Course Syllabus

Course Outline

Week 1: Where Else Would Music Be?

9/28     No class

Readings:

  • Syllabus

Assignment:

  • Music autobiography, (Highly recommended to write during canonical class period).

Audiovisual

  • Watch “Clipe Oficial Mangueira 2019,” YouTube playlist.

 

Music autobiography posted on Canvas due Wednesday, September 29, 11:59pm.

 

9/30     Introduction: Listening Critically

Readings:

  • White, Bob W. 2012. “The Promise of World Music: Strategies for Non-Essentialist Listening.” Chapter 10 in Music and Globalization: Critical Encounters, edited by Bob W. White, Indiana University Press, pp. 189–210.

Audiovisual:

  • “Kuvarira Mukati,” Thomas Mapfumo, YouTube playlist

 

Week 2: Encountering World Music

 

10/5     Critical Reflections on the world and music

Readings:

  • Zheng, Su. 2010. “The Formation of a Diasporic Musical Culture as a Site of Contradiction.” Chapter 2 in Claiming Diaspora: Music, Transnationalism, and Cultural Politics in Asian/Chinese America, Oxford University Press, pp. 27–48 (48–61 suggested).
  • Taylor, Timothy D. 2017. “World Music Festivals as Spectacles of Genrefication and Diversity.” Chapter 6 in Music in the World: Selected Essays, University of Chicago Press, pp. 114–26.

Audiovisual:

  • “La Jaula de Oro,” Los Tigres del Norte, Jaura de Oro, 1984, Spotify and Apple Music playlists
  • “Norteña del Sur,” Nortec Collective, Tijuana Sound Machine, 2008, Spotify and Apple Music playlists

 

10/7     Distance and Difference

Readings:

  • van Klyton, Aaron. 2016. “All the Way from…Authenticity and Distance in World Music Production.” Cultural Studies 30, no. 1: 106–28.

Audiovisual:

  • “Madan,” Salif Keita, Moffou, 2002, file on Canvas.

 

First playlist track is due Sunday, October 10, by 8pm.

 

Week 3: Constructing World Music

 

10/12   Industry Discourses

Readings:

  • Whitmore, Aleysia K. 2016. “The Art of Representing the Other: Industry Personnel in the World Music Industry.” Ethnomusicology 60, no. 2: 329–55.

Audiovisual:

  • “Nijaay,” Orchestra Baobob, Made in Dakar, 2007, Spotify and Apple Music playlists.
  • “Bissa,” Fatoumata Diawara, Fatou, 2011, Spotify and Apple Music playlists.

 

10/14   Hybridity

Readings:

  • Appert, Catherine M. 2016. “On Hybridity in African Popular Music: The Case of Senegalese Hip Hop.” Ethnomusicology 60, no. 2: 279–99.

Audiovisual:

  • “Presidents d”Afrique,” Positive Black Soul, 2007, YouTube playlist.
  • “Sunugaal,” Didier Awadi, Sunugaal, 2008, Spotify and Apple Music playlists.

 

 

Week 4: Music and Society

 

10/19   Race and Gender

Readings:

  • Gaunt, Kyra Danielle. 2006. “Education, Liberation: Learning the Ropes of a Musical Blackness” in The Games Black Girls Play: Learning the Ropes from Double-Dutch to Hip-Hop. New York: New York University Press, pp. 37–55.
  • Haynes, Jo. 2010. “In the Blood: The Racializing Tones of Music Categorization.” Cultural Sociology 4, no. 1: 81–100.

Audiovisual:

  • “Amazing Grace,” Aretha Franklin, Amazing Grace, 1972, Spotify and Apple Music playlists.

 

10/21   Politics and Labor

Readings:

  • Hofman, Ana. 2020. “Disobedient: Activist Choirs, Radical Amateurism, and the Politics of the Past after Yugoslavia.” Ethnomusicology 64, no. 1: 89-109.
  • Tatro, Kelley. 2014. “The Hard Work of Screaming: Physical Exertion and Affective Labor among Mexico City’s Punk Vocalists.” Ethnomusicology 58, no. 3: 431–53.

Audiovisual:

  • “Ay Carmela,” Le Zbor choir, 2015, YouTube playlist.
  • “Presos,” Rhuckuss, Rhuckuss, 2011, YouTube playlist.

 

 

 

 

Week 5: Music and Nationalism

 

10/26   Samba

Readings:

  • Vianna, Hermano. 1999. “Samba of my Native Land” in The Mystery of Samba: Popular Music & National Identity in Brazil. University of North Carolina Press, pp. 77–92
  • Guest artist: Dill Costa, samba instructor.

Audiovisual:

  • “Pelo Telefone,” Bahiano e Coro, 1917, Spotify and Apple Music playlists.

 

10/28   Nationalism and Eurovision (no class, professor conference day)

Readings:

  • Bohlman, Philip Vilas. 2011. “Music and Nationalism Why Do We Love to Hate Them?” in Focus: Music, Nationalism, and the Making of the New Europe. 2nd ed. New York: Routledge, pp. 1–22.

Audiovisual:

  • “Måneskin,” Zitti e Buoni, 2021 Eurovision winner, YouTube playlist.
  • “Party for Everybody,” Buranovskiye Babushki, 2012 Eurovision, YouTube playlist.

 

 

Week 6: Local and Global Musics

 

11/2     Folk Song and the Nation

Readings:

  • Tang, Kai. 2021. “Singing a Chinese Nation: Heritage Preservation, the Yuanshengtai Movement, and New Trends in Chinese Folk Music in the Twenty-First Century.” Ethnomusicology 65, no. 1: 1–31.

Audiovisual:

  • China’s 2018 CCTV Spring Festival Gala, YouTube playlist

 

11/4     Globalized Rituals

Readings:

  • Qureshi, Regula. 2013. “Sufism and the Globalization of Sacred Music” in The Cambridge History of World Music, ed. Philip V. Bohlman. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 584–605.

Audiovisual:

  • Peter Gabriel feat. Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan: Performance of “Signal to Noise” at the VH1 Honors Concert, 1996 on YouTube playlist
  • Abida Parveen and Rahat Fateh Ali Khan: “Chaap Tilak.” Coke Studio [Pakistan] Season 6 on YouTube playlist.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Week 7: Music and Health

 

11/9     Healing

Readings:

  • Gill, Denise. 2017. “Melancholic Modes, Healing, and Reparation” in Melancholic Modalities: Affect, Islam, and Turkish Classical Musicians. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, pp. 154–182.

Audiovisual:

  • “Saba Taksim,” Neyzen Tevfik, Spotify and Apple Music playlists.

 

11/11   Music and Pandemics

Readings:

  • McConnell, Bonnie B., and Buba Darboe. 2017. “Music and the Ecology of Fear: Kanyeleng Women Performers and Ebola Prevention in the Gambia.” Africa Today 63, no. 3: 29–42.
  • Stone, Ruth M. 2017. “‘Ebola in Town’: Creating Musical Connections in Liberian Communities during the 2014 Crisis in West Africa.” Africa Today 63, no. 3: pp. 79–97.

Audiovisual:

  • “Kanyeleng 2013. What it takes to defy cultural stigma,” YouTube playlist.
  • “Ebola in Town,” Shadow, 2014, Spotify and Apple Music playlists.

 

Week 8: Musicmaking

 

11/16   Gamelan

Readings:

  • Bakan, Michael. 2012. “Indonesian Gamelan Music: Interlocking Rhythms, Interlocking Worlds,” in World Music: Traditions and Transformations, 2nd ed. New York: McGraw Hill, pp. 85–114.

Audiovisual:

  • “Ketawang: Puspawarna,” Court Gamelan, Yogyakarta, 1971, file on Canvas.
  • “Jaya Semara,” Gong Kebyar of Sekolah Tinggi Seni Indonesia, file on Canvas.
  • “The Wayang Puppet Theatre” UNESCO, YouTube playlist.

 

11/18   Salsa

Readings:

  • Berríos-Miranda, Marisol. 2002. “Is Salsa a Musical Genre?” in Situating Salsa: Global Markets and Local Meaning in Latin Popular Music, ed. Lise Waxer, Routledge, pp. 23–50.
  • Guest artist: Victor Garcia, salsa instructor

Audiovisual:

  • “Cali Pachanguero,” Grupo Niche, No Hay Quinto Malo, 1984, Spotify/Apple Music.

 

Thanksgiving Break (11/22-11/26)

 

Week 9: Musical Communities

 

Concert reports due Monday, November 29, 11:59pm

11/30   Bollywood

Readings:

  • Shresthova, Sangita. 2008. “Dancing to an Indian Beat: ‘Dola’ Goes My Diasporic Heart.” Chapter 9 in Global Bollywood: Travels of Hindi Song and Dance, edited by Sangita Gopal and Sujata Moorti, University of Minnesota Press, pp. 243–63.

Audiovisual:

  • Netflix: Lagaan, watch first 30 minutes.

12/2     Jazz

Readings:

  • Jackson, Travis A. 2012. “Toward a Blues Aesthetic.” Chapter 5 in Blowin’ the Blues Away: Performance and Meaning on the New York Jazz Scene. UC Press, pp. 109–135.

Audiovisual:

  • “Parker’s Mood,” Charlie Parker, Spotify and Apple Music playlists.

 

Playlist final project due Wednesday, December 8, 11:59pm