Week 1 - September 14: Introduction to the course: defining Ethnomusicology

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Reference readings:

From Oxford Music Online (available through the UofA Libraries databases), skim as many of the following entries as you can: “Ethnomusicology, I: Introduction” in Grove Music Online; “Ethnomusicology” in The Oxford Companion to Music; “Musicology, I: The nature of musicology” in Grove Music Online; “Musicology” in The Oxford Companion to Music; “Comparative musicology” in Grove Music Online; “World Music” in The Oxford Companion to Music; “Folk Music” in Grove Music Online; “Popular Music, I: Popular music in the West. 1. Definitions” and “6. The study of popular music” in Grove Music Online; “Popular Music, II: World popular music” in Grove Music Online; “Pop, V. Non-Western cultures” in Grove Music Online.

Discussion readings:

Merriam 1964: 1-16; 17-35.

Rice 1987, plus the response by Anthony Seeger (1987). [Both these readings are available online through JSTOR in the UofA Libraries databases)

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