Issues in Ethnomusicology (Fall 2008)
Music 665: Issues in Ethnomusicology
Fall 2008 SEM A1
Meetings: F 1-4, Fine Arts Building 3-56
Professor Michael Frishkopf
Office: 3-67 Fine Arts Building (492-0670), 3-47F Old Arts Building (folkwaysAlive!)(492-0225)
Fax (780) 492-0242
email: michaelf@ualberta.ca
Office hours: Wednesdays, 1-2:30 PM, 3-47F Old Arts Building
This course aims to catalyze your critical understanding of the field of ethnomusicology, considered as a practice, a discourse, a literature, an intellectual history, and a shifting social network, by cultivating familiarity with its issues, sources, theories, methods, and seminal figures, and its self-positioning in relation to other scholarly domains (especially anthropology and musicology). Together we’ll explore the ways in which ethnomusicology has formulated itself by drawing upon related fields of the human sciences, such as anthropology, folklore, linguistics, psychology, sociology, economics, history, political science, literary studies, applying a variety of theoretical paradigms to ethnomusicological data. The course also aims to introduce you to ethnomusicology's principal scholarly sources, rapidly traversing a wide array of ethnomusicological literature, while pausing to consider landmark works in greater depth. Finally, this course encourages development of your own research directions in ethnomusicology, and a deeper understanding of the research process, through preparation of an original research proposal.
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