Identity and Expressive Culture
Code
722001035
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Department
Sociologia
Credits
10
Teacher in charge
Salwa Castelo Branco
Weekly hours
3 letivas + 1 tutorial
Teaching language
Portuguese
Objectives
Prerequisites
None.
Subject matter
Bibliography
Bourdieu, P. (2001) “The Aristocracy of Culture”, In Miller, D. Consumption. Critical Concepts in the Social Sciences, London, Routledge.
Howes, D. (1996) “Introduction. Commodities and Cultural Borders”, in Howes, D. ed., Cross Cultural Consumption. Global Markets Local Realities, London, Routledge.
Miller, D. (1998) “Coca-Cola: a Black Sweet Drink from Trinidad”, in Miller, D. Ed., Material Cultures. Why Some Things Matter, London, The University of Chicago Press.
Erlmann, Veit (1996) “Aesthetics of the Global Imagination: reflections on World
Music in the 1990’s”, Public Culture 8: 467-88.
Feld, Steven (1994) “From Schizophonia to Schismogenesis: on the Discourses and Commodification Practices of ‘World Music’ and ‘World Beat’” in Steven Feld e Charles Keil, Music Groves. Chicago, University of Chicago Press.
Guilbault, Jocelyne (2007) Governing Sound: the Cultural Politics of Trinidad’s Carnival Musics. Chicago, The University of Chicago Press.
Teaching method
The seminar combines expositions by the instructor, students’ presentations and discussions.
Evaluation method
The evaluation is based on complementary elements: the student’s active participation and critical engagement with the debated themes; two oral presentations focusing two of the course’s required texts; two written papers on the same texts not exceeding three to four pages each; and a written paper not exceeding the twelve pages focusing on
one of the main themes either of the first or second part of the course.