Programme

Guest lecture: Horacio Curti (Universidade de Aveiro – Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya [ESMUC])

Literature: Conquergood, Dwight 2002. ‘Performance Studies: Interventions and radical research’ TDR 46/2, 145-156.

Presenting and representing music. An approach from applied ethnomusicology

This proposal relates to a project I coordinated for the Barcelona music museum related to traditional South Korean musical practices. It was a big project with a lot of reflection and work from ethnomusicology in different fields, from audiovisual to museum exhibition always with a focus on the ways of acquiring knowledge and experiencing in relation to music.

Week 3 – Friday 20 September

Presence

Discussion of issues in literature:

Brabec de Mori, Bernd 2015. ‘Sonic substances and silent sounds: An auditory anthropology of ritual songs’, Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America 13/2, 25-42.

Bates, Eliot 2012. ‘The social life of musical instruments’ Ethnomusicology  56/3 (Fall), 363-395.

Monday 23 September 23:59 hours: Submission deadline Blogpost 1 (1,500 words)

Week 4 – Friday 27 September

Discussion and peer review of issues in Blog 1

Week 5 – Friday 4 October

Power

Discussion of issues in literature:

Bloechl, Olivia A. 2008. Native American song at the frontiers of early modern music. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [Chapter One: ‘On colonial difference and musical frontiers: Directions for a postcolonial musicology’, 1-32.]

Introduction to Hahn, Tomie 2007. Sensational knowledge: Embodying culture through Japanese dance. Middletown: Wesleyan University Press, 1-21.

Monday 7 October 23:59 hours: Submission deadline Blogpost 2 (1,500 words)

Week 6 – Thursday 10 or Friday 11 October

Discussion and peer review of issues in Blog 2

Week 7 – Friday 18 October

Aural knowledge

Discussion of issues in literature:

Introduction to Ochoa Gautier, Ana María 2014. Aurality: Listening and knowledge in nineteenth-century Colombia. Durham: Duke University Press, 1-29.

Menezes Bastos, Rafael de 1999. ‘Apùap world hearing: On the Kamayurá phono-auditory system and the anthropological concept of culture’ the world of music 41/1 (Hearing and listening in cultural contexts), 85-93.

Feld, Steven 2015. ‘Acoustemology’ in D. Novak & M. Sakakeeny (eds) Keywords in sound. Durham: Duke University Press, 12-21.

Week 8 – Wednesday 23 October

Submission deadline Blogpost 3: a 2,500-word final blogpost in which the feedback and insights shared in previous blogs have been demonstrably processed.