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Marburg, Germany - Course Descriptions - Music and Identity in Postsocialist Countries
Course Information
| Subject: |
Anthropology (ANT) |
| Number: |
300 level |
| Language of Instruction: |
English or German |
Contact Hours and Credits
Semester Session: 48 contact hours, 3 semester credits
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Summary
AIMS AND CONTENT
This is the continuation of the corresponding course of the winter semester. Exercise in field research and in working on field research documents. One of the main themes of ethnomusicology is 'identity' (cultural, ethnic ...). Studying materials will include documents collected during previous research trips by the insti-tute staff and students, to Magyars in Transylvania, the Finnish minority in Russian Karelia, Gypsies in eastern Europe, and Latvians. Based on that documentation, we shall prepare a written or recorded presentation on music and identity.
Some aspects of Musical Anthropology to be studied:
- music and language (the tonal accents);
- music and mythology;
- music and familial/social transmission (legends, lullabies, social codification...);
- music and history (changes and evolution).
These aspects will be considered during three periods: The pre-Stalinian, the post-Stalinian and the contemporary (after the nineties).
ASSESSMENT METHODS
Each student must do a personal research as a contribution to our collective topic.
TEACHING METHODS
Seminar with group discussions, research travel, workshops, accompanied by directed reading and study on your own. Presentation and critiques of selected texts.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Marburger Studenten/Bernard Poulelaouen, 2004: Musik und Tradition der Migran-ten: ein Beitrag zu kulturellen und sozialen Überlegungen. DVD, Marburg: Fachgebiet Völkerkunde.
Rault, Lucie, 2000: Vom Klang der Welt: vom Echo der Vorfahren zu den Musikin-strumenten der Neuzeit. [Instruments de musique du monde, dt.] München: Freder-king und Thaler. 230 pp.
Sárosi, Bálint, 1967: Die Volksmusikinstrumente Ungarns. (Handbuch der europäi-schen Volksmusikinstrumente, Ser. 1, Bd 1) Leipzig: VEB Deutscher Verlag für Mu-sik. 146 pp.
Vīķis-Freibergs, Vaira (ed.),1989: Linguistics and poetics of Latvian folk songs : es-says in honour of the sesquicentennial of the birth of Krisjānis Barons. ((McGill-Queen's studies in ethnic history, 4) Kingston/Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press. xxi, 371 pp.
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