MUSIC 315 (Seminar in World Music)
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DATE
Week 1
Tuesday 1/24 study
questions
Thursday 1/26 study
questions
Week 2
TOPIC
Introduction, description of course materials
and website; folk, art, and popular music;
discussion of Assignment #1
Tuesday 1/31 study
questions
Thursday 2/2 study
questions
Ethnomusicology: history, definitions, and
scope; Hornbostel/Sachs system of
instrument classification
Week 3
Ethnomusicology: Fieldwork and the
Tuesday 2/7 study questions
Ethnographic Interview
Assignment #1 Due
Week 4
Ethnomusicology: Ethnography: Writing up
and Writing Down
Tuesday 2/14 study
questions
Ethnomusicology: Ritual, Community,
Identity, and Change: Some Theoretical
Approaches
Thursday 2/16 study
Global Ethnomusicology: Popular Music,
LISTENING
Bakan chpt. 1 (pg.1-8)
Bakan chpts. 3 & 4 (pg.
Elements of music: rhythmic modes vs. time
33-56)
signatures; cyclicity, texture, and the effects
Extra reading on the
of form
elements of music
Elements of music: tonality vs. modality,
Ellis's "cent" system of tonal organization,
the overtone series, and pentatonicism
Thursday 2/9 study
questions
READ
Supplementary
Listening
Examples
Supplementary
Bakan chpt. 5 (pg. 57-74) Listening
Examples
questions
Media, Diaspora, and the Global Cultural
Soundscape
Week 5
EXAM 1 (Elements of Music;
Ethnomusicology)
Tuesday 2/21 EXAM 1
Assignment #2: Discussion of critical
analysis, verbal reasoning, researching, and
writing (IMPORTANT!)
Quick link to examples of
citation formats (Chicago
Manual of Style)
Tuesday 2/28 study
questions
Introduction to the Middle East: Geography,
History, and Culture
Map of the Modern Middle East
Bakan chpt. 12 (pg. 273314)
Thursday 3/1 study
questions
Music and Religious Practice: Islam and the
Adhan, Islamic Mysticism
Thursday 2/23 study
questions
Week 6
Sachedina, "What is
Islam?" in Spencer 1998:
pg.174-179.
Marcus, 2007, chpt 4: pg.
60-70
The Middle East: Instrumentation, ensembles Marcus, 2007, chpt 7: pg.
Week 7
96-100
(takht and firqa), rhythmic modes
Tuesday 3/6 study questions
Touma, 1996: chpt. 6, pg.
(iqa)
109-140
Demonstration: Darabukka Technique
Thursday 3/8 study
questions
Final paper topic and
thesis statement due
Middle East: Melodic modes (maqam)
Marcus, 2007, chpt 2: pg.
16-42
Touma, 1996: (chpts. 23), pg. 17-37 and pg. 3845
Supplementary
Listening
Examples
M.1
Week 8 NO CLASSES
Week 9
Tuesday 3/20 study
questions
Thursday 3/22 study
questions
Week 10
Tuesday 3/27 study
questions
Thursday 3/29 EXAM 2
Final paper bibliography
due
SPRING BREAK (enjoy!)
Music and Gender:
Egyptian women’s dance, ghawazi, zaar,
women and Sufism
Musical Appropriation: Popular music
traditions
Hakim
Rai and the chebs
Ceza, Sezen Aksu, Aynur
Modern Egyptian film music
Manuel, chpt 5: pg. 141159
Marcus, 2007, chpt 10:
pg. 155-174
Garland, 2002, pg. 269272 and 635-640
Bakan, 2007: 267-278
Levine (2008): "Muslim
Metal"
The Middle East in Diaspora
Arabs in Detroit, Michigan
Turks in Germany
Shelemay, 1998: pg. 64103
Rasmussen, 1997: pg. 73100
Horrocks and Kolinsky,
1996: pg. xi-xxvii
Kürsat-Ahlers, 1996: pg.
113-135
Listening
Examples
EXAM 2 (The Middle East )
Music of India: Introduction to History,
Religion, and Culture
Tuesday 4/3 study questions Map of India
Week 11
Thursday 4/5 study
M.3. (a-e);
Bakan 3-10 and
3-17.
India, Video: Raga: Ravi Shankar (1991)
Bakan chpt. 8 (pg. 115156)
I.1
questions
Week 12
Tuesday 4/10 study
questions
India: Music and Tradition
"Sina ba Sina;" tala, and the guru/shishya
parampara: tabla demonstration
Supplementary
Listening
Examples
I.3
Thursday 4/12 study
questions
Music as Cultural Identity: Raga and form
I.2, I.3, &
Bakan 2-11, 212
Week 13
Tuesday 4/17 study
questions
Final paper outline due
Thursday 4/19 study
questions
Week 14
Musical Change: India and the West:
Intercultural Contact and Influences
Latin America: A Cultural Mosaic
Tuesday 4/24 study
questions
Mestizo Music of Latin America: Peru and
the Altiplano
Thursday 4/26 study
questions
Final paper 1st draft due
Victor Turner's "Communitas" and
"Liminality" applied to Latin America
video: Qoyllur Rit'i: A Women's Journey
(1998 Wissler/Escobar)
Diaspora and African Retentions in the New
World: Focus: Brazil, samba, bossa nova,
Week 15
Tuesday 5/1 study questions and forró
Click here for Samba (batucada)
Turino, "Music in Latin
America," in Nettl, 3rd ed.
2001: pg. 227-254.
Clickable map of South
America
Listening
Examples (L)
L. 1-3.
L.4-L.7
Instrumentation
Thursday 5/3 study
questions
Religion and Musical Syncretism: Cuba
(Santeria and son), Salsa, and Latin Jazz
Week 16
Tuesday 5/8 Last Day of
EXAM III: India and Latin
Class
Final Written Assignment America/Caribbean (non-cumulative)
Due
Extra Credit Due
3-hour Exam Period:
Oral Presentations of
Final Written
Assignment
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3-hour Exam Period:
Oral Presentations of Final Written
Assignment
Bakan Chpt 11
L.8-L.11