Lecture-Exam-Paper Schedule; Reading and Listening Assignments

Week Date Readings (EWM) and Listening (MLT)

1 M 1/27 Introduction to Ethnomusicology (read EWM xii–xv and 1–16 for
1/29)
W 1/29 Elements of Music: Media and Texture
F 1/31 Elements of Music: Melody and Harmony

2 M 2/3 Elements of Music: Time

W 2/5 Sub-Saharan Africa intro (EWM Ch. 8, “A Shona Mbira Performance”
up to “Africa General and Africa Specific”; MLT 8.1)
F 2/7 The Pygmies (EWM “Africa General and Africa Specific” up to “The
Mande…”, “A Sampling of Instruments” up to “Popular Music in the
Twentieth Century”; MLT 8.2, 8.6); SEMESTER PROJECT
NOTIFICATION DEADLINE

3 M 2/10 The Ewe and Mande (EWM “The Mande of West Africa” up to “The
Buganda Kingdom”; MLT 8.3, 8.4, 8.5)
W 2/12 Afro-Pop (EWM “Popular Music in the Twentieth Century” to chapter
end; MLT 8.7, 8.8)
F 2/14 Amerindian intro (EWM Ch. 12, “The World of Native American…” up
to “Aspects of the History…”; MLT 12.1, 12.2, 12.3)

4 M 2/17 Intertribal music & culture (EWM “North American Indian Days” up to The
World of Native American…”; “The Powwow Culture” up to “Women in
Native American Music”; MLT 12.4, 12.5)
W 2/19 Intertribal culture cont. (EWM “Aspects of the History…” up to “The
Powwow Culture”; “Women in Native American Music” to chapter end;
MLT 12.6, 12.7, 12.8)
F 2/21 EXAM 1

5 M 2/24 Latin American music: Mestizo and Aboriginal culture (EWM

Ch. 10, “Latin America: Definitions…” up to “Themes in Latin American
Music”; “Race/Ethnicity” up to “European Art Music”; “Wayno
(Huayno)” up to “Vallenato”; MLT 10.3, 10.6)
W 2/26 Latin American music: African-derived (EWM “African-derived Musical
Practices…” up to “Mestizaje/Mixture/Hybridity”; MLT 10.4)
F 2/28 Latin American music: popular traditions (EWM “Themes in Latin
American Music” up to “Race/Ethnicity”; “Mestizaje/Mixture/Hybridity”
up to “Wayno (Huayno)”; MLT 10.2, 10.5)

6 M 3/2 Latin American popular traditions cont.

W 3/4 Ethnic North America (EWM Ch. 13, “Themes in North American Music”
up to “Musical Particularity”; MLT 13.1)
F 3/6 American historical continuity (EWM “Musical Particularity” up to
 “Tecnobanda and Duranguense”; “Particular and General Musical Practices” up
to “The African American Contribution”; MLT 13.2, 13.3)

7 M 3/9 African American traditions (EWM “The African American Contribution” up

to “North American Musical Concepts”; MLT 13.4, 13.5);
SEMESTER PROJECT ROUGH DRAFTS DUE
W 3/11 African American traditions cont.
F 3/13 EXAM 2

8 M 3/16 SPRING BREAK

W 3/18 MORE SPRING BREAK
F 3/20 YET MORE SPRING BREAK

9 M 3/23 Gamelans in Java and Bali (EWM Ch. 7, “Javanese Music in Chicago” up
to “Music in Bali”; MLT 7.1, 7.2)
W 3/25 Music in Bali (EWM “Music in Bali”; up to “Four Kinds of Popular
Music”; MLT 7.3, 7.4)
F 3/27 Indonesian popular music (EWM “Four Kinds of Popular Music” to
chapter end; MLT 7.5, 7.6, 7.7, 7.8)

10 M 3/30 India: the Hindustani tradition (EWM Ch. 2, “Introducing South Asia” up
to “Carnatic Classical Musics”; MLT 2.1, 2.2, 2.3)
W 4/1 India: the Carnatic tradition (EWM “Carnatic Classical Musics” up to
“Bollywood”; MLT 2.6)
F 4/3 Indian popular practices (EWM “Bollywood” up to “Important Genres and
Regional Styles”; “The South Asian Diaspora” to chapter end; MLT 2.7);

11 M 4/6 Introduction to the Middle East (EWM Ch. 3, “Overview of the Region” up
to “Themes in Middle Eastern…”; “Music and Religion” up to “Popular
Musics…”; EWM 3.8, 3.9); SEMESTER PROJECTS DUE
W 4/8 Middle Eastern music theory (EWM “Themes in Middle Eastern…” up to
“Music, Healing, and Affect”; MLT 3.2, 3.3, 3.5)
F 4/10 Middle Eastern musical aesthetics and politics (EWM “Music and Sufism”
up to “Music and Religion”; “Popular Musics…” to chapter end)

12 M 4/13 Ethnomusicology Jeopardy

W 4/15 EXAM 3
F 4/17 Introduction to China (EWM Ch. 4, “General Characteristics of Music of
the Han People” up to “New Musical Directions…”)

13 M 4/20 Sizhu music (EWM “Music of the Han Nationality” up to “The Jingju
Theater”; MLT 4.1, 4.2)
W 4/22 Music for the People (EWM “New Musical Directions…” up to “Rock
Music”; MLT 4.5, 4.6)
F 4/24 Jingju video (EWM 106–12)
14 M 4/27 Jingju (EWM “The Jingju Theater” up to “General Characteristics of
Music of the Han People”; MLT 4.3, 4.4)
W 4/29 Introduction to Japan (EWM Ch. 6, “Hogaku Performance in Tokyo” up
to “A Kabuki Appreciation Class”; “The Religious Traditions” up to
“Gagaku”; MLT 6.3)
F 5/1 Hogaku and Gagaku (EWM “Gagaku” to chapter end; MLT 6.4, 6.5)

15 M 5/4 Kabuki (EWM “A Kabuki Appreciation Class” up to “Theater Music”;

MLT 6.1)
W 5/6 Noh (EWM “Theater Music” up to “The Religious Traditions”; MLT 6.2)

16 M 5/11 FINAL EXAM, 7:30–9:30 am

THIS SYLLABUS IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE!