Week 7 (2/16-2/18): The Issue of Mental Representation in Ethnomusicology

Tuesday, 16 February

Book review: Bret

Hopkins, Pandora. 1986. Aural Thinking in Norway: Performance and Communication with the hardingfele. New York, NY: Human Sciences Press. ML3704.H66 1986.

All read:

Blom, Jan-Petter, and Tellef Kvifte. 1986. "On the Problem of Inferential Ambivalence in Musical Meter." Ethnomusicology 30/3:491-517.

Feld, Steven. 1981. "'Flow Like a Waterfall': The Metaphors of Kaluli Musical Theory." Yearbook for Traditional Music 13:22-47.

Hopkins, Pandora. 1982. "Aural Thinking," Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Music, editors Robert Falck, and Timothy Rice, 143-161. Toronto, Ontario: University of Toronto Press.
ML3799.C76 1982.

No annotation assignment, BUT: bring outline and abstract of your term paper.

 

Thursday, 18 February

TBA

 

 

Schedule for Rest of Quarter

Week

Dates

Topic(s)

Guest or Book Review

7

2/16-2/18

Ethnomusicology: Mental Representations of Music

Bret: Hopkins, Aural Thinking in Norway

8

2/23-2/25

Ethnomusicology: Representations of African Rhythm

Lennard: Agawu, African Rhythm

David Temperley & Daniel Avorgbedor, guests

9

3/2-3/4

Psychology: Social & Cognitive Perspectives

Instructor out of town on 3/4

10

3/9-3/11

Psychology: Psychophysical and Gestalt perspectives, A Look Ahead

Shawn: Fales dissertation