Musical Ethnographies

Undergraduate

The course evaluates a range of monographs written during the past four decades in which a scholar focuses their ethnographic research on/in music. "Music" is conceived broadly to include dance, ritual, and other performance. We read and discuss a monograph each week, identifying the particularities of musical ethnography. Students have the opportunity to conduct their own ethnographic fieldwork, focused in some sort of music-making event. HU Th 9:25am-11:20am