Key facts

Type	Weekly Classes
Location	Oxford
Address	Ewert House Ewert Place Summertown Oxford
Dates	Tue 2 Oct to Tue 4 Dec 2012 Day: Tuesday Time of meeting: 2.00-4.00pm Number of meetings: 10
Subject area(s)	Music
CATS points	10
Fees	From £165.00
Application status	Course cancelled
Course code	O12P888MSW
Course contact	If you have any questions about this course, please email ppweekly@conted.ox.ac.uk.

Overview

The course offers an introduction to musics of the world. The focus is to understand how music is experienced culturally, socially, aesthetically, politically and economically from the indigenous peoples' perspective, using ethnographic methodologies.

Description

Musics of the World is an introduction to what has been academically known as “world music”. It features musical examples from the five continents around the world. The aim is to understand how music is experienced in different sociocultural contexts, but also how it is aesthetically evaluated, in contrast to one’s own culture.

To equip the students with the methodological tools in order to assess world musics, an introduction to the discipline of ethnomusicology will be offered: history, research methods and case studies will be explained. The students will broaden their understanding of music depending on cultural differences. Throughout the course, I will present examples from Greece, related to traditional dancing, music, and social events, Korean Opera (‘Pansori’), the case study of Ice Music from Norway, in which all the instruments are made by ice, but also from other areas around the globe.

Programme details

Week 1: Course overview, defininitions of musics of the world and introduction to Ethnomusicology and its methodologies
Week 2: Music in and as culture and the construction of "the Other". Introducing sociocultural understanding
Week 3: Musical Geographies (5 weeks) : 1) Asia
Week 4: 2) Oceania
Week 5: 3) Africa
Week 6: 4) The Americas
Week 7: 5)Europe
Week 8: Reflections: Ethnographic examples in Oxford
Week 9: Global trends and Internet music cultures
Week 10: Coursework presentations


Background Reading:
Blacking, J, How Musical is Man?, University of Washington Press, 1973
Malm, W., Music cultures of the Pacific, the Near East, and Asia. Upper Saddle River:Prentice Hall 1996
Nettl, B. Excursions in world music. Upper Saddle River: Prentice Hall 1997
Wade, B. Thinking musically: experiencing music, expressing culture. Oxford University Press 2004

Staff

Course aims

Course Aim:
To provide students the means towards cultural and social understanding of music

Course Objectives:
- To understand ethnomusicology as a branch of systematic musicology
- To focus on a holistic study of music, seen in a broad cultural context
- To explore musical geographies

Assessment methods

Essay project

Teaching methods

Direct teaching, studying of references, coursework, fieldwork exercises

Teaching outcomes

By the end of the course students can expect to:
Achieve a broad and detailed understanding of the musics of the world in cultural, social, political and aesthetic contexts
Develop knowledge and understanding of key concepts and working methods
Apply the acquired skills in researching, discussing, and writing

Fee options

Programme Fee

EU Fee: £165.00

Non-EU Fee: £165.00

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