

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, Religion, and Politics in Turkey: the Alevi

Religion and Politics

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