Theory for Ethnomusicology

During this segment of the course we'll cover roughly 2 chapters each week, as follows...

Week 8 - ch 1. Inquiry in Ethnomusicology

Theory

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   * Concept and Theory Formation in the Social Sciences
   * Author(s): Alfred Schutz
   * Source: The Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 51, No. 9 (Apr. 29, 1954), pp. 257-273
   * Publisher: Journal of Philosophy, Inc.
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   *  Can Social Theory Escape from History? Views of History in Social Science
   * Author(s): Peter Knapp
   * Source: History and Theory, Vol. 23, No. 1 (Feb., 1984), pp. 34-52
   * Publisher: Blackwell Publishing for Wesleyan University
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Week 8 - ch 2. Cultural Evolutionism and Diffusionism in Comparative Musicology

Application

Richard Wallaschek

   *  The Ethnology of African Sound-Instruments. Comments on "Geist und Werden der Musikinstrumente" by C. Sachs
   * Author(s): E. M. Von Hornbostel
   * Source: Africa: Journal of the International African Institute, Vol. 6, No. 2 (Apr., 1933), pp. 129-157
   * Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
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   *  Indonesia and Africa: The Xylophone as a Culture-Indicator
   * Author(s): A. M. Jones
   * Source: The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Vol. 89, No. 2 (Jul. - Dec., 1959), pp. 155-168
   * Publisher: Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland
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Week 9 - ch. 3. Structural-Functional Approaches

   *  On the Concept of Function in Social Science
   * Author(s): A. R. Radcliffe-Brown
   * Source: American Anthropologist, New Series, Vol. 37, No. 3, Part 1 (Jul. - Sep., 1935), pp. 394-402
   * Publisher: Blackwell Publishing on behalf of the American Anthropological Association
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   *  The Group and the Individual in Functional Analysis
   * Author(s): Bronislaw Malinowski
   * Source: The American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 44, No. 6 (May, 1939), pp. 938-964
   * Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
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Merriam, Anthropology of Music, Ch. XI

Daniel Neuman, The Life of Music in North India, ch. 4

   *  The Value of Music in Human Experience
   * Author(s): John Blacking
   * Source: Yearbook of the International Folk Music Council, Vol. 1, (1969), pp. 33-71
   * Publisher: International Council for Traditional Music
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Week 9 - ch. 4. Linguistic Approaches

   *  'Are'are Classification of Musical Types and Instruments
   * Author(s): Hugo Zemp
   * Source: Ethnomusicology, Vol. 22, No. 1 (Jan., 1978), pp. 37-67
   * Publisher: University of Illinois Press on behalf of Society for Ethnomusicology
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   * Signs of Imagination, Identity, and Experience: A Peircian Semiotic Theory for Music
   * Author(s): Thomas Turino
   * Source: Ethnomusicology, Vol. 43, No. 2 (Spring - Summer, 1999), pp. 221-255
   * Publisher: University of Illinois Press on behalf of Society for Ethnomusicology
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   *  Processes of Musical Semiosis
   * Author(s): Charles L. Boiles
   * Source: Yearbook for Traditional Music, Vol. 14, (1982), pp. 24-44
   * Publisher: International Council for Traditional Music
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   *  Linguistic Models in Ethnomusicology
   * Author(s): Steven Feld
   * Source: Ethnomusicology, Vol. 18, No. 2 (May, 1974), pp. 197-217
   * Publisher: University of Illinois Press on behalf of Society for Ethnomusicology
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Week 10 - ch. 5. Paradigmatic Structuralism

Levi-Strauss, Structural Anthropology, Vol. I, chapter VIII.

Levi-Strauss, Structural Anthropology, Vol. II, chapter X.

   *  The Homology of Music and Myth: Views of Lévi-Strauss on Musical Structure
   * Author(s): Pandora Hopkins
   * Source: Ethnomusicology, Vol. 21, No. 2 (May, 1977), pp. 247-261
   * Publisher: University of Illinois Press on behalf of Society for Ethnomusicology
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   *  What Can We Learn When They Sing? Vocal Genres of the Suya Indians of Central Brazil
   * Author(s): Anthony Seeger
   * Source: Ethnomusicology, Vol. 23, No. 3 (Sep., 1979), pp. 373-394
   * Publisher: University of Illinois Press on behalf of Society for Ethnomusicology
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Feld, Sound and Sentiment, ch. 1

Week 10 - ch. 6. Marxist Explanations

   *  From Ranchero to Jait?n: Ethnicity and Class in Texas-Mexican Music (Two Styles in the Form of a Pair)
   * Author(s): Manuel Pena
   * Source: Ethnomusicology, Vol. 29, No. 1 (Winter, 1985), pp. 29-55
   * Publisher: University of Illinois Press on behalf of Society for Ethnomusicology
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   *  How Autonomous Is Relative: Popular Music, the Social Formation and Cultural Struggle
   * Author(s): Reebee Garofalo
   * Source: Popular Music, Vol. 6, No. 1 (Jan., 1987), pp. 77-92
   * Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Week 11 - ch. 7. Literary and Dramaturgical Theories

   *  'Flow like a Waterfall': The Metaphors of Kaluli Musical Theory
   * Author(s): Steven Feld
   * Source: Yearbook for Traditional Music, Vol. 13, (1981), pp. 22-47
   * Publisher: International Council for Traditional Music
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   *  Aesthetics as Iconicity of Style, or 'Lift-up-over Sounding': Getting into the Kaluli Groove
   * Author(s): Steven Feld
   * Source: Yearbook for Traditional Music, Vol. 20, (1988), pp. 74-113
   * Published by: International Council for Traditional Music
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Week 11 - ch. 8. Cognition and Communication Theory

   *  Universals in Music: A Perspective from Cognitive Psychology
   * Author(s): Dane L. Harwood
   * Source: Ethnomusicology, Vol. 20, No. 3 (Sep., 1976), pp. 521-533
   * Publisher: University of Illinois Press on behalf of Society for Ethnomusicology
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Maurice Bloch, "Symbols, song, dance and features of articulation [photocopy] : is religion an extreme from of traditional authority?" European journal of sociology v. 15 (1974) p. 55-81. Rutherford : ON_SHELF-- HM 1 A1 A673. The article is also available in Ritual, history, and power : selected papers in anthropology / Maurice Bloch. Rutherford: DT 469 M277 M437 B85 1989] [note: I couldn't find this article online; please xerox from the journal and return the journal issue to its place for others to use.]

Week 12 - ch. 9. Performance Theory (and emotion) in Ethnomusicology

   *  Drama, Script, Theatre, and Performance
   * Author(s): Richard Schechner
   * Source: The Drama Review: TDR, Vol. 17, No. 3, Theatre and the Social Sciences (Sep., 1973), pp. 5-36
   * Publisher: The MIT Press
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   *  Verbal Art as Performance
   * Author(s): Richard Bauman
   * Source: American Anthropologist, New Series, Vol. 77, No. 2 (Jun., 1975), pp. 290-311
   * Publisher: Blackwell Publishing on behalf of the American Anthropological Association
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Kapferer, Bruce. 1979. Emotion and Feeling in Sinhalese Healing Rites. Social Analysis 1:153-176.

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February 1979. Ritual Process and the Transformation of Context. Social Analysis 1:3-19.

   *  Passion and Performance in Fiji Indian Vernacular Song
   * Author(s): Donald Brenneis
   * Source: Ethnomusicology, Vol. 29, No. 3 (Autumn, 1985), pp. 397-408
   * Publisher: University of Illinois Press on behalf of Society for Ethnomusicology
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   *  Performing Passions: Aesthetics and Politics in an Occasionally Egalitarian Community
   * Author(s): Donald Brenneis
   * Source: American Ethnologist, Vol. 14, No. 2 (May, 1987), pp. 236-250
   * Publisher: Blackwell Publishing on behalf of the American Anthropological Association
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   *  Head, Heart, Odor, and Shadow: The Structure of the Self, the Emotional World, and Ritual Performance among Senoi Temiar
   * Author(s): Marina Roseman
   * Source: Ethos, Vol. 18, No. 3 (Sep., 1990), pp. 227-250
   * Publisher: Blackwell Publishing on behalf of the American Anthropological Association
   * Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org.login.ezproxy.library.ualberta.ca/stable/640336

   *  "Pulling the Ancestors": Performance Practice and Praxis in Mapuche Ordering
   * Author(s): Carol E. Robertson
   * Source: Ethnomusicology, Vol. 23, No. 3 (Sep., 1979), pp. 395-416
   * Publisher: University of Illinois Press on behalf of Society for Ethnomusicology
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Tambiah, S. J. 1979. A Performative Approach to Ritual. Proc. of the British Academy 65:113-70.

Week 12 - ch. 10. Gender, Ethnicity, and Identity Issues

   *  The Nightingale and the Partridge: Singing and Gender among Prespa Albanians
   * Author(s): Jane C. Sugarman
   * Source: Ethnomusicology, Vol. 33, No. 2 (Spring - Summer, 1989), pp. 191-215
   * Publisher: University of Illinois Press on behalf of Society for Ethnomusicology
   * Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org.login.ezproxy.library.ualberta.ca/stable/924395

   *  "Our Tradition Is a Very Modern Tradition": Popular Music and the Construction of Pan-Yoruba Identity
   * Author(s): Christopher A. Waterman
   * Source: Ethnomusicology, Vol. 34, No. 3 (Autumn, 1990), pp. 367-379
   * Published by: University of Illinois Press on behalf of Society for Ethnomusicology
   * Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org.login.ezproxy.library.ualberta.ca/stable/851623

Stokes, M. (1997). Ethnicity, identity, and music : the musical construction of place. New York: Berg.

Koskoff, E. (Ed.). (1987). Women and music in cross-cultural perspective. New York :: Greenwood Press.

Week 13 - ch. 11. Phenomenology and Experiential Ethnomusicology

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   *  "Tails out": Social Phenomenology and the Ethnographic Representation of Technology in Music-Making
   * Author(s): Thomas Porcello
   * Source: Ethnomusicology, Vol. 42, No. 3 (Autumn, 1998), pp. 485-510
   * Publisher: University of Illinois Press on behalf of Society for Ethnomusicology
   * Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org.login.ezproxy.library.ualberta.ca/stable/852851

Musical & emotion (MF paper)

Week 13 - ch. 13. Postmodern, Postcolonial, and Global Issues

   *  How Beautiful Is Small? Music, Globalization and the Aesthetics of the Local
   * Author(s): Veit Erlmann
   * Source: Yearbook for Traditional Music, Vol. 30, (1998), pp. 12-21
   * Publisher: International Council for Traditional Music
   * Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org.login.ezproxy.library.ualberta.ca/stable/768551

   *  Riffs, Repetition, and Theories of Globalization
   * Author(s): Ingrid Monson
   * Source: Ethnomusicology, Vol. 43, No. 1 (Winter, 1999), pp. 31-65
   * Publisher: University of Illinois Press on behalf of Society for Ethnomusicology
   * Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org.login.ezproxy.library.ualberta.ca/stable/852693

   *  The Invention of "African Rhythm"
   * Author(s): Kofi Agawu
   * Source: Journal of the American Musicological Society, Vol. 48, No. 3, Music Anthropologies and Music Histories (Autumn, 1995), pp. 380-395
   * Publisher: University of California Press on behalf of the American Musicological Society
   * Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org.login.ezproxy.library.ualberta.ca/stable/3519832

Optional ("week 14")

Week 14 - ch. 12. Historical Research

   *  Historical Aspects of Ethnomusicology
   * Author(s): Bruno Nettl
   * Source: American Anthropologist, New Series, Vol. 60, No. 3 (Jun., 1958), pp. 518-532
   * Publisher: Blackwell Publishing on behalf of the American Anthropological Association
   * Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org.login.ezproxy.library.ualberta.ca/stable/666340

   *  "Historical Ethnomusicology": Reconstructing Falasha Liturgical History
   * Author(s): Kay Kaufman Shelemay
   * Source: Ethnomusicology, Vol. 24, No. 2 (May, 1980), pp. 233-258
   * Publisher: University of Illinois Press on behalf of Society for Ethnomusicology
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   *  The Survival of Some Aspects of Medieval Arabic Performance Practice
   * Author(s): George D. Sawa
   * Source: Ethnomusicology, Vol. 25, No. 1 (Jan., 1981), pp. 73-86
   * Publisher: University of Illinois Press on behalf of Society for Ethnomusicology
   * Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org.login.ezproxy.library.ualberta.ca/stable/850975

   *  "Min al-Mash?yikh": A View of Egyptian Musical Tradition
   * Author(s): Virginia Danielson
   * Source: Asian Music, Vol. 22, No. 1 (Autumn, 1990 - Winter, 1991), pp. 113-127
   * Publisher: University of Texas Press
   * Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org.login.ezproxy.library.ualberta.ca/stable/834292

Week 14 - Multimedia and applied ethnomusicology

Most ethnomusicological research is published in silent form. But these days it's increasingly easy to publish in multimedia formats, including audio (CD or web) and video. Often these forms are more powerful ways to convey a message, and to effect social change, especially useful in applied work.

Film: Gnawa

The Buduburam CD Project.

Smithsonian Folkways Records, and folkwaysAlive!

Week 14 - MF approaches

Aesthetic experience. Music and emotion - 3 lines of inquiry (saltanah). Aesthetics, mysticism, creativity.

Systematic localized comparison, ritual theory, and LP

Social network analysis

Practice and systems approach (Bourdieu, Luhmann, Habermas)

Musical performance, social networks, and the built environment