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Academic Year 2001/2002
Seminar in Historical Methodologies
MUSC 519 SP
An examination of the disciplines and resources used to study the history of music and to study music-as-history; advanced training in the discursive and analytic tools appropriate to the gathering of data, the
formulating and testing of theories and the
presentation of results concerning music in an historical perspective.
MAJOR READINGS
Carl Dahlhaus, FOUNDATIONS OF MUSIC HISTORY, translated by J.B. Robinson, 1985, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Johannes Fabian, TIME AND THE OTHER, New York, Columbia University Press, 1983
Margaret T.
Hodgen, ANTHROPOLOGY, HISTORY AND
CULTURAL CHANGE, Tucson, 1974, University of Arizona Press
William H. McNeill, MYTH HISTORY AND OTHER ESSAYS, Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1986
Marshall Sahlins, ISLANDS OF HISTORY, Chicago,
University of Chicago Press, 1985
Kay Kaufman Shelemay, MUSIC, RITUAL, AND FALASHA HISTORY, East Lansing, Michigan, Michigan State University Press, 1989
Jan Vansina, ORAL TRADITION AS HISTORY, Madison, University of Wisconsin Press, 1985
Klaus P. Wachsmann, ed.; ESSAYS ON
MUSIC AND HISTORY IN AFRICA, Evanston, Northwestern University Press, 1971
EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS
Four brief research assignments; written critical review of a major study in historical ethnomusicology and/or anthropology; term research paper
Unless preregistered students attend the first class meeting or communicate directly with the instructor prior to the first class, they will be dropped from the class list. NOTE: Students must still submit a completed
Drop/Add form to the Registrar's
Office.
COURSE FORMAT:
Lecture
REGISTRATION INFORMATION
Level:
GRAD
Credit:
1
Gen Ed Area Dept:
NONE
Grading Mode:
Graded
Prerequisites:
NONE
SECTION 01
- Instructor(s): Zheng,Su
- Times: ..T.R.. 01:10PM-02:30PM; Location: OLIN327B
- Reserved Seats: (Total Limit: 6)
- SR. major: Jr. major:
- SR. non-major: Jr. non-major: SO: FR:
Special Attributes:
- Curricular Renewal: Reading Non-Verbal Texts, Writing
- Permission: Permission of Instructor Required
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