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Seminar in Historical Methodologies
MUSC519 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: ...W... 01:10PM-04:00PM;     Location: OLIN327B
Reserved Seats:    (Total Limit: 15)
SR. major:    Jr. major:
SR. non-major:    Jr. non-major: X   SO: X   FR: X

Special Attributes:
Permission:    Permission of Instructor Required

Last Updated on MAR-24-2000


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