The Ohio State University
Music 950.01
Seminar in Musicology: Cognitive Ethnomusicology
Winter Quarter 1999
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Due Date: |
The presentation of book in class will be due according to where its topic falls in the course schedule; the written review will be due the following week. |
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Subject: |
The book to review should be written by an ethnomusicologist and address questions of perception and/or cognition. You may choose from a list of likely books provided below, or propose one not on the list weeks in advance of the presentation in class. |
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Assignment: |
Class presentation: approximately one-half hour of exposition and discussion, including (if possible) a short audio or video example of the music in question. Both in-class and written presentations should give an overview of the book's content and a critical assessment of its strengths and weaknesses. In your critique, you must (1) evaluate the book as a contribution to cognitive studies; (2) address existing published reviews of the same book; and (3) establish your own point of view on the book. |
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Length: |
7-10 pages, plus bibliographic references (Chicago social science format). Submit two copies of the assignment. |
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Weight: |
25% of final grade |
Below is an open-ended list of suggested books to review. Titles will be assigned on a first come, first served basis.
Arom, Simha. 1991. African Polyphony and Polyrhythm: Musical Structure and Methodology. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press. ML350.A761 1991.
Brinner, Benjamin. 1995. Knowing Music, Making Music: Javanese Gamelan and the Theory of Competence in Interaction. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ML3838.B76 1995.
Feld, Steven. 1990.
Sound and Sentiment: Birds, Weeping, Poetics,
and Song in Kaluli Expression,
2nd ed. Conduct and Communication Series, General Editors.
Dell Hymes, Gillian Sankoff, and Henry Glassie, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
DU740.42.F44 1990.
Hopkins, Pandora. 1986. Aural Thinking in Norway: Performance and Communication with the hardingfele. New York, NY: Human Sciences Press. ML3704.H66 1986.
Kartomi, Margaret J. 1990. On Concepts and Classifications of Musical Instruments. Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology, editors. Philip Bohlman, and Bruno Nettl, Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press. ML460.K36 1990.
Keil, Charles. 1979. Tiv Song. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press. ML3760.K38.
Seeger, Anthony. 1987. Why Suyà Sing. Cambridge Series in Ethnomusicology, General Editor. John Blacking, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
Nattiez, Jean-Jacques. 1990. Music and Discourse: Toward a Semiology of Music, translator Carolyn Abbate. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. ML3797.N371 1990.
Quigley, Colin. 1995. Music From the Heart: Compositions of a Folk Fiddler. xiii, 273 pp. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press. ML418.B413Q5 1995.
Rouget, Gilbert. 1985. Music and Trance: A Theory of the Relations Between Music and Possession. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press. ML3920.R681 1985.
Sakata, Hiromi Lorraine. 1983. Music in the Mind: The Concepts of Music and Musician in Afghanistan. Kent, OH: Kent State University Press. ML345.A35S24 1983.
Stone, Ruth. 1982. Let the Inside Be Sweet: The Interpretation of Music Events Among the Kpelle of Liberia. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press. ML3760.S8.