MUSIC 287 - Musical Ethnography

Institution:

Bard College

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Description:

Anthropology, SRE This course provides practical instruction in field research and analytical methods in ethnomusicology. Topics include research design; grantsmanship; fieldwork; participant observation; writing of field notes, interviews, and oral histories; survey instruments; textual analysis; audiovisual methods; archiving; performance as methodology; historical research; and the poetics, ethics, and politics of cultural representation. Students conceive, design, and carry out a limited research project over the course of a semester. They also write up a grant proposal for a project (this may be the same as the semester project) and defend it in a mock review.

Credits:

4.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.bard.edu

Phone Number:

(845) 758-6822

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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