Week 8 (Feb 22-26) - The international music industry and cross-cultural collaborations

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Tuesday 23: Lecture & class discussion

Assigned readings:

Feld, Steven. “Pygmy POP: A genealogy of schizophonic mimesis.” Yearbook for Traditional Music, 28, 1996, pp. 1-35;

Meintjes, Louise. “Paul Simon’s Graceland, South Africa, and the Mediation of Musical Meaning.” Ethnomusicology 34/1, 1990, pp. 37-73.


Additional reading:

Taylor, Timothy D. Global Pop: World Music, World Markets, New York / London, Routledge, 1997, chapter 2 (pp. 39-68).


YouTube links for this class:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULjCSK0oOlI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OafqYNCzq5U


Thursday 25: Film screening & class discussion

Film: Buena Vista Social Club. By Wim Wenders. Road Movies Filmproduktion, 1999.

Film reading:

Perna, Vincenzo. “Marketing nostalgia: the rise of Buena Vista Social Club” in Vincenzo Perna, Timba: the sound of the Cuban crisis, Aldershot & Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2005.


MID-TERM PAPER DUE ON TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 23.

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