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Course overview: See also Blackboard
• Texts: Post & pdf’s
• Requirements
• Blackboard: syllabus, readings, reading notes,
discussions, learning modules
• Goals
• Topics
• Definitions
• Survival skills: “
How to read for musicological content”

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Course overview: Stream I: historiography
• What is ethnomusicology?
• Where does it come from?
• Who were/are its exemplars?
• What are its key insights or contributions?
• What have been/are currently its usages?
• What are its pitfalls?
• What is its relevance to other music studies?

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One definition:
Grove Dictionary of Music and MusiciansGrove Dictionary of Music and Musicians
“The study of social and cultural aspects of music
and dance in local and global contexts. Specialists
are trained primarily in anthropology and in music,
but the multidisciplinary nature of the subject leads
to different interpretations.”

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Another definition:
WikipediaWikipedia
“Ethnomusicology (from the Greek ethnos
= nation and mousike = music), formerly
comparative musicology, is the study of
music in its cultural context, cultural
musicology. It can be considered the
anthropology or ethnography of music.”

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Another definition:
Course websiteCourse website
“The study of musical
behavior in its original
contexts, and its history,
philosophies, methods, and
areas of concentration.”
Relation to other humanistic disciplines

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Some historical factors: scholarly andSome historical factors: scholarly and
intellectual points of originintellectual points of origin
• Philology & linguistics
• Anthropology
• musikwissenschaft

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Opening-out the definition and
skill-set:

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For discussion: examples of music-in-
context, and methodologies for their
study:

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Bela Bartok, Transylvania, c1906

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Unidentified guru leading pakawaj class,
UCLA c1975

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Curt Sachs (1881-
1959), author of
Zeitschrift für
Ethnologie

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Stephen Feld in Papua, New
Guinea, c1982

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Francis Densmore (1867-1957) recording, c1916.
Film

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Alice Fletcher with Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce,
pre-1904

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Edward Bunting (c1792): the Belfast Harp Festival

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RalphVaughan
Williams
Percy Grainger

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Cecil Sharpe,
William Kimber, & the Headington
Quarry Morris Dancers, c1895

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Mac Rebennack a/k/a Dr John the Night
Tripper (b1940, New Orleans)

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Bob Margolin & Jerry Portnoy with the
Muddy Waters Blues Band, 1976

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Johnny Otis (1921-2012) & the Dreamers

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Ry Cooder (b1947), Compay Segundo
(1907-2003) & Buena Vista Social Club

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Fieldwork: defining musical communities
Course overview: Stream II - practice

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Practice assignment
Fieldwork observation

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• By age group
• By gender
• By ethnicity
• By media of transmission
• By musical function
• By economic infrastructure
• By genre specifics
• By language, dialect, or creole
• By event
• By taxonomic sources
• By venue
• Other?
Conceptualizing fieldwork: defining musical
communities

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For Thursday: Geertz discussion
See article & Reading Notes