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.
Links for this week:
Herbie Hancock: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jo5GcYeh7XA
Madonna: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEI5AxPE2QA
Zap Mama: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6onXt2bwDY
Deep Forest: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SqtowWSVlc
For ethnographic recordings of Central African Pygmy music, search the library catalogue under Arom, Simha (Author) or Colin Turnbull (Author).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSrdFo-vNDY
http://www.fesfestival.com/en07/index.htm
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.
