Research Seminar in Ethnomusicology - 2nd semester
Code
73202103
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Department
Ciências Musicais
Credits
10
Teacher in charge
João Soeiro de Carvalho
Weekly hours
2
Teaching language
Portuguese
Objectives
Upon completion of this course, students should: a) To be familiar with the main theoretical and methodological paradigms in Ethnomusicology, looking at the main current trends in Social and Human Sciences, with special emphasis on Anthropology and Cultural Studies. b) Be able to discuss epistemological, theoretical, methodological and ethical issues central to ethnomusicological research. c) To be able to analyze the publications representative of the main theoretical paradigms of the discipline, and to know the main international journals of the area. d) To be able to frame and discuss theoretically and methodologically, in the field of Ethnomusicology, a research project located in the modern concerns of the discipline.
Prerequisites
None.
Subject matter
a) Discussion of the main epistemological changes in Ethnomusicology, with emphasis on postmodernism, postcolonialism and critical theory.
b) Analysis of the impact of the adoption of new epistemological perspectives in the ethnomusicological approach of central processes in music in the last twenty years such as: the globalization of musical production and consumption; expressive culture and its relation to the formation of communities in the diaspora, to the interaction between them, and to their integration into host societies; the expressive culture resulting from the process of the colonial encounter; the music and its relationship with the media; the integration of the music of subalterns and peripheries in the global market; the maintenance, appropriation and concealment of Western aesthetic hierarchies; the reproduction or contestation of power relations through music.
c) Critical analysis of the main works where current paradigms of ethnomusicology are patent.
Bibliography
Bohlman, Philip & Radano, Ronald (eds.) (2000). Music and the Racial Imagination. Chicago: Chicago
University Press.
Born, Georgina & Hesmondhalgh D, (eds) (2000). Western Music and its Others: Difference, Representation
and Appropriation in Music. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Erlman, Veit (1999). Music, Modernity and the Global Imagination. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Slobin M. (1993). Subcultural Sounds: Micro- musics of the West. Hanover, CT: Wesleyan University Press.
Stokes, Martin (2004). Music and the Global Order, Anual Review of Anthropology 33: 47-72.
Teaching method
This course unit adopts a principle of collaborative, student-centered learning. Creativity and reflection, as well as collaborative discussion, are stimulated. The starting point for this method is the exposition of the main topics by the teacher. Then there is a critical discussion of the same between the teacher and the doctoral students. Presentations of critical reviews of some of the most relevant publications by the students are presented, which are case studies for the discussion of relevant topics.
Evaluation method
Evaluation is carried out through:
. Continuous assessment of class participation (20%)
. Critical reviews presented orally in class (30%)
. Written essay delivered at the end of the semester (50%)