WEEK 4 - Oct 4 - Of theory and practice: neo-comparativism, ethnoscience, theory of practice in EM

Reference readings:

Browse the entry “Ethnomusicology: IV. Contemporary theoretical issues” (by Martin Stokes) in Grove Music Online.

Stone 2008: chapters 4, 5, 7.

Discussion readings:

Browse Lomax 1976: 8-47 (skim the rest too, and listen to the tapes if you’re really keen).

Feld 1981.

Turino 1990.

Additional readings:

Feld 1990.

DUE: POP

DUE: brief presentation of POP in class