History of Ethnomusicology
Code
722021018
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Department
Ciências Musicais
Credits
10
Teacher in charge
Maria de São José Côrte-Real
Weekly hours
3 letivas + 1 tutorial
Teaching language
Portuguese
Objectives
1. Identifying different approaches, authors, publications and main contexts throughout the history of Ethnomusicology.
2. Acquiring knowledge about scientific innovations throughout the History of Ethnomusicology.
3. Acquiring the main conceptual tools for a critical perspective on the literature selected.
4. Developing the capacity to relate political, social and musical data for scientific purposes.
5. Developing the capacity to apply the knowledge in the writing of an annotated chronology.
Prerequisites
None.
Subject matter
A. Global vision on different approaches of Ethnomusicology through time.
a) Comparative Musicology
b) Developments in the USA: music areas, acculturation and functionalism;
c) Developments in Europe: nationalism and research traditions;
d) John Blacking and the broadening of the scope of Ethnomusicology;
e) Music and language, urban musical practices, migration, popular music and music industries.
B. Perspectives, publications and authors with relevant production.
C. Critical ethnomusicological approaches within the identified domains.
D. Political and social aspects related with turning points in the history of the discipline.
E. Annotated thematic chronology.
Bibliography
Adler, G. (1885/1981). Umfang, [...] der Musikwissenschaft. Tr. E. Mugglestone. YTM, 13, 1-21.
Blacking, J. (1973). How Musical is Man? Seattle: UWP.
Castelo-Branco, S. (Ed.) (2010). Enciclopédia da Música em Portugal no Século XX. Lisboa: C. Leitores.
Christensen, D & Wachsmann, K. (Eds.) (1905/1975). Hornbostel Opera Omnia. Leiden: Brill.
Côrte-Real, M. (Ed.) (2010). Música e Migração. Migrações 7. Lisboa: O. Imigração.
Ellis, A. (1885). On the Musical Scales of Various Nations. Journal of the Society on Arts, 33, 485-527.
Malm, K. (1993). Music [...] and Mass Media. Ethnomusicology, 37(3), 33952.
Merriam, A. (1964). The Anthropology of Music. Evanston: NUP.
Miller, K. (2007). Jacking the Dial: Radio, Race, and Place in Grand Theft Auto. Ethnomusicology, 51(3), 402-38.
Nettl, B. (2005). The Study of Ethnnomusicology: 31 Issues and Concepts. Urbana: UIP.
Pegg, C. & al. (2001). Ethnomusicology. In S. Sadie (Ed.), The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. London: Macmillan.
Teaching method
This course will be taught as a seminar. A theoretical part (50%) includes oral presentations and discussions of case studies, critical approaches to relevant literature and the applicability of the learned perspectives to specific cases. The second part, practical (50%), follows accompanying the conception and written development of annotated thematic chronologies, in 3 versions.
Evaluation method
Evaluation, to negotiate at the beginning, develops in turn of the written work: 1 text about a meaningful idea of historical meaning (3000 cws) (15%); 1 text about a reference point, promoter of an historical trend of research (5000 cws) (15%); 3 versions of an annotated thematic chronology (15%+20%+20%); participation and oral presentation (15%).