Topic 1: Class Introduction

Week 1:

Watch: What gives music its identity? Anija Kamat, TEDx Talks (2015).

Read:

Liudmyla, Rakityanska. 2021. ‘The History of World Music Art within the Context of Relationship between the Emotional and the Rational’. Osvìtologìâ, no. 9: 21–28.

Explore: Musical Instruments Classification (Sachs-Hornbostel) – Part I, Jolin Jian, July 07, 2020.

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Topic 2: What is ‘music’?

Week 2:

Read: Chapter 1: Fundamentals of Music from:

Allen, Ray, Douglas Cohen, Emily Fairey and Miriam Deutch. 2014. Music Appreciation: Its Language, History, & Culture. The Conservatory of Music at Brooklyn College.

Watch: A different way to visualize rhythm, John Varney, TED-Ed (2014).

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Topic 3: Indian Classical Music and Official Representation

Week 3:

Read:

Nettl, Bruno. “Hindustani music.” Encyclopaedia Britannica, June 4, 2014.

__________. “Tala.” Encyclopaedia Britannica, February 7, 2022.

__________. “Raga“. Encyclopaedia Britannica, January 31, 2022.

“Tabla“. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 9 January 2015.

“Karnatak music“. Encyclopaedia Britannica, April 1, 2020.

Explore: Raaga: A World of Music website.

Week 4:

Watch: Ocean of Melody: Part I, Indian Diplomacy, January 12, 2015.

Ocean of Melody: Part II, Indian Diplomacy, January 12, 2015.

 

 

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Topic 4: Indonesian Gamelan and Musical Heritage Preservation

Week 5:

Read: Linear Notes of the album [pp. 1-9]: From Kuno to Kebyar Balinese Gamelan Angklung, Smithonian Folkways (2011).

Explore: Bali Music & Dance Website

Watch: Sacred Sounds of Bali: Gamelan Music, directed by Vaughan Hatch (2019)

A day in the Life of a Balinese Music Conservationist, directed by Vaughan Hatch (2019)

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Topic 5: Flamenco and Cultural Appropriation

Week 6:

Read: Bennahum, N. Devorah. “Flamenco.” Encyclopedia Britannica, October 27, 2021.

Britannica, T. Editors of Encyclopaedia. “Roma.” Encyclopedia Britannica, October 5, 2021.

Manuel, Peter, 2021. ‘The Rosalia Polemic: Defining Genre Boundaries and Legitimacy in Flamenco.’ Ethnomusicology, no. 65(1): 32-61.

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Topic 6: Mbira Music and Zimbabwe Independence Movement

Week 7:

Explore: mbira.org

Read: What is Mbira?;
Explore one musician under “Mbira musicians”;
Explore one mbira maker under “Mbira Makers”

Listen to:
Thomas Mapfumo 1: The War Years, Afropop Worldwide, May 7, 2015.

Watch:
Thomas Mapfumo: The Path to Exile, Afropop Worldwide, April 8, 2013.

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Topic 7: Arab Music, Orientalism and Nationalism

Week 8:

Read: Edward Said on Orientalism, Media Foundation Interview Transcript (2005).

Read: AlKaei, Zaher, and Mats B. Kussner, 20. ‘Taqsim as Creative Musical Process in Arab Music‘, Front. Psychol., 11 June 2021.

Explore: Maqamworld.com

Week 9: 

Watch: Umm Kulthum: A Voice Like Egypt, directed by Omar Sharif and Virginian Danielson (1996)

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Topic 8: Colonialism and Music in Latin America

Week 10:

Read: Ikibe, S. O. 2014. ‘The Impacts of Slavery and Colonialism on African Traditional Music and Dance Performances’. Creative Artist: A Journal of Theatre and Media Studies 8 (2): 144–62.  https://www.ajol.info/index.php/cajtms/article/view/110634

Listen to: Cumbia: The Musical Backbone of Latin America, NPR Music, February 18, 2015.

Week 11:

Watch:

Havana Club Rumba Sessions: La Clave produced by Havana Club (2016)

Havana Club Rumba Sessions: La Clave – The Drum by Havana Club (2016)

Havana Club Rumba Sessions: La Clave – The Sacred and the Profane by Havana Club (2016)

Havana Club Rumba Sessions: La Clave – The Voice by Havana Club (2016)

Havana Club Rumba Sessions: La Clave – The Dance by Havana Club (2016)

Havana Club Rumba Sessions: La Clave – The Future by Havana Club (2016)

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Topic 9: Music and Indigeneity

Week 12:

Read/Watch/Listen to: From the Andes to the Arctic: Explore American Indian Heritage through Music, Smithonian Folkways Recordings.

Read: Protocols for Native Americans Archival Materials.

Explore: American Indian Songs of Lament and Protest, Folkways Records (1981)

Listen to: RPM Podcast Indigenous Music Culture. Choose and listen to one podcast and report on it.

Topic 10: World Music and Inter-Cultural Dialogue

Week 13:

Read: Langenkamp, Harm, 2017. “Contested Imaginaries of Collective Harmony: The Poetics and Politics of “Silk Road” Nostalgia in China and the West.” in China and the West: Music, Representation and Reception, edited by Hon-Lun Yang and Michael Saffle, 243-264. University of Michigan Press.

Watch: The Music of Strangers: Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble directed by Morgan Neville (2015).