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MU620

Music and Meaning in Community Contexts

0.5 credits · Graduate

Fall 2016

Topics

  • Music-making and listening in communities
  • sociology and anthropology of music
  • cultural transmission
  • identity
  • heritage and appropriation
  • authenticity
  • formal and informal learning.

Readings

  • Lee Higgins, Community Music: In Theory and Practice (2012).
    Required
  • Christopher Small, Musicking: The Meanings of Performance and Listening (1998).
    Required
  • Lee Higgins and Patricia Shehan Campbell, Free to Be Musical: Group Improvisation in Music (2010).
    Recommended
  • Caroline Bithell, A Different Voice, a Different Song (2014).
    Recommended
  • Individual and class blogs.
    Other material
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