Module MUSI3571: ADVANCED ETHNOMUSICOLOGY

Department: Music

MUSI3571: ADVANCED ETHNOMUSICOLOGY

Prerequisites

• Introduction to Ethnomusicology.

Corequisites

• None.

Excluded Combination of Modules

• None.

Aims

• To study key texts and approaches to ethnomusicology.
• To draw on approaches from the musicology, anthropology, and ethnomusicology.
• To stimulate critical views of key positions and ethnomusicological frameworks.

Content

• This module studies the work and focus of key ethnomusicologists.
• It will build on approaches covered in Introduction to Ethnomusicology, i.e. the thinking of John Blacking, Alan Merriam and Bruno Nettl.
• It will introduce secondary figures that contributed to the overall development of ethnomusicology and their impact on more seminal figures like the above.
• Examples are drawn mostly from non-Western folk and popular music, though allusions to Western genres are not excluded.
• An attempt is made to reconcile the primarily case-study approach to aspects of world music studied in year 1 and the predominantly heavily theoretical viewpoint adopted in the pre-requisite module Introduction to Ethnomusicology.

Learning Outcomes

• To become familiar, at a deeper level than in Introduction to Ethnomusicology, with perspectives in ethnomusicology. To develop ethnomusicological concepts already introduced.

• Ability to employ interdisciplinary theoretical approaches, and develop students' own viewpoints with confidence.

• To develop informed critical perspectives

Modes of Teaching, Learning and Assessment and how these contribute to the learning outcomes of the module

• The module consists of 19 lectures, 3 seminars and 3 tutorials.
• The teaching takes place through weekly lectures with accompanying directed reading. The lectures are designed to focus attention on key issues and the appropriate strategies for evaluation and further discussion.
• The reading takes the form of seminar texts to be discussed in tutorials, culminating in papers given in larger seminars. This mode of study provides the student with the opportunity for self-directed learning.
• This format is also designed to ensure the active participation of students in the learning process, offering opportunities for discussion and the development of critical thinking.
• The assessment is designed to draw together these key elements of advanced study and provide an appropriate forum for testing the students achievements in acquiring and applying subject-specific knowledge.

Teaching Methods and Learning Hours

Summative Assessment

Formative Assessment:

Termly formative essays, 2000 words each.

■ Attendance at all activities marked with this symbol will be monitored. Students who fail to attend these activities, or to complete the summative or formative assessment specified above, will be subject to the procedures defined in the University's General Regulation V, and may be required to leave the University