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- WEEK 7 - Nov 1 - Of diversity and difference: identity, ethnicity, gender and the postcolonial in EM
- WEEK 8 - Nov 8 - Of discipline and (dis)obedience: power, politics and political economy
- WEEK 9 - Nov 15 - Of scores and beyond: analysis and performance
- WEST AFRICAN MUSIC ENSEMBLE
- Wahran
- Wahrane
- Wallaschek's 1893 account of Khoikhoi music in SW Africa ("Hottentot")
- War, violence, identity, Mahmoud Darwish, Yehuda Amichai (MEAS 330)
- Waslas
- Ways to Obtain Inexpensive Life Insurance Plan
- Web links
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- Week 10
- Week 10 (March 8-12) - Popular music, nationhood and nationalism
- Week 10 - March 09: Fieldwork and ethnography: critical perspectives 2. Film and video: philosophy and representation
- Week 10 - March 10&12: presentation and discussion week
- Week 10 - March 11. Filming and photography: representation and philosophy
- Week 10 - March 9: Religion, popular music and media
- Week 10 - Nov 15, 17, 19 - Music, politics and resistance
- Week 10 - Nov 25, 2013: TECHNOLOGY
- Week 10 - Nov 28, 2011: Music technology and global issues
- Week 10 - Nov 3-7: Music in Identity Politics
- Week 10 - Nov 7 & 9, 2011 - Transnational migrations and diaspora musics
- Week 10 - Nov 8: Popular musics: globalization and local identity in Iran and Central Asia
- Week 10 - November 23: Historical Ethnomusicology and studies of cultural memory / musical change and the impact of of scholarship on musical cultures
- Week 10 - November 7: Music and technology
- Week 10 - November 9: Music & religious ideology 2: power & social regulation
- Week 10 - Popular musics: globalism and locality
- Week 10 Critical perspectives and theories of ethnography 2
- Week 10 – March 16: Music and Islam in Iran
- Week 10 – March 22 and 24: Fine lines II: Pontecorvo’s The Battle of Algiers and other stories
- Week 10 – Monday, March 21: Analysis and Writing
- Week 10 – Nov 5 and 7: Werner Herzog: experiments in music and documentary
- Week 11
- Week 11 (March 15-19) - Popular music, conflict and violence
- Week 11 - Dec 2, 2011: HISTORY / ADVOCACY
- Week 11 - Dec 5, 2011: Historical ethnomusicology...
- Week 11 - March 16: Analysis and Writing
- Week 11 - March 16: Music, religion and identity
- Week 11 - March 17&19: Popular musics and new technologies
- Week 11 - March 18. Critical perspectives and theories of ethnography 2: knowledge and politics
- Week 11 - Music and gender
- Week 11 - Nov 10-14
- Week 11 - Nov 14, 16 & 18, 2011 - Music, politics and resistance
- Week 11 - Nov 15: Music and gender in Central and Inner Asia
- Week 11 - Nov 22, 24, 26 - Music, conflict and violence
- Week 11 - November 14: Global issues and World Music
- Week 11 - November 16: Music, religion & identity
- Week 11 Knowledge and politics
- Week 11 – March 23: Music and Islam in Morocco
- Week 11 – March 29 and 31: Evaluation week & film screenings
- Week 11 – Monday, March 28: Ethics 2: Ownership, repatriation and dissemination of ethnographic materials.
- Week 11 – Nov 14 (no class on Nov 12): Fine lines II: Gillo Pontecorvo’s ‘The Battle of Algiers’
- Week 12
- Week 12 (March 22-26) - Popular music in film
- Week 12 - March 23: Ethics 2: Ownership, repatriation and dissemination of ethnographic materials
- Week 12 - March 23: Music and religious ideology 2: power & social regulation
- Week 12 - March 24&26: Women, music and Islam
- Week 12 - March 25. Analysis and writing
- Week 12 - Music and migration
- Week 12 - Nov 17-21: Music and the Politics of Ownership and Representation
- Week 12 - Nov 21, 23 & 25, 2011 - Music, conflict and violence
- Week 12 - Nov 29, Dec 1, 3 - Worlds of film music
- Week 12 - November 21: Gender and race: feminist and postcolonial approaches in ethnomusicology
- Week 12 - November 23: Religion and musical aesthetic paradigms and experiences
- Week 12 Analysis and writing
- Week 12 – April 5 and 7: Ethics in documentary filmmaking
- Week 12 – March 30: Music and Islam in South Asia
- Week 12 – Monday, April 4: Course review and open discussion
- Week 12 – Nov 19 and 21: Ethics in documentary filmmaking
- Week 13
- Week 13 (March 29-April 2) - Popular music and religion
- Week 13 - April 1. Ethics 2: Ownership, repatriation and dissemination of ethnographic documents. Production and music industry
- Week 13 - March 30: Course review and open discussion
- Week 13 - Nov 24-28
- Week 13 - Nov 28, 30 & Dec 2, 2011 - Worlds of film music
- Week 13 - November 28: Historical ethnomusicology; the study of cultural memory
- Week 13 - November 30: Religion, popular music & the media
- Week 13 - The voice, sung poetry and religion in Central and Inner Asia: aesthetics and ethics
- Week 13 Ethics 2: Ownership, repatriation and dissemination of ethnographic materials. Production and music industry
- Week 13 – April 12: Final discussion.
- Week 13 – Monday, April 11: Class presentations of fieldwork projects
- Week 13 – Nov 26 and 28: Presentations and recap discussion.
- Week 14
- Week 14 (April 5-9) - Course recap week
- Week 14 - Dec 1-5
- Week 14 - Dec 3: Final recap discussion
- Week 14 - Revision week
- Week 1 (Jan 4-8) - Introduction
- Week 1 - Introduction : Ethnomusicology and the musics of Inner and Central Asia
- Week 1 - Jan 9: Introduction to the course, ethnomusicology and music in Italy
- Week 1 - January 6&8: Introduction
- Week 1 - Sept 13, 15, 17 - Introduction to the course
- Week 1 - Sept 6: "The Persianate World": a viable concept? Introduction to the musics of Iran and Central Asia
- Week 1 - September 14: Introduction to the course: defining Ethnomusicology
- Week 1 - September 8: The Persianate world: introduction to Iran and Central Asia
- Week 1 – Jan 11 and 13: Introduction to the course: documentary film and music
- Week 1 – Jan 12: Introduction to Islam in history, society and culture
- Week 1 – Monday, January 10: Introduction to the course
- Week 2
- Week 2 (Jan 11-15) - Globalization and (g)locality in the popular musics of the world
- Week 2 - Jan 16: Italian Opera: national identity and music industry
- Week 2 - January 12: Fieldwork and ethnography: an overview of approaches, methods and critical perspectives. Planning fieldwork
- Week 2 - January 12: Tracing boundaries and interconnections: "religion" and "music", "sacred" and "secular"
- Week 2 - January 13&15: Introduction 2
- Week 2 - January 15. Fieldwork and ethnography: an overview of approaches, methods and techniques. Planning fieldwork
- Week 2 - Music and society in Central Asia
- Week 2 - Sept 13: Music, politics and society in 20th century Central Asia
- Week 2 - Sept 14 & 16, 2011 - Key issues in the study of "world music"
- Week 2 - Sept 16, 2013: DISCIPLINE
- Week 2 - Sept 20, 22, 24 - Introduction to the anthropology of music
- Week 2 - Sept 26, 2011: Mapping Ethnomusicology - Ethnomusicological histories part 1
- Week 2 - Sept 8-12: Introduction to Music & Politics
- Week 2 - September 12: Ethnomusicological traditions and histories (1)
- Week 2 - September 14: Tracing boundaries & interconnections
- Week 2 - September 15: Music and society in 20th century Iran and Central Asia
- Week 2 - September 21: Mapping EM / Ethnomusicological histories
- Week 2 Fieldwork and ethnography: an overview of approaches. Planning fieldwork
- Week 2 assigned readings
- Week 2 – Jan 18 and 20: Sound in (documentary) film
- Week 2 – Jan 19: Muslim discourses on the legitimacy of music 1: the sama' controversy
- Week 2 – Monday, January 17: Fieldwork and ethnography: an overview of approaches, methods and critical perspectives; Planning fieldwork
- Week 2 – Sept 10 and 12: Introduction to an analysis of documentary film
- Week 3
- Week 3 (Jan 18-22) - Audiovisual media: worldwide uses, and issues of ethnographic representation
- Week 3 - Jan 23: Music, politics and society 1900-1945: labor songs, the fascist regime and the 'Resistenza'
- Week 3 - January 19: Fieldnotes & participant observation
- Week 3 - January 19: Music and religious ideology 1: religious sonic practices in “emic” concepts and discourses
- Week 3 - January 20&22: Muslim discourses on the legitimacy of music
- Week 3 - January 22. Critical perspectives and theories of ethnography
- Week 3 - Music and society in Afghanistan
- Week 3 - Oct 3, 2011: Anthropological inroads, ethnography and reflexivity - Ethnomusicological histories part 2
- Week 3 - Sept 15-19: Music & Nationalism
- Week 3 - Sept 19, 21 & 23, 2011 - Introduction to ethnomusicology and the anthropology of music
- Week 3 - Sept 20: Mountain music of Tajikistan (and Northern Afghanistan): folk and popular traditions, contexts and meanings
- Week 3 - Sept 23, 2013: ETHNOGRAPHY
- Week 3 - Sept 27, 29, Oct 1 - Traditions and post-traditions: challenging authenticity
- Week 3 - September 19: Anthropological inroads: fieldwork, ethnography and reflexivity; histories (2)
- Week 3 - September 21: Music & religious ideology 1: sonic practices in "emic" concepts & discourses
- Week 3 - September 22: Mountain music of Tajikistan (and northern Afghanistan)
- Week 3 - September 28: Anthropological inroads / Ethnomusicological histories 2
- Week 3 Critical perspectives and theories of ethnography
- Week 3 assigned readings
- Week 3 – Jan 25 and 27: Fine lines I: fiction and documentary
- Week 3 – Jan 26: Muslim discourses on the legitimacy of music 2: ancient treatises and contemporary debates
- Week 3 – Monday, January 24: Fieldnotes; Participant observation.
- Week 3 – Sept 17 and 19: Sound in (documentary) film
- Week 4
- Week 4 (Jan 25-29) - Popular musics and cultural identity: hybridization, appropriation and indigenization
- Week 4 - Jan 30: From Naples to San Remo: the classic 'canzone italiana' and its transformations
- Week 4 - January 26: Ethics 1: Research with human participants. Emic / Etic issues in ethnographic research
- Week 4 - January 26: Sacred texts: recitation, cantillation and chant
- Week 4 - January 27&29: The history of music in the Islamic Middle East
- Week 4 - January 29. Fieldnotes and participant observation. The experience of fieldwork: the researcher's position
- Week 4 - Music and society in Iran
- Week 4 - Oct 17, 2011: Neo-comparativism, ethnoscience, theory of practice in Ethnomusicology
- Week 4 - Oct 4, 6, 8 - Globalization and locality in the popular musics of the world
- Week 4 - October 5: Neo-comparativism, ethnoscience, and theory of practice in Ethnomusicology
- Week 4 - Sept 22-26: Music & Class
- Week 4 - Sept 26, 28 & 30, 2011 - Traditions and post-traditions: challenging authenticity
- Week 4 - Sept 27: Tajik-Uzbek art music (Shashmaqom and related genres): repertoires, structures, history and contemporary practice
- Week 4 - Sept 30, 2013: THEORY AND PRACTICE
- Week 4 - September 26: Neo-comparativism, ethnotheory, hermeneutics and theory of practice in ethnomusicology
- Week 4 - September 28: Sacred texts: recitation, cantillation & chant
- Week 4 - September 29: Tajik-Uzbek art music: Shashmaqom and related genres
- Week 4 Fieldnotes and participant observation. The experience of fieldwork: the researcher's position
- Week 4 assigned readings
- Week 4 – Feb 1 and 3: Observational cinema and the moving image in Anthropology I
- Week 4 – Feb 2: The history of music in the Middle East: science of music, cosmology and musical affects
- Week 4 – Monday, January 31: Ethics 1: Research with human participants; Emic / Etic issues in ethnographic research.
- Week 4 – Sept 24 and 26: Fine lines I: fiction and documentary
- Week 5
- Week 5 (Feb 1-5) - Transnational migrations and diaspora musics
- Week 5 - Feb 6: Italian folk music: practice, scholarship and revival
- Week 5 - February 02: Interviewing
- Week 5 - February 2: Devotion and mysticism
- Week 5 - February 3&5: Mystical Islam and Sufism
- Week 5 - February 5. Ethics 1: Human participants. Emic / etic issues in ethnographic research
- Week 5 - Oct 13, 15 - Audiovisual and electronic media: worldwide uses and issues of representation
- Week 5 - Oct 24, 2011: “Of insiders and outsiders”: experience and representation, hermeneutics and phenomenology
- Week 5 - Oct 3, 5 & 7, 2011 - Globalization and (g)locality in the popular musics of the world
- Week 5 - Oct 4: Mountain music of Tajikistan (and Northern Afghanistan)(continued): ritual and poetry among the Ismailis of Badakhshan
- Week 5 - Oct 7, 2013: INTERPRETATION AND EXPERIENCE
- Week 5 - October 19: Semiotic, hermeneutic and phenomenological approaches
- Week 5 - October 3: Music & identity
- Week 5 - October 5: Devotion & mysticism
- Week 5 - October 6: The formation of musical canons: power, nationhood and cultural heritage
- Week 5 - Popular traditions of Central Asia: contexts and meanings
- Week 5 Ethics 1: human participants. Emic / etic issues in ethnographic research
- Week 5 – Feb 8 and 10: Observational cinema and the moving image in Anthropology II
- Week 5 – Feb 9: Mystical Islam and Sufism 1
- Week 5 – Monday, February 7: Interviewing.
- Week 5 – Oct 1 and 3: Observational cinema and audiovisual ethnography in Anthropology, I
- Week 6
- Week 6 (Feb 8-12) - Marketing authenticity: traditional music in the world music market
- Week 6 - Art musics of Central and Inner Asia: the Tajik-Uzbek Shashmaqom and related traditions
- Week 6 - Feb 13: Engaged singer-songwriters and art song: 'cantautori' and 'canzone d'autore'
- Week 6 - February 09: The uses of film and video in ethnomusicology
- Week 6 - February 12. Interviewing
- Week 6 - February 9-14: Afghan Music Week
- Week 6 - February 9: Religion, commodification and the music market
- Week 6 - Oct 11: The voice, sung poetry and religion in Central and Inner Asia: aesthetics and ethics
- Week 6 - Oct 12 & 14, 2011 - Audiovisual and electronic media: worldwide uses and issues of representation
- Week 6 - Oct 18, 20, 22 - Music, identity and nationhood
- Week 6 - Oct 21, 2013: MEANING
- Week 6 - Oct 31, 2011: Musical meaning, semiotics and cognition
- Week 6 - Oct 6-10: The Political Economy of Music
- Week 6 - October 10: Musical meaning
- Week 6 - October 12: Religious music, commodification & the market
- Week 6 - October 13: The voice, sung poetry and religion: aesthetics and ethics
- Week 6 - October 26: Power, politics and political economy
- Week 6 Interviewing
- Week 6 – Feb 15 and 17: The moving image in Ethnomusicology I
- Week 6 – Feb 16: Mystical Islam and Sufism 2. A case study of the Mevlevi Ayin
- Week 6 – Monday, February 14: Video and photography: equipment and editing software.
- Week 6 – Oct 8 and 10: Observational cinema and audiovisual ethnography in Anthropology, II
- Week 7
- Week 7 - Feb 20: Rock, experimentalism and political struggle in Italy
- Week 7 - Nov 7, 2011: “Of diversity and difference”: Identity, ethnicity, gender and the postcolonial in Ethnomusicology
- Week 7 - November 2: Gender, ethnicity, identity and the postcolonial in Ethnomusicology
- Week 7 - Oct 13-17: Power, Control & Resistance 1
- Week 7 - Oct 17, 19 & 21, 2011 - Music, identity and nationhood
- Week 7 - Oct 18: Music politics and society in 20th century Iran
- Week 7 - Oct 25, 27, 29 - Music, religion and ritual
- Week 7 - Oct 28, 2013: IDENTITY
- Week 7 - October 17: Hegemony, power & politics
- Week 7 - October 19: DUE: Handing in & oral presentation of mid-term assignments
- Week 7 - October 20: Introduction to Persian art music
- Week 7 – March 1 and 3: The moving image in Ethnomusicology II
- Week 7 – Monday, February 28: Audio recording: equipment and editing software.
- Week 7 – Oct 17 (no class on Oct 15): Audiovisual ethnography in Ethnomusicology, I
- Week 8
- Week 8 (Feb 22-26) - The international music industry and cross-cultural collaborations
- Week 8 - Feb 27: Rap and Roots: antagonism and multicultural trends in contemporary Italian music
- Week 8 - February 23: Film and video: equipment and editing software
- Week 8 - February 23: Music and ritual
- Week 8 - February 24&26: Qur'an recitation and other religious sonic practices
- Week 8 - February 26. Audio recording: equipment and editing software
- Week 8 - Mountain music of Tajikistan and Northern Afghanistan: ritual and poetry among the Ismailis of Badakhshan
- Week 8 - Nov 1, 3, 5 - Musics of the world in the World Music market
- Week 8 - Nov 14, 2011: Power, politics and political economy
- Week 8 - Nov 4, 2013: POWER
- Week 8 - November 9: Analysis and performance
- Week 8 - Oct 20-24: Power, Control & Resistance 2
- Week 8 - Oct 24, 26 & 28, 2011 - Music, religion and ritual
- Week 8 - Oct 25 : Introduction to Persian art music: repertoire and performance practice, tradition, spirituality and ideology
- Week 8 - October 24: Analytical approaches; performance theory; the study of musical improvisation
- Week 8 - October 26: Music & ritual
- Week 8 - October 27: Regional and popular traditions of Iran
- Week 8 Audio recording: equipment and editing softwares
- Week 8 – March 2: Qur'an recitation and other religious sonic practices
- Week 8 – March 8 and 10: Documentary film and performative action: rockumentary
- Week 8 – Monday, March 7: Fieldwork and ethnography: critical perspectives 2; Video and photography: philosophy and representation.
- Week 8 – Oct 22 and 24: Audiovisual ethnography in Ethnomusicology, II
- Week 9
- Week 9: November 16: Music technology and global issues
- Week 9 (March 1-5) - Popular music, politics and resistance
- Week 9 - Introduction to Persian art music
- Week 9 - March 2: Audio recording: equipment and editing software
- Week 9 - March 2: Music, trance and healing
- Week 9 - March 3&5: Diversity in the Muslim world: popular, syncretic and local traditions
- Week 9 - March 4. Filming and photography: cameras and editing software
- Week 9 - March 5: Final exam
- Week 9 - Nov 18, 2013: ANALYSIS
- Week 9 - Nov 1: Regional traditions of Iran: the music of Iranian Khorasan
- Week 9 - Nov 21, 2011: Analysis and performance
- Week 9 - Nov 8, 10 - Transnational migrations and diaspora musics
- Week 9 - November 2: Music, trance & healing
- Week 9 - November 3: Popular music and media: the global and the local in Iran and Central Asia
- Week 9 - Oct 27-30
- Week 9 - Oct 31, Nov 2 & 4, 2011 - Musics of the world in the World Music market
- Week 9 - October 31: Musical change; the impact of scholarship on musical cultures
- Week 9 Filming: equipment and editing softwares
- Week 9 – March 15 and 17: Werner Herzog, and other experiments with music and documentary
- Week 9 – March 9: Diversity in the Muslim World: popular, syncretic and local tradition
- Week 9 – Monday, March 14: Guest lecturer: Dr. Anne Rasmussen, Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology, College of William and Mary (VA).
- Week 9 – Oct 29 and 31: Documentary film and performative action: rockumentary
- Weekly CCE meetings
- West African Music Ensemble Group Two
- What You Need To Know About The Commercial Real Estate Market
- What is "music of the Islamic world"? Four possibilities
- What is music of the Arab world?
- Whitemud Crossing Branch, Edmonton Library, March 9, 2008
- Who is the audience?
- Wikipedia articles on Arab music
- Winspear World Music sampler 2012
- Winter 2008 Field Methods Projects
- Wisdom Dunyo
- Wisdom Sokpoli
- Wisdom and Patrick Sokpoli
- With the Fireface 800
- With the MONA
- Women Performers
- Women Performers as Agents of Change: Perspectives from India, March 15-16 2010
- World Music Sampler 2011
- World music sampler: Saturday, November 15, 2008
- World music sampler: Sunday, Nov 21, 2010
- World music sampler: Sunday, Nov 22, 2009
- Writers
- Xinjiang
- Ya Rayah
- Ya Shadi al-Alhan
- Yahoo groups
- Yao Dunyo
- Yaogah Robert Agbodeke
- Yoruba identity in Nigeria
- Yoruba neo-traditional popular music
- You're Absolutely Not Late for Life Insurance Above 65 Years
- YouTube videos
- You Against The World - The Most Important Commercial Real Estate Tips Available
- Zeppelin