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Ethnomusicology courses

Mandatory ethics training for graduate students

All music graduate students must complete this training. See:

• Ethics training for Music graduate students
• Arts, Science and Law Research Ethics Board

Summer programs

• Study African arts and culture in Ghana! (not offered summer 2012)
• University of Alberta Summer World Music Program

Fall 2012

• Issues in Ethnomusicology (Fall 2012) (Music 665)
• African Popular Music (Fall 2012) (Music 465/565)
• Introduction to World Music (Fall 2012) (Music 102)

Winter 2012

• Field Methods in Ethnomusicology (Winter 2012) (Music 666)
• Music and Islam (Winter 2012) (Music 469/569)
• Introduction to Modern Italian Musical Life: From Opera to Hip Hop (Winter 2012 - School of Cortona) (Music 365)

Fall 2011

• Music culture as a social network (Fall 2011) (Music 466/566)

• Introduction to World Music (2011) (Music 102)

• Issues in Ethnomusicology (2011) (Music 665)

Winter 2011

• Music and Documentary Filmmaking (Winter 2011) (Music 466/566)
• Field Methods in Ethnomusicology (Winter 2011) (Music 666)
• Area studies: India and South Asia (Winter 2011) (Music 467/567)

Fall 2010

• Ethnomusicology of the Arab World (Fall 2010) (Music 468/568)
• Introduction to World Music (2010) (Music 102)
• Issues in Ethnomusicology (Fall 2010) (Music 665)

Winter 2010

• Introduction to Ethnomusicology: Popular Musics of the World (Music 365)
• Field Methods in Ethnomusicology (Winter 2010) (Music 666)
• Music and Religion (Winter 2010) (Music 464/564)

Fall 2009

• Issues in Ethnomusicology (Fall 2009) (Music 665)
• Area Studies in Ethnomusicology (Music 465/565): Music of the Persianate World: Iran and Central Asia
• Topics in Ethnomusicology (Music 466/566)

Winter 2009

• Field methods in Ethnomusicology (Winter 2009) (Music 666)
• Music and Islam (Winter 2009) (Music 469/569)
• Introduction to Ethnomusicology (Winter 2009) (Music 365)

Fall 2008

• Issues in Ethnomusicology (Fall 2008) (Music 665)
• Ethnomusicology: India & S Asia (Fall 2008) (Music 467/567)
• Music and Politics (Fall 2008) (Music 467/567)

Winter 2008

• Introduction to Ethnomusicology: Music of Iran and Central Asia (Winter 2008) (Music 365)
• Ethnomusicology of the Arab World (Winter 2008) (Music 468/568)
• Field methods in Ethnomusicology (Winter 2008) (Music 666)

Fall 2007

• Music and Religion (Music 464/564)
• Issues in Ethnomusicology (Music 665)
• Ethnomusicology and social network analysis (Music 601 reading course)

Winter 2007

• Introduction to Ethnomusicology (Music 365)
• Field Methods In Ethnomusicology (Music 666)
• Music and Islam (Music 469/569)

Fall 2006

• Introduction to World Music (Music 102)
• Area Studies in Ethnomusicology (Music 465/565): Music of the Persianate World: Iran and Central Asia

Winter 2006

• Music and Religion (Music 464/564)
• Topics in Ethnomusicology (Music 566)

World Music Ensembles

• University of Alberta Middle Eastern and North African Music Ensemble (Music x48)
• University of Alberta West African Music Ensemble (Music x44)
• University of Alberta Indian Music Ensemble (Music x43)

Programs and advising for ethnomusicology students

short link: http://bit.ly/ethnoadvise

The Department of Music, Canadian Centre for Ethnomusicology, and folkwaysAlive! support five academic degree programs within which a specialization in ethnomusicology and world music is possible:

• Bachelor of Arts (BA), major or minor in music
• BA Honours in music
• Embedded Certificate in World Sound Arts (can be added to any bachelor degree program across the University)
• Bachelor of Music (BMus), world music route
• MA in Music, with concentration in ethnomusicology
• PhD in Music, with concentration in ethnomusicology

Academic schedule 2012-13

For prospective students

• General information for all prospective students
• General information for all prospective students in Music
• Application checklist for graduate programs in Music
• General information for foreign prospective students
• Online application for graduate students
• Undergraduate programs: Contact Rachael Robertson (780) 492-0602
• Graduate programs: Contact Heather Hindman (780) 492-0603

Please see the following sections also to learn about our programs.

For current students

Undergraduate programs

• Embedded Certificate in World Sound Arts[1](can be added to any bachelor degree program)
• BA, major and minor in music
• BA Honours in music
• BMus World Music Route

Graduate programs

Note that graduate students begin with an interim advisor who serves to provide general mentorship and guidance on course and research related matters. By the end of the first year the program supervisor (or advisor, for the MA course-based route) must be selected, along with the supervisory committee (comprising two additional faculty members) for doctoral students. See the FGSR graduate program manual for more details on supervision.

• MA with concentration in ethnomusicology
• PhD with concentration in ethnomusicology

• Academic area graduate courses
• On enrolling in Thesis Credits
• Graduate programs in Music
• Course listing on Department of Music website
• FGSR graduate program manual
• preparing your thesis
• Thesis filing deadlines
• The Supervisor
• Language requirement. Please begin planning to meet this requirement as early as possible in your program. Note recent changes in the language requirement:
  • MLCS will now be providing the text to be translated-music graduate supervisors no longer need to do this
  • Students can only write the exam twice. If a student doesn’t pass after a second attempt, coursework will be required.

• Resources for ethnomusicological research

• Ethics:
  • Please note that all graduate students must complete the Ethics training for Music graduate students.
  • Prior to conducting research you may be required to receive University of Alberta Research Ethics Board approval.

Check the Arts, Science, and Law Research Ethics Board web site for information and forms.

General resources

• Grad resources from the Dept of Music
• Upper level academic music courses (many of which are open to undergraduates)
• Current UofA course listings, via Bear Tracks
• Department of Music
• FGSR Graduate Program Manual
• Community of Science - database of grants and fellowships
• Peer Support Centre (formerly Student Distress Centre) (you may also visit 2-707 SUB or phone at 780-492-HELP (780-492-4357).

Calendar pages:

• Complete University Calendar (contains links to pdfs)
• University of Alberta Calendar, online
• BMus
• BA major minor, BA Honours
• MA, MMus, PhD, DMus
• Course listings

Projects

• Virtual Museum of Canadian Traditional Music (VMCTM)
• folkwaysAlive! Canadiana CD
• Seeing the World of Sound (virtual exhibit)
• SSHRC Knowledge Impact in Society (KIS)
• Ghana Field Recordings Digitization
• MuDoc system
• Collaborations with the Department of Music, University of Ghana
• Music and architecture in Islam
• Giving voice to hope: Music of Liberian refugees
• KinkaDrum.org
• Mapping Smithsonian Folkways
• Music we love
• Ewe singer-composer-poets of Ghana CD
• edmontonsoundsessions
• 1001 Nights

Documentation

• Digitization Procedures
• Media lab: how-to's
• Forms and Manuals
• Documentary videos for teaching ethnomusicology
• FolkwaysAlive Jukebox how-to
• Cataloguing and Accessioning

Links

• Canadian Centre for Ethnomusicology
• folkwaysAlive!

Research

• Arts, Science and Law Research Ethics Board
• Society for Arab Music Research (SAMR)
• Music and Islam research
• The arts in the Arab diaspora
• Musical Change in Dagbamete, a West African village in Ghana
• Mapping Smithsonian Folkways

Events

Series

• Weekly CCE meetings
• Cultural Soundings
• Ethnographic film series

Conferences

• CSTM meeting

Concerts/workshops

• The music of Rumi, World Music Sampler, Nov 24, Convocation Hall (link for performers)
• The Music of Rumi: a concert performance (link for publicity)
• Trio Tarana workshop, Friday Oct 10, 2008
• Amnesty International - small places, Oct 18 2008
• Women Performers as Agents of Change: Perspectives from India, March 15-16 2010

Ideas & suggestions

• Concert and workshop ideas (visiting artists)
• Lecture ideas (visiting scholars)

Talks, presentations, and courses

Music and Islam talk

Arab music talk

Arab poetry talk

Postcolonial Arab novel

Cultural Representations of Post-Coloniality

Introduction to Middle Eastern and African Studies

Arab cinema

Arabic 211

On Sufism

Musical acoustics

DiscoverE program, summer 2011

Bamboo Shield program, Dec 15 2011

Resources for ethnomusicological research

Library's Music research page

Library's "Ethnic" music research page

Reference works

• Oxford Music Online
• Garland Encyclopedia of World Music

Articles

• Jstor
• Web of Science

Recordings

• Contemporary World Music
• Smithsonian Global Sound

Film

• Ethnographic Video Online and Anthropology Online from Alexander Street Press
• Films on Demand

Funding

• COS Funding Opportunities (database)
• SSHRC

World Music Blogs

http://ethnomusic.podomatic.com/

http://sahelsounds.com/

http://www.awesometapes.com/

http://blogs.voanews.com/african-music-treasures/

FolkwaysAlive Staff

• Jon Kertzer, Director
• Lorna Arndt, Project Manager
• David Descheneau, Technical Development Analyst
• Regula Qureshi, Research Fellow
• Michael Frishkopf, Research Fellow

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