Week 3 (Jan 18-22) - Audiovisual media: worldwide uses, and issues of ethnographic representation

Tuesday 19: Lecture & discussion

Assigned reading:

Lysloff, René and Leslie C. Gay Jr. “Introduction: Ethnomusicology in the Twenty-first Century” in René Lysloff and Lesile C. Gay Jr. (eds.) Music and Technoculture. Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, 2003, pp. 1-22.

Thursday 21: Lecture & discussion:

Assigned reading:

Pease, Rowan. “Internet, fandom, and K-Wave in China.” In Howard, Keith (ed.). Korean Pop Music: Riding the Wave. Folkstone: Global Oriental, 2006, pp. 161-175.

YouTube links for this class:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6FPfd59834

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqRv2Md6Slg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MEJFZqVXO0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2CXeCarIL8

Additional reading:

Greene, Paul D. “Sound Engineering in a Tamil Village: Playing audio cassettes as devotional performance”, Ethnomusicology, 43/3, 1999, pp. 459-489.