Week 8 - Nov 1, 3, 5 - Musics of the world in the World Music market
- Mon: Lecture (case study: Central African Republic)
- Wed: Film screening: Buena Vista Social Club, by Wim Wenders.
- Fri: Lecture (case studies: Cuba, Syria)
Readings:
Assigned reading:
Feld, Steven. “Pygmy POP: A genealogy of schizophonic mimesis.” Yearbook for Traditional Music, 28, 1996, pp. 1-35.
Additional reading:
Shannon, Jonathan H. “Sultans of Spin. Syrian Sacred Music on the World Stage.” In Post, Jennifer C. (ed.) Ethnomusicology. A Contemporary Reader. New York: Routledge, 2006, pp. 17-32.
Further reading (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.
