Ethnomusicology and social network analysis
Assignments
(1) Read chapter 1 of Exploratory Social Network Analysis with Pajek (Structural Analysis in the Social Sciences) 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