Lecture notes Sep 6: Introduction to World Music (Fall 2017)

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

Prelude: name that tune!

Course goals:

• understand the musical world
• understand the world musically
• understand music as both product and shaper of its environment
• broaden musical horizons
• learn how to think critically about music culture
• intro to ethnomusicology, study of music in broadest context (of : related arts, spatial temporal, disciplinary)

Course strategies: emphasis on...

• Films
• Collaborative work
• Participation in class
• Mixing ethnographic, critical, and creative approaches

Course Mechanics:

• syllabus
• daily attendance
• please make name cards, and say your name when you speak in class
• use the course webpage for assignments and notes (http://bit.ly/iwm17)
• use eclass to submit assignments, always on the day they are due (http://bit.ly/iwm17ec)
• you are divided in groups of 4-5; each group is assigned a Google Drive folder in which to share materials.

Structure of a three hour session:

• Prelude: name that tune!
• Musical stretching
• Group presentations: 3-5 minutes each, on previous week's film. Group should come to the front of the classroom to present. Everyone should be there, and everyone should participate. Presentations can be verbal, musical, or visual - feel free to use media (embed in Google Slides in your Google folder)
• Introduction to the film
• Film
• Brief discussion and assigning group topics

Today's topics:

• Defining terms: "Music", "World Music", "Ethnomusicology

• Documentary: Lomax the Songhunter