Ethnomusicology 3 3106-ETNOM3
The topics of the ethnomusicology course 1 and 2, devoted to the traditions and contemporary musical culture of Poland and Europe, are extended in the third course by four issues: 1) contemporary phenomena (popular, professional) of music culture using ethnic material (folk, ethno-pop, folk-jazz et al.), taking into account individual creators and teams; 2) musical cultures of national minorities in Poland and ethnic borderlands on the basis of both historical sources, literature on the subject, as well as contemporary everyday and festival musical life, taking into account the existing discography; 3) ethnomusicology of the city, urbanethnomusicology (street music, ethnic traditions in the urban context, music in the context of migration); 4) traditions of local religious singing, with particular emphasis on still-current religious customs (e.g. Lenten and May singing, Corpus Christi processions).
5) The issues of musical nationalisms, 6) Research on the participation of women in musical life and the specific treatment of gender in musical practice, 7) Historical perspective in ethnomusicological research, 8) Applied ethnomusicology
In addition, a study of the latest national and foreign ethnomusicological literature from the 20th / 21st century, especially devoted to the indicated issues.
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Learning outcomes
The aim of ethnomusicology 3 is to expand knowledge about contemporary changes in musical traditions so as to co-create the sociology of music, absent in the course of musicology, characterized by a long period of rooting and a wide context of social functioning
Assessment criteria
active participation and written test from exercises and oral exam
Bibliography
Ludwik Bielawski: Tradycje ludowe w kulturze muzycznej, Warszawa 1999;Weronika Grozdew-Kołacińska(red.): Raport o stanie tradycyjnej kultury muzycznej, Warszawa 2014.Tomy roczników etnomuzykologicznych “Yearbook of the International Council for Traditional music”. P. Dahlig (red.):Traditional Musical Cultures in Central-Eastern Europe. Ecclesiastical and Folk Transmission, Warsaw 2009. P. Dahlig (red.): Folklor muzyczny w Polsce.Suplement do podręcznika Jadwigi Sobieskiej Polski folklor muzyczny, Warszawa 2006. Prace monograficzne i artykuły na temat muzyki folkowej.
Shadows in the Field. New Perspectives for Fieldwork in Ethnomusicology, Gregory F. Barz and Timothy J. Cooley, Oxford 2008,
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