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MUSC519

Seminar in Historical Methodologies
MUSC519 FA

Not Currently Offered

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

Last Updated on MAR-22-1999




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