| CODE | ANT1045 | ||||||
| TITLE | Anthropology of Music and Dance | ||||||
| UM LEVEL | 01 - Year 1 in Modular Undergraduate Course | ||||||
| MQF LEVEL | 5 | ||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 4 | ||||||
| DEPARTMENT | Anthropological Sciences | ||||||
| DESCRIPTION | This unit will introduce students the the anthropological study of musical worlds (including ethnomusicology and dance). Music and dance have long been a topic of anthropological interest. In this study unit we will try and look at some of the basic questions posed in the discipline. Through a select number of case studies we will also seek to contextualise musical worlds in relation to their social function connecting cultural traditions (new and old) with social praxis. Study-unit Aims: The unit aims to provide a greater understanding of the social dimensions to music and dance. Through the course of the study unit students will be expected to develop a critical engagement with the concepts developed in the anthropology of music and dance through their application to concrete case studies. Learning Outcomes: 1. Knowledge & Understanding By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: 1.) recognise the social function of music and dance; 2.) analyse the inter-relationship between form and function in music; 3.) quote some of the basic texts and apply several theoretical approaches in ethnomusicology and the anthropological study of music and dance. 2. Skills By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: (1) conduct limited ethnographic fieldwork in the study of musical worlds; (2) have improved their time management in addressing assessment tasks; (3) analyse a dance or musical formation in order to explore social structure and change; (4) interpret and evaluate social theories of music and dance. Main Text/s and any supplementary readings: Main Texts - Nettl, Bruno. 2006. The Study of Ethnomusicology: Thirty-one Issues and Concepts. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. [Short-loan Collection] - Washabagugh, W. (ed.) (1998) The Passion of Music and Dance: Body, Gender and Sexuality. Bloomsbury Academic. Supplementary Texts - Rice, Timothy. 2014. Ethnomusicology: A Very Short Introduction. New York: Oxford University Press. - Stock, Jonathan. 1996. World Sound Matters. London: Schott Educational Publications. - Washabagugh, W. (ed.) (1998) The Passion of Music and Dance: Body, Gender and Sexuality. Bloomsbury Academic. - Dridd, W. (2004) Anthropology and the Dance. University of Illinois Press. |
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| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Lecture and Fieldwork | ||||||
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| LECTURER/S | Lasse Ullven Jean-Paul Baldacchino Michael Pio Deguara Ranier Fsadni |
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