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://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:
- surveys (online, paper)
- interviews
- observation
- online data mining
Possible structures relevant to music include:
- interactions in a musical group
- the structure of musical pedagogy (e.g. teaching lineages)
- peer consultations in a music class
- communities of musical taste
- co-participation in musical events (as performers or listeners)
- online social networks via social network sites
- email networks (who emails whom)
- musical collaborations
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.