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* Welcome to M4GHD! | * Welcome to M4GHD! | ||
* | * Course premise: Music is a Social Technology...it ''does'' something! (Brainstorm: what can music do?) | ||
* In this class we'll learn about music's social power by reading & discussing & writing....but also by experiencing and doing. | |||
* In this class we'll learn about music's social power by reading & discussing & writing....but also by experiencing and doing. | |||
** Tuesdays: academic didactic/discursive/critical learning (propositional knowledge) | ** Tuesdays: academic didactic/discursive/critical learning (propositional knowledge) | ||
** Thursdays: experiential learning (procedural knowledge) | ** Thursdays: experiential learning (procedural knowledge): musicking (EVERYONE can communicate through music) | ||
** Outside of class: homework, and Community Service Learning projects in the community. | ** Outside of class: homework, and Community Service Learning projects in the community. | ||
* Self-introductions | |||
* A few definitions for this class: | |||
** "Music": extended to "expressive performance" and other media) | |||
** "Ethnomusicology": extended in sound, media, context, disciplinary lens | |||
** "Applied ethnomusicology": operating outside the usual boundaries of the academy (research and teaching) | |||
** "Music for Global Human Development" (M4GHD): an approach to applied ethnomusicology that entails participatory action research projects in music & development (humanized in aims and methods), centered on global collaborations between academics, NGOs, government organizations, musicians, and others, applying ethnomusicology to real-world social issues, focusing on peoples who have been marginalized--socially, politically, economically--by colonialism and its aftermath, whether in the "developing" world or not, and linking them to others across the globe. | |||
=== M4GHD and Rosie === | === M4GHD and Rosie === | ||
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** See [http://buffalonews.com/2015/05/04/david-guettas-hey-mama-relies-on-help-from-his-friends/ this article by Jeff Miers]. | ** See [http://buffalonews.com/2015/05/04/david-guettas-hey-mama-relies-on-help-from-his-friends/ this article by Jeff Miers]. | ||
=== | === More about the course... === | ||
* This class is itself a M4GHD project! | * This class is itself a M4GHD project! | ||
* In this class you will create a mini M4GHD project as a response to needs and constraints of your CSL placement. | * In this class you will create a mini M4GHD project as a response to needs and constraints of your CSL placement. |
Revision as of 23:06, 6 January 2020
short link to this course schedule page: http://bit.ly/m4ghd20s
Week 1: 07-Sep & 09-Sep: Introduction
Tues
- Welcome to M4GHD!
- Course premise: Music is a Social Technology...it does something! (Brainstorm: what can music do?)
- In this class we'll learn about music's social power by reading & discussing & writing....but also by experiencing and doing.
- Tuesdays: academic didactic/discursive/critical learning (propositional knowledge)
- Thursdays: experiential learning (procedural knowledge): musicking (EVERYONE can communicate through music)
- Outside of class: homework, and Community Service Learning projects in the community.
- Self-introductions
- A few definitions for this class:
- "Music": extended to "expressive performance" and other media)
- "Ethnomusicology": extended in sound, media, context, disciplinary lens
- "Applied ethnomusicology": operating outside the usual boundaries of the academy (research and teaching)
- "Music for Global Human Development" (M4GHD): an approach to applied ethnomusicology that entails participatory action research projects in music & development (humanized in aims and methods), centered on global collaborations between academics, NGOs, government organizations, musicians, and others, applying ethnomusicology to real-world social issues, focusing on peoples who have been marginalized--socially, politically, economically--by colonialism and its aftermath, whether in the "developing" world or not, and linking them to others across the globe.
M4GHD and Rosie
- M4GHD: deploying music as a social technology, for connection. How does that work? Understanding through experience...
- Let's jump right in with the experiential: Connecting through song: performing Rosie.
- What is the social power of music? What does music do for people? (for you, for inmates...) How does it establish connection? What is the source of this power? Make a list of musical features. How does music adapt?
- Divide into subgroups and create your own version of Rosie.
- This is roots music - it comes from the people, from below, without commercial intent. A prison work song, recorded by Alan Lomax in the 1940s.
- What about the system? How is Rosie repurposed within the music economy?
- Rosie via David Guetta ft. Nicki Minaj ("Hey mama") - appropriation by the music system?
- What do you hear? World musical influences?
- How has the meaning changed?
- Celebration of the original? Or exploitation? Cultural appropriation?
- What are the implications for "world music"?
- See this article by Jeff Miers.
More about the course...
- This class is itself a M4GHD project!
- In this class you will create a mini M4GHD project as a response to needs and constraints of your CSL placement.
- CSL organizations: a variety of organizations have offered placements...representatives will be visiting us over the next two weeks to help you decide where you'd like to volunteer. Consult this list.
- Introduction to CSL and the CSL Certificate. Set up via portal. 20 hours of CSL during the term, replacing other work.
- Easy to remember URL shorteners:
- bit.ly/m4ghd20 = syllabus
- bit.ly/m4ghd20e = eClass
- bit.ly/m4ghd20s = schedule
- Course syllabus review (note what is due next Thursday)
Thurs
Announcements
- Set up your log file (via eClass: see "Student field note logs Wiki")
Due today
- "About me" due (not graded; via eClass: http://bit.ly/m4ghd20e)
- Prepare to sing Rosie
Ideas: music of by and for the people
- Musical adaptation via participation - Tarab: Sabah Fakhri
- Too much music separates us rather than connecting us.
- M4GHD should connect through thought-feeling (ideas and emotions) and interaction. Some features:
- Avoid the visual. Music is an auditory art.
- Inclusive style : Not too virtuosic. No high wire acts. Keep it slow and easy, or at least provide parts that enable participation.
- Body music central. Everyone has a body, including voice. Not everyone has a bass clarinet.
- Vocal timbre : accommodating of all voices
- Range : medium
- Pitch : microtonality, wide tonemes - expressive
- Scale : open notes, blue notes... pentatonic leaves more space.
- Notes: avoid the discrete; go for the expressive gesture. Musical elements need not be notes.
- Polyphony : flexible shifting of lines
- Melody : Improv, using responsive rules of interaction, encourage connection
- Harmony : octave as well as fourth fifth third equivalents, allows folding of range
- Meter : polymeters provide more than one way to fit
- Form : call and response or interlocking, hocket (connecting). Longer flexible patterns
- Improvisation and flexibility: there's room for individual expression, without compromising the whole. But improvisation has a range and an ideal number of "rules", and there's a bell curve of rules: too many or too few rules are constraining. See Stravinsky, The Poetics of Music, p. 63.
- Lyrics: collectively composed by all participants, maybe improvised? Repetition and vocables make it easier.
- Rosie performances
"The creator's function is to sift the elements he receives from [imagination], for human activity must impose limits upon itself. The more art is controlled, limited, worked over, the more it is free" - Igor Stravinsky, The Poetics of Music, p. 63