Topics in Ethnomusicology: Music for Global Human Development

Music for Global Human Development (Music 365)

NOTE: CONTRARY TO WHAT IS IMPLIED ON BEAR TRACKS: there is NO prerequisite for this course other than consent of the instructor, which I will provide to anyone sincerely interested to enroll, and there are NO additional course fees.

This course will focus on Music for Global Human Development -- the ways music can be used for social progress on a variety of issues (health, education, peace, integration). We will work together on an applied ethnomusicology project in tandem with the Edmonton Mennonite Centre for Newcomers (EMCN), focusing on immigration, refugees, and socio-cultural integration through music. We will combine readings in applied ethnomusicology, ethnomusicolgy and migration, and critical development studies with project reviews, and a class project in collaboration with EMCN.

CSL: this course will count for the UofA's Community Service Learning program & its associated certificate; you will volunteer 20 hours with Edmonton Mennonite Centre for Newcomers. This time will be counted towards your workload, and will not pose a burden above and beyond what Music 365 typically demands. Rather some of your academic work will instead take the form of volunteer service. These hours will not necessarily be spent on the premises of EMCN; there will be a variety of ways to work with this organization, depending on the project, which will be formulated collectively by the class.

Prerequisite: Bear Tracks lists MUSIC 202 or consent of the department. Do not worry if you've never taken Music 102 - this course has never been offered! Please email me to receive consent.

Fees: Bear Tracks states that additional fees may be assessed for Music 365. There are no additional fees for this course.

Please write Prof. Michael Frishkopf for more information.

(Space is limited ...so please enroll sooner rather than later!)

ps - I suggest that you also enroll in The Middle Eastern and North African Music Ensemble, as the two courses will work very well together.

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Music for Global Human Development: Participatory Action Research cycles towards a stronger social fabric.

Music is a social technology of tremendous potential for positive social change. Music for Global Human Development (m4ghd) is an approach to applied ethnomusicology. M4GHD 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. These music-centered projects, often including also related arts (dance, poetry, drama) as well, are ideally twinned with evaluative evidence-based research, gauging project impact through anthropological and sociological study. They are carried out as collaborative partnerships with artists and other experts in each locale.

M4GHD is a project of the Canadian Centre for Ethnomusicology

For more information see http://m4ghd.org