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| + | '''During this segment of the course we'll cover roughly 2 chapters each week, as follows...''' | ||
| − | == ch 1. Inquiry in Ethnomusicology == | + | == Week 8 - ch 1. Inquiry in Ethnomusicology == |
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| + | === Theory === | ||
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* Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org.login.ezproxy.library.ualberta.ca/stable/2504970 | * Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org.login.ezproxy.library.ualberta.ca/stable/2504970 | ||
| − | == ch 2. Cultural Evolutionism and Diffusionism in Comparative Musicology == | + | === Application === |
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| + | == Week 8 - ch 2. Cultural Evolutionism and Diffusionism in Comparative Musicology == | ||
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| + | === Theory === | ||
| + | === Application === | ||
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| + | Richard Wallaschek | ||
* The Ethnology of African Sound-Instruments. Comments on "Geist und Werden der Musikinstrumente" by C. Sachs | * The Ethnology of African Sound-Instruments. Comments on "Geist und Werden der Musikinstrumente" by C. Sachs | ||
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* Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org.login.ezproxy.library.ualberta.ca/stable/2844267 | * Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org.login.ezproxy.library.ualberta.ca/stable/2844267 | ||
| − | + | == Week 9 - ch. 3. Structural-Functional Approaches == | |
| − | == ch. 3. Structural-Functional Approaches == | ||
* On the Concept of Function in Social Science | * On the Concept of Function in Social Science | ||
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* Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org.login.ezproxy.library.ualberta.ca/stable/767634 | * Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org.login.ezproxy.library.ualberta.ca/stable/767634 | ||
| − | == ch. 4. Linguistic Approaches == | + | == Week 9 - ch. 4. Linguistic Approaches == |
* 'Are'are Classification of Musical Types and Instruments | * 'Are'are Classification of Musical Types and Instruments | ||
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* Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org.login.ezproxy.library.ualberta.ca/stable/850579 | * Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org.login.ezproxy.library.ualberta.ca/stable/850579 | ||
| − | == ch. 5. Paradigmatic Structuralism == | + | == Week 10 - ch. 5. Paradigmatic Structuralism == |
Levi-Strauss, Structural Anthropology, Vol. I, chapter VIII. | Levi-Strauss, Structural Anthropology, Vol. I, chapter VIII. | ||
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Feld, Sound and Sentiment, ch. 1 | Feld, Sound and Sentiment, ch. 1 | ||
| − | == ch. 6. Marxist Explanations == | + | == 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) | * From Ranchero to Jait?n: Ethnicity and Class in Texas-Mexican Music (Two Styles in the Form of a Pair) | ||
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* Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org.login.ezproxy.library.ualberta.ca/stable/853167 | * Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org.login.ezproxy.library.ualberta.ca/stable/853167 | ||
| − | == ch. 7. Literary and Dramaturgical Theories == | + | == Week 11 - ch. 7. Literary and Dramaturgical Theories == |
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* Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org.login.ezproxy.library.ualberta.ca/stable/768356 | * Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org.login.ezproxy.library.ualberta.ca/stable/768356 | ||
| − | + | * 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 | ||
| + | * Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org.login.ezproxy.library.ualberta.ca/stable/768167 | ||
| − | + | == Week 11 - ch. 8. Cognition and Communication Theory == | |
| − | == ch. 8. Cognition and Communication Theory == | ||
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* Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org.login.ezproxy.library.ualberta.ca/stable/851047 | * Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org.login.ezproxy.library.ualberta.ca/stable/851047 | ||
| + | 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.] | ||
| − | == ch. 9. Performance Theory (and emotion) in Ethnomusicology == | + | == Week 12 - ch. 9. Performance Theory (and emotion) in Ethnomusicology == |
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Tambiah, S. J. 1979. A Performative Approach to Ritual. Proc. of the British Academy 65:113-70. | Tambiah, S. J. 1979. A Performative Approach to Ritual. Proc. of the British Academy 65:113-70. | ||
| − | == ch. 10. Gender, Ethnicity, and Identity Issues == | + | == Week 12 - ch. 10. Gender, Ethnicity, and Identity Issues == |
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* Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org.login.ezproxy.library.ualberta.ca/stable/924395 | * Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org.login.ezproxy.library.ualberta.ca/stable/924395 | ||
| − | == ch. 11. Phenomenology and Experiential Ethnomusicology == | + | * "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 | ||
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| + | Stokes, M. (1997). Ethnicity, identity, and music : the musical construction of place. New York: Berg. | ||
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| + | Koskoff, E. (Ed.). (1987). Women and music in cross-cultural perspective. New York :: Greenwood Press. | ||
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| + | == Week 13 - ch. 11. Phenomenology and Experiential Ethnomusicology == | ||
http://www.phenomenologyonline.com/ | http://www.phenomenologyonline.com/ | ||
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* Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org.login.ezproxy.library.ualberta.ca/stable/852851 | * Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org.login.ezproxy.library.ualberta.ca/stable/852851 | ||
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| − | + | == Week 13 - ch. 13. Postmodern, Postcolonial, and Global Issues == | |
| − | == ch. 13. Postmodern, Postcolonial, and Global Issues == | ||
* How Beautiful Is Small? Music, Globalization and the Aesthetics of the Local | * How Beautiful Is Small? Music, Globalization and the Aesthetics of the Local | ||
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* Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org.login.ezproxy.library.ualberta.ca/stable/3519832 | * Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org.login.ezproxy.library.ualberta.ca/stable/3519832 | ||
| − | == | + | == Optional ("week 14") == |
| + | === Week 14 - ch. 12. Historical Research === | ||
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| + | * 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 | ||
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| + | * "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 | ||
| + | * Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org.login.ezproxy.library.ualberta.ca/stable/851114 | ||
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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 | ||
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| + | * "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 === | ||
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| + | 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. | ||
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| + | Film: Gnawa | ||
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| + | 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 | |
| + | [http://www.insna.org/ Social network analysis] | ||
| + | Practice and systems approach (Bourdieu, Luhmann, Habermas) | ||
| − | + | Musical performance, social networks, and the built environment | |
Latest revision as of 11:11, 21 November 2008
During this segment of the course we'll cover roughly 2 chapters each week, as follows...
Contents
- 1 Week 8 - ch 1. Inquiry in Ethnomusicology
- 2 Week 8 - ch 2. Cultural Evolutionism and Diffusionism in Comparative Musicology
- 3 Week 9 - ch. 3. Structural-Functional Approaches
- 4 Week 9 - ch. 4. Linguistic Approaches
- 5 Week 10 - ch. 5. Paradigmatic Structuralism
- 6 Week 10 - ch. 6. Marxist Explanations
- 7 Week 11 - ch. 7. Literary and Dramaturgical Theories
- 8 Week 11 - ch. 8. Cognition and Communication Theory
- 9 Week 12 - ch. 9. Performance Theory (and emotion) in Ethnomusicology
- 10 Week 12 - ch. 10. Gender, Ethnicity, and Identity Issues
- 11 Week 13 - ch. 11. Phenomenology and Experiential Ethnomusicology
- 12 Week 13 - ch. 13. Postmodern, Postcolonial, and Global Issues
- 13 Optional ("week 14")
Week 8 - ch 1. Inquiry in Ethnomusicology
Theory
http://www.des.emory.edu/mfp/Kuhnsnap.html
* 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. * Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org.login.ezproxy.library.ualberta.ca/stable/2021812
* 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 * Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org.login.ezproxy.library.ualberta.ca/stable/2504970
Application
Week 8 - ch 2. Cultural Evolutionism and Diffusionism in Comparative Musicology
Theory
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 * Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org.login.ezproxy.library.ualberta.ca/stable/1155180
* 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 * Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org.login.ezproxy.library.ualberta.ca/stable/2844267
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 * Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org.login.ezproxy.library.ualberta.ca/stable/661962
* 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 * Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org.login.ezproxy.library.ualberta.ca/stable/2769422
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 * Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org.login.ezproxy.library.ualberta.ca/stable/767634
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 * Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org.login.ezproxy.library.ualberta.ca/stable/851365
* 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 * Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org.login.ezproxy.library.ualberta.ca/stable/852734
* 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 * Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org.login.ezproxy.library.ualberta.ca/stable/768069
* 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 * Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org.login.ezproxy.library.ualberta.ca/stable/850579
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 * Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org.login.ezproxy.library.ualberta.ca/stable/850946
* 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 * Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org.login.ezproxy.library.ualberta.ca/stable/850911
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 * Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org.login.ezproxy.library.ualberta.ca/stable/852323
* 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 * Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org.login.ezproxy.library.ualberta.ca/stable/853167
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 * Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org.login.ezproxy.library.ualberta.ca/stable/768356
* 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 * Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org.login.ezproxy.library.ualberta.ca/stable/768167
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 * Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org.login.ezproxy.library.ualberta.ca/stable/851047
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 * Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org.login.ezproxy.library.ualberta.ca/stable/1144841
* 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 * Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org.login.ezproxy.library.ualberta.ca/stable/674535
Kapferer, Bruce. 1979. Emotion and Feeling in Sinhalese Healing Rites. Social Analysis 1:153-176.
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 * Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org.login.ezproxy.library.ualberta.ca/stable/851796
* 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 * Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org.login.ezproxy.library.ualberta.ca/stable/645372
* 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 * Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org.login.ezproxy.library.ualberta.ca/stable/850912
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
http://www.phenomenologyonline.com/
* "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 * Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org.login.ezproxy.library.ualberta.ca/stable/851114
* 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
Practice and systems approach (Bourdieu, Luhmann, Habermas)
Musical performance, social networks, and the built environment
