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| − | '''Collaborative discography of ME music for ME studies survey courses''' | + | '''SAMR project: Collaborative discography of ME music for ME studies survey courses''' |
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| | + | New topic: "Music and politics" for MES |
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| − | * [[Collaborative discography goals | Goals]]
| + | ''An experiment in collaborative scholarly authorship'' |
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| | + | * [[Collaborative discography goals | project goals]] |
| | + | * [[Collaborative discography objectives | project objectives]] |
| | + | * [[Collaborative discography pilot | the pilot project]] (click here to contribute!) |
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| − | Objectives:
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| − | # Provide a resource for ME studies survey courses. Most ME scholars subscribe to the bulletin, which often contains resource material for teaching. Thanks to my predecessors, Ginny Danielson and Anne Rasmussen, music has achieved a much higher profile in the Bulletin, and many ME teachers (mainly specialists in language, literature, history, poli sci, and religion, focusing on text) are eager to incorporate music into their courses. Past articles certainly point the way. But the current project is slightly different: we aim to provide a synopsis of musical areas and suggest new recordings which are readily available, and of good scholarly quality.
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| − | # Achieve broad (not comprehensive) coverage. We’re not trying to create an encyclopedia, but only trying to provide a broad spectrum of types, a sampler. It seems to me that we should aim to sample primarily within the core areas—North Africa, Arab ME, Turkey, and Iran. Adjoining areas often touched upon when surveying cultures and history of the ME can also be considered: Islamic West and East Africa, Central Asia…
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| − | # Suggest readily available CDs (e.g. only what can be purchased via Amazon or other major suppliers, not local or out of print productions). If the music isn’t accessible, there’s little practical point to reviewing or recommending it. Ideally, such CDs should be “scholarly” (prepared with an eye to ethnography, including comprehensive notes), but as we all know such CDs are unfortunately scarce.
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| − | I hope that this project not only proves to be useful for ME studies, but also as an experiment in collaborative academic writing (rather rare in the humanities at least) – a dozen or more authors will contribute a paragraph or two each.
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| − | Procedure:
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| − | # Specify a topic within ME studies
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| − | (1) Define your musical domain, by specifying one or more of the following, as appropriate, and explain why this musical domain would support study of the specified topic.
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| − | ''Geographical location''. City, or rural area, or other geographical area or region (e.g. “Cairo”, “Oran”, “South Sinai”, “Black Sea coast”, “Tehran”), for music closely connected to place. Broader categories (“Arab world”) may be required for mediated music (see below).
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| − | ''Media location''. Media channel(s)/scope (e.g. “Iranian national radio and TV”, “Commercial Turkish satellite TV”, CD/cassette market of Egypt…) for musical domains inhabiting primarily a media space defined by broadcast area or language (i.e. precise location is not appropriate).
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| − | ''Identity''. Cultural-national identity (ethnic, religious, genealogical, linguistic) of musical users/producers (esp. for minorities, e.g. “Kurds of Iraq”, “Berbers of Morocco”, “Beduins”, “Copts of Egypt”), for music connected to such identities (religion could be specified for music connected with religious worship, or specific to particular religious groups)
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| − | ''Class''. Socio-economic position (when this needs to be differentiated within the broader category of cultural-national identity) (e.g. “workers”, “farmers”, “elite/court music”)
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| − | ''Period''. Historical period, either contemporary, or a specific period in the near or distant past. Writing about the distant past is fine, provided you can locate some contemporary CDs providing approximate instances.
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| − | ''Type''. Genre, style, context of use (when you intend to write about specific genres, styles, or contexts – e.g. “Arabesk”, “Iraqi maqam”, “wedding songs”, “fisherman songs”; otherwise this can be left out).
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| − | * (2) Briefly (2-4 sentences) describe this musical domain, providing whatever background information you deem appropriate, and including one or two important references.
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| − | * (3) List 1-3 available CDs (with full publication information), plus two sentences of commentary on each: (a) a sentence of description; (b) a sentence of critique. Alternatively, embed this review material in the description itself (which can then be 400 words). You don’t have to provide instances of every musical type within the domain. Think about which CDs might enhance an introductory ME studies course. CDs should all be available on Amazon, or something comparable. Please don’t list CDs which are only available in the ME, or which are out of print; such CDs can’t be ordered for ME studies courses.
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| | + | ''For future use (publication of more extensive discographic resource integrating ethnomusicology within ME studies curricula):'' |
| | + | * [[Collaborative discography procedure | Integrating Ethnomusicology within ME studies]] |
