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Through fieldwork — conducting interviews; attending, participating in, and observing performances; learning about local history, language, and customs; and doing musical analysis — ethnomusicologists study the ways in which individuals learn, create and understand music in different cultural communities, the means by which music is ...
Through fieldwork — conducting interviews; attending, participating in and observing performances; learning about local history, language and customs; and doing musical analysis — ethnomusicologists study the ways in which individuals learn, create and understand music in different cultural communities, the means by which music is ...
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Those interested in the music of a particular world region should also contact the corresponding area studies center at the University of Texas to inquire about funding options. Again, this must be done early; many deadlines for support come in late Fall or Winter for the following year. Of particular interest are Foreign Language Areas Studies (FL...
Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) are available for Portuguese study at UT or Amerindian language study. Application deadlines are due in mid-February. Summer Field Research Travel Grants from the Tinker Foundation—description on-line. Application deadline for receipt of a complete application due mid-February. Many other grantsare available...
Music History Diagnostic All students who begin graduate study at the Butler School of Music are required to take demanding diagnostic entrance exams testing their undergraduate-level knowledge of Western art music; successful completion of the Masters degree will involve enrolling in remedial classes as necessary to compensate for any deficiencies...
General Description of the Program. Ethnomusicology is a highly interdisciplinary academic field. It combines the formal-structural study of music with ethnographic analysis, historical investigation, socio-cultural anthropology, and techniques from other disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. Students of ethnomusicology frequently take...
Erlmann, Veit African Stars: Studies in Black South African Performance. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991. Nightsong: Performance, Power, and Practice in South Africa. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995. Music, Modernity, and the Global Imagination: South Africa and the West.New York: Oxford, 1999 Moore, Robin Nationalizing Blackn...
2 days ago · Fieldwork. American Folklife Center: Cultural Documentation Guidelines. These teaching and training guidelines provide practical advice and insights into the process of conducting a local-level field documentation project. These guides cover essential topics such as: project planning; research ethics from the perspectives of the fields of ...
- Maureen Russell
- 2016
Sep 9, 2008 · In this new edition of Shadows in the Field, renowned ethnomusicologists explore the roles they themselves act out while performing fieldwork and pose significant questions for the field: What are the new directions in ethnomusicological fieldwork? Where does fieldwork of “the past” fit into these theories?
fieldwork research. Part 2 includes three fascinating chapters that, I am sure, will soon become required reading for all ethnomusicology students. Jeff Todd Titon's chapter examines the na-ture of knowledges (explanations versus understanding), traces the shifting para-digms of ethnomusicology, discusses repre-
Sep 9, 2008 · Ethnomusicology is in a critical moment that requires new perspecitves on fieldwork—perspectives that are not addressed in the standard guides to ethnomusicological or...
