Readings for May 29
Posted: May 25, 2012 Filed under: syllabus | Tags: readings, syllabus Leave a commentGoodman, Steve. Sonic Warfare: Sound, Affect, and the Ecology of Fear. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2010. Read Introduction through Chapter 2, as well as any other chapters that you find interesting.
Visualization of Eurovision voting trends
Posted: May 22, 2012 Filed under: performances, world music | Tags: europe, eurovision Leave a commentI hope you haven’t forgotten to root for your favorite country in this week’s Eurovision competition. To keep your attention rapt, here is a fascinating visual study of voting trends over the past ten years. Click for more info and a better view.
Readings for May 24
Posted: May 22, 2012 Filed under: syllabus | Tags: readings, syllabus Leave a commentRequired readings:
Tucker, Boima. “Global Genre Accumulation.” Africa Is A Country, November 22, 2011.
Tucker, Boima. “50/50, non-exclusive.” The Cluster Mag., January, 2012.
Eurovision, covered in 2010
Posted: May 18, 2012 Filed under: Uncategorized Leave a commentHere’s a great article on Eurovision from the New Yorker in 2010.
The Eurovision Song Contest is pretty much what it says on the label. It is a singing competition, in Europe, on television. In fact, it is an intra-European affair, held annually among a jostling mass of rival nations. This year, there were thirty-nine countries taking part, including some, such as Turkey or Azerbaijan, that you would not, with atlas in hand, immediately define as European; admission is granted to any willing member of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU). There were seventeen countries in each semifinal, plus five that swept straight through to the final, bypassing the quicksand of the semis. One of these is always the host country, in this case Norway; the four others—France, Germany, Spain, and the United Kingdom—go through unchallenged, on the highly artistic ground that their respective broadcasters pour the largest contributions into the coffers of the EBU. Think of the permanent members of the United Nations Security Council, add a blast of dry ice, and you get the idea.
Happy 100, Bollywood
Posted: May 17, 2012 Filed under: discussion | Tags: anniversary, bollywood Leave a commentNew Yorker has a slideshow celebrating 100 years of Bollywood.
Readings for May 22
Posted: May 15, 2012 Filed under: syllabus | Tags: readings, syllabus Leave a commentJenkins, Henry. “What Happened Before Youtube?” In Burgess, Jean and Joshua Green, eds. Youtube: Online Video and Participatory Culture, 109-125. Malden, MA: Polity Press, 2009. Available on Blackboard.
Varnelis, Kazys. “The Meaning of Network Culture.” Eurozine. January 14, 2010.
Reynolds, Simon. “Xenomania: Nothing is Foreign in an Internet Age.” MTV Iggy. November 29, 2011.
Required listening:
“Nu-Whirled Music.” Afropop.org. June 22, 2011.
Readings for May 17
Posted: May 15, 2012 Filed under: syllabus | Tags: readings, syllabus Leave a commentFeld, Steven. “A Sweet Lullaby for World Music.” Public Culture, 12.1 (2000): 145-171. Available on Blackboard.
Suggested readings:
Garofalo, Reebee. “Whose World, What Beat: The Transnational Music Industry, Identity, and Cultural Imperialism.” The World of Music 35.2 (1993): 16-32. Available on Blackboard.
Timothy D. Taylor, “A Riddle Wrapped in a Mystery: Transnational Music Sampling and Enigma’s ‘Return to Innocence.’” In Music and Technoculture, eds. R. Lysloff and C. Gay, 64-92. Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, 2003.
Readings for May 15
Posted: May 12, 2012 Filed under: syllabus | Tags: readings, syllabus Leave a commentRequired readings:
Sen, Biswarup. “The Sounds of Modernity: The Evolution of Bollywood Film Song.” In Global Bollywood : Travels of Hindi Song and Dance. Edited by Sangita Gopal, Sujata Moorti. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2008. 85-104. Available on Blackboard.
Suggested readings:
Manuel, Peter. “Popular Music in India: 1901-1986.” Popular Music 7 (1988): 157-176.
Readings for May 10
Posted: May 9, 2012 Filed under: syllabus | Tags: readings, syllabus Leave a commentSlobin, Mark. “Micromusics of the West: A Comparative Approach.” Ethnomusicology, 36.1 (1992): 1-87.
Erlmann, Veit. “A Reply to Mark Slobin.” Ethnomusicology, 37.2 (1993): 263-267.
Slobin, Mark. “A Reply to Veit Erlmann.” Ethnomusicology, 37.2 (1993): 267-269.
Stokes, Martin. “Music and the Global Order.” Annual Review of Anthropology, 33 (2004): 47-73.ed
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