Week 10 (3/9-3/11): Auditory “illusions,” Musical Interaction as Distributed Cognition

Week 10 (3/9-3/11): Auditory "illusions," Musical Interaction as Distributed Cognition
Tuesday, 9 March

Book review: Shawn

Fales, Cornelia W. 1992. Auditory illusion and cognitive patterns in Whispered Inanga of Burundi. [dissertation]. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University.

All read:

Fales, Cornelia. 1995. "Acoustic Intuition of Complex Auditory Phenomena by "Whispered inanga" Musicians of Burundi." The World of Music 37/3:3-35.

Hutchins, Edwin. 1995. Cognition in the Wild, xi-xviii, 353-374. A Bradford Book, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Brinner, Benjamin. 1995. Knowing Music, Making Music: Javanese Gamelan and the Theory of Competence in Interaction, 1-11, 167-207. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
ML3838.B76 1995 (on reserve under this number).

Annotation assignment: Bring to class Tuesday EIGHT COPIES of a "fantasy annotation" of a study in cognitive ethnomusicology that you can imagine yourself doing. Describe the problem, methods, and expected results in five or six sentences.

Thursday, 11 March

Discuss annotations, your term projects, prospects for cognitive ethnomusicology

Monday, 15 March

Term projects and all other outstanding assignments due by 5:00 PM.