Module Code - Title:
MU4011
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CRITICAL ENCOUNTERS WITH WORLD MUSIC AND DANCE
Year Last Offered:
2025/6
Hours Per Week:
Grading Type:
N
Prerequisite Modules:
Rationale and Purpose of the Module:
This module is an introduction to the growing field of world music and dance studies and will introduce the student to a critical engagement with the category and how it is imagined in a number of cultural contexts as well as current areas and modes of research. Students will be exposed to a selection of world music practices in an academic and peformative context, providing them with an insight into some of the diversity of music and dance practices on this planet. The investigations presented in this module will be particularly informed by the international disciplines of Arts practice research, ethnomusicology and ethnochoreology. Students here will also be introduced to responsible and accountable academic and research practices.
Syllabus:
Issues addressed in this module will be taken from current research engagements with the concept of world music and dance and will examine a selection of diverse practices that are seen to constitute and sometimes challenge this category. These will critically engage historical narratives, conceptual structuring and evolving identities of the concepts and traditions in question. A particular Arts practice lens will be engaged so students can experience the aesthetic and structure of the tradition per formatively. Students will be develop writing and presentation skills associated with such academic engagement and be introduced to concepts of research as a creative, scholarly practice.
Learning Outcomes:
Cognitive (Knowledge, Understanding, Application, Analysis, Evaluation, Synthesis)
Identify some key concepts within the construction of world music and dance categories.
Examine a selection of international music and dance practices.
Demonstrate an ability to engage texts critically.
Generate responsible academic writing in an acceptable scholarly style
Affective (Attitudes and Values)
Contextualise their own diversity of music and dance practice within the context of the concept of world music and dance..
Display a performed understanding of an aspect or aspects of select music and dance practices.
Express their opinions in class discussion
Initiate an engagement with research as a creative scholarly practice
Psychomotor (Physical Skills)
reproduce a rudimentary level of embodied performance skills in a context previously unfamiliar to the student.
How the Module will be Taught and what will be the Learning Experiences of the Students:
This module will be taught through a mixture of lectures, tutorials and performance based laboratories. It will have traditional academic outcomes supplemented by an arts practice approach, giving the subject area an embodied relevance. As such this module has UL graduate attributes at it's core, focusing on knowledge based outputs supplemented with a embodied experience rooted in collaborative creative practice. Students will be able to articulate their understanding of the contemporary concept of world music and dance in a culturally engaged and responsible manner.
Research Findings Incorporated in to the Syllabus (If Relevant):
Prime Texts:
Broughton, S. et al. (eds) (1994)
World Music: A Rough Guide
, London: The Rough Guides
Bohlman, Philip (1988)
The Study of Folk Music in the Modern World
, Bloomington: Indiana
University Press
Cohen, S. J. ()
Methodologies in the Study of Dance
, The International encyclopedia of
dance : a project of Dance Perspectives Foundation, Inc. / Founding editor, Selma Jeanne
Cohen, Vol 4, New York: Oxford University Press
Varous Editors (1999)
The Garland Encyclopaedia of World Music
, Online
Nettl, Capwell, Wong, Turino, Bohlman (1997)
Excursions in World Music
, New Jersey: Prentice
Hall
Other Relevant Texts:
Titon, J.T. (1984)
Worlds of Music: An Introduction to the Music of the World's Peoples
, New
York: Schirmer
Nettl, Bruno (1990)
Folk and Traditional Music of the Western Continents
, New Jersey: Prentice
Hall
Schechner, Richard (2002)
Performance Studies: An Introduction.
, London: Routledge Keegan Paul
Programme(s) in which this Module is Offered:
Semester(s) Module is Offered:
Autumn
Module Leader:
matthew.noone@ul.ie