Recent Trends in Ethnomusicology - 2nd semester
Code
722021030
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Department
Ciências Musicais
Credits
10
Teacher in charge
Salwa Castelo Branco
Weekly hours
3 letivas + 1 tutorial
Teaching language
Portuguese
Objectives
1. Identifying the main recent trends in Ethnomusicology, from the 1990s up to the present, contextualizing them within the discipline and the Social Sciences.
2. Gaining familiarity with the main ethnomusicological approaches toward music and migration, one of the
central themes in recent ethnomusicological research.
3. Acquiring the indispensible conceptual tools for a critical perspective on the literature dealing with the
seminar theme.
4. Developing the capacity to problematize within the scope of the seminar theme and to apply the theoreticalnperspectives discussed to concrete cases.
5. Developing the capacity to apply the acquired knowledge to educational, social or artistic projects.
Prerequisites
None.
Subject matter
A. Offering a general perspective on the major recent trends in Ethnomusicology (music and identity,
globalization, music industries, etc.) from the 1990s up to the present, focusing especially on problems and theoretical perspectives.
B. Contextualizing recent trends within the historical trajectory of the discipline and the Social Sciences.
C. Analyzing critically ethnomusicological approaches to one of the central themes in the discipline since the 1990s: music and migration.
D. Focusing on selected case studies from the Lusophone and Hispanic worlds (for example, the Cape Verdean community in Lisbon, and the Cuban community in Barcelona).
E. Applying ethnomusicological approaches to concrete educational, artistic and social projects.
Bibliography
Baily, J. & Collyer, M. (2006) (Eds.). Music and Migration. Special number, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 32(2).
Cidra, R. (2010). Migração. In S. Castelo-Branco (Ed.), Enciclopédia da Música em Portugal no Século XX. Vol III (pp. 773-793). Lisboa: Círculo de Leitores/Campo das Letras.
Côrte-Real, M. (2010). Música e Migração. Número especial, Migrações: Revista do Observatório das Migrações, 7.
Kiwan, N. & Meinhoff, U. H. (Eds.) (2011). Music and Migration: A Transnational Approach. Special Issue in Music and Arts in Action, 3.
Ramnarine, T. (Ed.) (2007). Musical Performance in the Diaspora. Special Issue, Ethnomusicology Forum, 16(1).
Reyes, A. (1999). Songs of the Caged, Songs of the Free. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
Stokes, M. (Ed.) (1994). Ethnicity, Identity and Music: The Musical Construction of Place. Oxford: Berg.
Stokes, M. (2004). Music and the Global Order. Annual Review of Anthropology, 33: 47-72.
Teaching method
This course will be taught as a seminar. The main professor will present part of the contents. Guests will be invited to discuss case studies focusing on their own research. Students will present a critical reading of part of the literature. Discussion among all will be encouraged focusing on the literature, case studies and the applicability of the perspectives learnt to specific cases.
Evaluation method
Evaluation: participation in the seminar = 30%; an essay focusing on an aspect of the topic of the seminar = 40%; the elaboration of a small project aiming at applying the acquired knowledge within the social, educational or artistic realms = 30%.