Ethnomusicology and social network analysis

Assignments

for Wed Sep 19th

(1) Read chapter 1 of Exploratory Social Network Analysis with Pajek (Structural Analysis in the Social Sciences) (ESNAP) by Wouter de Nooy, Andrej Mrvar, and Vladimir Batagelj and try out Pajek.

Pajek is a free download: http://vlado.fmf.uni-lj.si/pub/networks/pajek/ It only works on Windows machines, so you'll have to have access to one. Hopefully you do already.

(2) optional: For an alternative intro, try Network Concepts.pdf Basic Network Concepts, by C. Kadushin

(3) also optional: browse

http://www.insna.org/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_network_analysis

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_world_experiment

for Wed Sep 26th

Read chapters 1 and 2 of ESNAP, try out all examples with Pajek, and do all the exercises at the ends of the chapters. Correct them yourself, give me the corrected work, and let me know if you have any problems. Have a look at the Dept of Music study we did a few years back (emailed to you).

Possible modes of data collection in SNA include:

1. surveys (online, paper)
2. interviews
3. observation
4. online data mining

Possible structures relevant to music include:

1. interactions in a musical group
2. the structure of musical pedagogy (e.g. teaching lineages)
3. peer consultations in a music class
4. communities of musical taste
5. co-participation in musical events (as performers or listeners)
6. online social networks via social network sites
7. email networks (who emails whom)
8. musical collaborations
9. face to face interactions among musicians
10. who practices or performs together
11. communications about music
12. friendship networks among musicians
13. the relation between friendship networks and musical taste (or co-participation) (how is subculture defined musically?)

Sketch out a possible ethnomusicological social network analysis project of your own: a small or online data study (for P); real-life ethnographic data (for N). N should also start preparing an ethics application.