Week 9 (3/2): Prototypes and Auditory Streams

Week 9 (3/2): Prototypes and Auditory Streams
Tuesday, 2 March

Divide:

DeWitt, Mark F. 1998. "Louisiana French Songs as Categories," inThe Cajun and Zydeco Music and Dance Scene in Northern California: Ethnicity, Authenticity, and Leisure, 229-283. Berkeley, CA: University of California, Berkeley.

Wegner, Ulrich. 1993. "Cognitive Aspects of amadinda Xylophone Music From Buganda: Inherent Patterns Reconsidered." Ethnomusicology 37/2:201-241.

Along with Wegner 1993, for those unfamiliar with auditory stream segregation:

Bregman, Albert S. 1993. "Auditory Scene Analysis: Hearing in Complex Environments," in Thinking in Sound: The Cognitive Psychology of Human Audition, editors Stephen McAdams, and Emmanuel Bigand, 10-36. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
BF323.L5.T45 1993 (on reserve).

No annotation assignment, BUT: bring outline and abstract of your term paper if you haven't already.

Thursday, 4 March

Instructor out of town—start working on "fantasy abstract" for a study in cognitive ethnomusicology of your choosing, to present on Thursday, 11 March