General information
| Course type | AMUPIE |
| Module title | Introduction To Cultural Analysis Of Music |
| Language | English |
| Module lecturer | prof. UAM dr hab. Krzysztof Moraczewski |
| Lecturer's email | kmoracz@amu.edu.pl |
| Lecturer position | Professor |
| Faculty | Faculty of Anthropology and Cultural Studies |
| Semester | 2021/2022 (summer) |
| Duration | 30 |
| ECTS | 5 |
| USOS code | AME |
Timetable
Module aim (aims)
• Introducing students to history of cultural studies of music
• Presenting broad spectrum of approaches
• Introducing students to different repertoires
Pre-requisites in terms of knowledge, skills and social competences (where relevant)
Not relevant
Syllabus
Week 1: Introduction into history of cultural approaches to music
Week 2: Pre-scholarly thinking about music
Week 3: Evolutionism and Musikwissenschaft
Week 4: Evolutionism and ethnomusicology
Week 5: Diffusionism and the critique of evolutionism
Week 6: Anthropology of music: Alan P. Merriam
Week 7: Anthropology of music: John Blacking
Week 8: Contemporary ethnomusicology: Jeff T. Titon
Week 9: Cultural analysis of music: Richard Taruskin
Week 10:Popular music studies: an overview
Week 11:Popular music studies: Richard Middleton
Week 12:European art music - repertoire, analysis
Week 13:Asian art music - repertoire, analysis
Week 14:Folk music - repertoire, analysis
Week 15:Popular music - repertoire, analysis
Reading list
A. P. Merriam, Anthropology of Music
J. Blacking, How musical is Man?
J. T. Titon (ed.) Worlds of Music
R. Taruskin, The Oxford History of Western Music
M. Clayton, T. Herber, R. Middleton, The Cultural Study of Music
J.P.E. Harper-Scott, J. Samson, An Introduction to Music Studies
P. Bourdieu, Distinction