Ethnomusicology Fieldwork
Objectives
The learning outcomes of the curricular unit of Ethnomusicology: Fieldwork Research lead the learners:
- To develop a brief research project, prepared in the previous semester (in the course unit Ethnomusicology: Theory and Method),testing field methods and techniques effectively;
- To note and test strategies of information collection and data construction for interpretative analysis;
- To test organization and interpretation of data from ongoing, theoretically framed and academically tracked fieldwork research;
- To discuss and test problems of ethnographic writing framed in specialized literature;
- To be able to present original field research.
General characterization
Code
01100430
Credits
6.0
Responsible teacher
Maria São José Corte-Real Gonçalves Ferraz de Oliveira Soeiro Carvalho
Hours
Weekly - 4
Total - 168
Teaching language
Portuguese
Prerequisites
Prerequisites: Having finished the curricular unit Ethnomusicology: Theory and Method
Bibliography
- Barz,G.F.(2008).Confronting the field(note) in and out of the field. In G. F. Barz & T. J.Cooley (Eds.).Shadows in the field. New perspectivesfor fieldwork in ethnomusicology (pp. 206-223).Oxford University Press
- Castelo-Branco, S.(2008). A categorização da música em Portugal: Política, Discursos, Performance e Investigação. Etno-folk: RevistaGalega de Etnomusicoloxia,12,13-29.
- Côrte-Real, M. S. J.(2010). Revendo cidadania: Migração e fado no jogo de identidades nos EUA. In M. S. J. Côrte-Real (Org.), RevistaMigrações - Número temático Música e Migração, 7,73-98.
- Lassiter, L. E.(2021). Collaborative ethnography: Trends, Developments, and Opportunities. In B. Diamond & S.Castelo Branco (Eds.),Transforming Ethnomusicology (pp.25-42). Oxford University Press.
- Mendes, P.(2016).Learning itineraries & Transnational relations initiating the Hot Clube de Portugal's Jazz School. In M. S. J. Côrte-Real eP. Moreira (Eds.),Music and Human Mobility (pp.145-149). Henry Coanda Air Force Academy.
Teaching method
This is a research curricular unit that articulates theoretical and advanced practice components, with extramural fieldwork. In the first two blocks a brief period of fieldwork is prepared and carried out, to collect information to answer the research question, theoretically framed, proposed in the meantime, and to test the hypothesis previously presented. In the last two blocks, data processing is carried out, including the transcription of interviews and other records made, and the writing of two types of texts, respectively a data organization report (text 1) and a short ethnographic written text (text 2). Given the open and eminently personal nature of the unit, readings may be added and work may be developed around different techniques and field situations.
Evaluation method
Continuous assessment - Action work and ethnographic writing in accordance with a negotiable proportion at the beginning of the classes(100%)
Subject matter
After listening to the maintenance of the students' research interests, the unit Ethnomusicology: Field Research is developed in fourblocks accompanying the student’s work before, during and after the period working in the field:
1) Research Question (Before starting fieldwork): Identification of the theme; Adjustment of themes; Reconstruction of researchquestions and hypotheses; The interest of the researcher.
2) Research Techniques (In the Field): The researcher and the field; Observation and recording; Field notes; Designing and carrying outobservations, contacts, informal conversations and interviews.
3) Data Construction and Analysis (During and after the Field): Organization of information; Theoretical framework and proposedperspective; Construction of reports; Discussion.
4) Ethnographic Writing (After the Field): Ethnographic politics and poetics; Own choices; Accompanied ethnography; What to present from the research?