Module Code - Title:
MU5022
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THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF MUSIC
Year Last Offered:
2025/6
Hours Per Week:
Grading Type:
N
Prerequisite Modules:
Rationale and Purpose of the Module:
An advanced level seminar that explores current issues in ethnomusicology. Students will be asked to actively engage with contemporary theoretical discourse in the field addressing such issues such as: music and identity; music and gender; music and nationalism; globalization and localization of traditional musics; music and minorities.
Syllabus:
Extensive critical reading is required. Discussion will focus on a new issue each week. Students will rotate in giving weekly presentations on an article or section of an assigned book to be shared and discussed with the rest of the class. A 5000 word essay will address one of the module's themes.
Learning Outcomes:
Cognitive (Knowledge, Understanding, Application, Analysis, Evaluation, Synthesis)
1.Demonstrate an advanced level of engagement with theoretical discourse in ethnomusicology
2. Identify the relevant literature in the field
3. Illustrate a critical awareness of key issues in the anthropology of music
4. Synthesise theoretical paradigms towards the production of original work
Affective (Attitudes and Values)
1. Challenge ethnocentricity in research
Psychomotor (Physical Skills)
1. Illustrate how music as performance can inform theory
How the Module will be Taught and what will be the Learning Experiences of the Students:
combination of lecture,, tutorial + lab and access to performance experiences
Research Findings Incorporated in to the Syllabus (If Relevant):
performance as research a key methodological approach
Prime Texts:
Post, Jennifer (ed.) (2006)
Ethnomusicology: A Contemporary Reader
, Routledge
Nettl, Bruno (2005)
The Study of Ethnomusicology: Thirty One Issues and Concepts
, University of Illinois Press
Other Relevant Texts:
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Semester(s) Module is Offered:
Module Leader:
aileen.dillane@ul.ie