Module Code - Title:

MU4008 - SPECIAL TOPICS IN ETHNOMUSICOLOGY

Year Last Offered:

2025/6

Hours Per Week:

Lecture

1

Lab

3

Tutorial

1

Other

0

Private

5

Credits

6

Grading Type:

N

Prerequisite Modules:

Rationale and Purpose of the Module:

This module is designed to give advanced undergraduate students the opportunity to explore a particular topic in an in-depth way not possible in introductory or survey modules. Specific topics will be chosen by the faculty member coordinating the module and will generally be research based. It is intended to serve as a recruitment stepping stone taking 4th year undergraduates into considering post-graduate studies in the international field of ethnomusicology.

Syllabus:

Students will work primarily in a tutorial and collaborative setting developing and implementing current, higher level research led by individual faculty members. Students will support primary investigators as collaborators in making research and its dissemination at a professional level. Students will engage individual, departmental and institutional research strategies and gain an insight into best practices in ethnomusicological research in a wider, collaborative context.

Learning Outcomes:

Cognitive (Knowledge, Understanding, Application, Analysis, Evaluation, Synthesis)

- Students will be able to play an active role in the construction of professional research outputs. - Students will be able to generate original data - Students will be able to synthesise data in collaborative contexts. - Students will employ and develop research methodologies in a collaborative context.

Affective (Attitudes and Values)

- Students will be able to synthesise data collected in a number of contexts. - Students will cooperate in the service of complex research questions. - Students will be able to integrate their research into larger, institutional strategies.

Psychomotor (Physical Skills)

N/A

How the Module will be Taught and what will be the Learning Experiences of the Students:

Students in this module will engage in professional, current research in the field of ethnomusicology (an ethnographic field that was previously characterised by the independent researcher) in a collaborative setting. This module will draw students to more current collaborative models of practice that are intrinsic to the graduate attributes of the University, in particular in its 'collaborative', 'proactive' and 'responsible' headings.

Research Findings Incorporated in to the Syllabus (If Relevant):

Prime Texts:

Post, Jennifer (2003) Ethnomusicology: A Research and Information Guide , Routledge

Nettle, Bruno (2005) The Study of Ethnomusic ology: Thirty-one Issues and Concepts , University of Illinois Press

Do¿antan-Dack, Mine (2015) Artistic Practice as Research in Music: Theory, Criticism, Practice , Routledge

Stone, Ruth (2007) Theory for Ethnomusicology , Routledge

Barrett, Margaret (2014) Collaborative Creative Thought and Practice in Music , Ashgate

Schueler, Nico (2005) Theory and (Ethno-) Musicology: from Interdisciplinary Research to Teaching , Peter Lang AG

Other Relevant Texts:

Haynes, Jo (2014) Music, Difference and the Residue of Race , Routledge

Welch, Graham & Ioulia Papageorgi (Eds.) (2015) dvanced Musical Performance: Investigations in Higher Education Learni , Ashgate

Mackinlay, Elizabeth, Brydie-Leigh Bartleet, Katel yn Barney (2009) Musical Islands: Exploring Connections Between Music, Place and Research , Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Easter-Jones, Jason (2014) Music Commodities, Mar kets, and Values: Music as Merchandise , Routledge

Programme(s) in which this Module is Offered:

Semester(s) Module is Offered:

Spring

Module Leader:

Niall.Keegan@ul.ie