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Recent Trends in Ethnomusicology

Objectives

a) To identify the main topics, methodologies and theoretical perspectives within Ethnomusicology from the 1990s to the present day;
b) To acquire the ability to critically analyse ethnomusicological literature;
c) To develop the ability to identify ethical issues related to the topics covered within the seminar, as well as the application of theoreticaland methodological tools for specific case studies;
d) To develop communication skills to disseminate ethnomusicological knowledge;
e) To apply the skills and knowledge acquired to the development of a research project/essay in Ethnomusicology.

General characterization

Code

722021030

Credits

10.0

Responsible teacher

Pedro Miguel Meio-Tostão Roxo

Hours

Weekly - 3

Total - 280

Teaching language

Portuguese

Prerequisites

N/A

Bibliography

  • Bendix, R., Eggert, A., & Peselmann, A. (Eds.) (2012). Heritage regimes and the state. Universitätsverlag Göttingen.
  • Berger, H, M., & Stone, R. M. (Eds.) (2019). Theory for Ethnomusicology: histories, conversations, insights. Taylor and Francis.
  • Côrte-Real, S. J. (Ed.) (2010). Revista Migrações (Música e migração), 7.
  • Diamond, B., & Castelo-Branco, S. (Eds.) (2021). Transforming Ethnomusicology (2 vols.), Oxford UP.
  • Freitas, M. R. de, & Carvalho, J. S. (2022). Performing a culture, staging the revolution: Choral singing and traditional music as nation-building tropes in post-colonial Mozambique. Nations and Nationalism, 28(1), 211-230.
  • Nettl, B. (2015). The Study of Ethnomusicology: Thirty-three discussions. University of Illinois Press.
  • Rice, T. (2017). Modelling Ethnomusicology. Oxford UP.
  • Stokes, M. (2004). Music and the global order. Annual Review of Anthropology, 33, 47-72.

Teaching method

The curricular unit is taught in a seminar format by the teacher responsible and invited experts (3h) and is complemented by tutorials thatprovide scientific support to the students' projects (1h).
Each thematic session is divided into three parts:
1. Presentation of the topic addressed and identification of the main theoretical and methodological trends associated with it, as well asrelevant publications and authors;
2. Presentation of a case study, ideally part of the invited specialist's research;
3. Discussion of texts and debate with students, aiming to identify, among other things, the main research challenges and associated ethical issues.

Evaluation method

Continuous assessment - Annotated bibliography of five recent publications (1 page per publication);(20%), Participation and presentation of texts(30%), Research project/essay in Ethnomusicology: presentation and discussion in a colloquium (20%) and final document (30%, 15 pages)(50%)

Subject matter

1. Ethnomusicology at the turn of the 21st century: theories, methods and research trajectories
2. Who are we?: Music and Identities
3. Global imagination and the study of World Music
4. Festive policies in pandemic times
5. Music and forced migration
6. Gender of distortion: the case of women in rock in Portugal
7. Jazz and gender: dialogic ethnography as an ethnomusicological tool
8. How to build a nation through sound?: the case of Mozambique
9. Music and sexual dynamics: "drag queen performances" and "seduction as performance"
10. Touristification, sound environments and urban transformation
11. Theorizing musical heritage
12. Transforming Ethnomusicology: challenges and future proposals
13. Colloquium with student presentations