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Welcome
Course introduction
What is music culture? Broad definition:
- social: relations and practices of music
- semantic: discourses and meanings around music
- phenomenological: experiences and emotions in music
- sonic: musical form and content
What is a social network?
Issues in SNA
- Theory of Graphs, and its applications to social groups
  - What is a graph? Some terms.
    - Node, vertex
    - Link, edge, arc
  - Social groups as graphs (social networks)
- Methods
  - Data collection
  - Data analysis
  - Statistical measures
  - Exploration vs hypothesis testing
  - Software: Pajek: download and install
- Ethics
MCSN: Applications to ethnomusicology
- Musical networks (MNs)
- Musical Social Networks (MSNs)
- Research in MCSN
Pajek
- Installing
- Using
- Help
Course mechanics:
- Wiki: for lecture notes, your collective contributions
- Moodle: for uploading assignments
- Tuesdays: more lecturing, presenting material, answering questions.
- Thursdays: more review, demos, discussions, brainstorming...
- Self-guided days
- Pajek: practice makes perfect
- participation, including attendance, and demos (Thurs).
- chapter exercises, questions (due Thurs), assignments (due Tues)
- grading; late and missed work policies
- Course expectations
  - Reading and exercises
  - Homework
  - Quizzes
  - Research paper
Homework
- Social structure. Read Preface, p. 1, and sections 1.1 to 1.3.2.
- Graph theory exercises.
- Brainstorm: examples of

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 ** Musical Social Networks (MSNs)
 ** Research in MCSN
+* Pajek
+** Installing
+** Using
+** Help
 * Course mechanics:
 ** [http://bit.ly/mcsn Wiki]:  for lecture notes, your collective contributions