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MUSC519
Seminar in Historical Methodologies
MUSC519 SP
| Section | Class Size | *Available | Times |
|---|
| 1 | 12 | 6 | Times: ..W.... 1:10PM-4:00PM; |
*The number of spaces listed as available is based on class seats open for
the current phase of registration. Some seats may be taken in previous
phases while others may be held out for subsequent phases of registration.
(Last Updated on Wed Mar 4 05:00:40 EST 1998
)
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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
ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS and/or COMMENTS
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: Seminar
REGISTRATION INFORMATION
Level: GR Credit: 1.00
Prerequisites:
None
- Section 01
- Zheng, S
- Times: ..W.... 1:10PM- 4:00PM;
- Grading Mode: A/F
- Registration Preference (1 high to 6 low, 0=Excluded) Sr: 0, Jr: 0, So: 0, Fr: 0
- No Major Preference Given
- Permission of Instructor Required.
Last Updated on MAR-03-1998
About the Photo:
Reference:
Diagram Group. MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS OF THE
WORLD. New York: Facts on File, Inc., 1976
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