Week 10 (March 8-12) - Popular music, nationhood and nationalism

Tuesday 9: Lecture & class discussion

Assigned readings:

Turino, Thomas. Nationalists, Cosmopolitans, and Popular Music in Zimbabwe. Chicago / London: The University of Chicago Press, 2000, part three (pp. 161-219).

Hudson, Robert. “Popular Music, Tradition and Serbian Nationalism.” In Biddle, Ian & Vanessa Knights (eds.) Music, National Identity and the Politics of Location. Aldershot. England / Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2007, pp. 161-178.

Additional reading:

Waterman, Christopher. “‘Our tradition is a very modern tradition’: popular music and the construction of pan-Yoruba identity.” Ethnomusicology, 34/3, 1990, pp. 367-379.

Thursday 11: Film screening & class discussion

Film: Umm Kulthum: A Voice Like Egypt. By Michael Goldman. Waltham, MA: Filmmakers Collaborative, 1996.

Film reading:

Lohman, Laura. “‘The Artist in the Battle’: Umm Kulth?m’s Concerts for Egypt in Political Context.” In Nooshin, Laudan (ed.) Music and the Play of Power in the Middle East, North Africa and Central Asia. Farnham, Surrey / Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2009, pp. 33-53.