Curricular Unit: World Music I
Code: LCM016
ECTS: 2
Cientific Area: Musical Sciences
Learning Outcomes
> To acquire knowledge of the most relevant aspects of the history of ethnomusicology
> To analyze and reflect upon musical diversity that characterizes different musical cultures in the theoretical andpractical aspects
> To know the different processes that characterize the modernization of musical practices in different humangroups
> To reflect upon issues that are key concerns in this domain nowadays
> To address several analysis strategies, organization and interpretation of data collected through field research
Syllabus
> Domain and definitions of Ethnomusicology
> Fieldwork Methodology
> Musical Cultures: Portugal, Europe, Africa, Middle East, Far East, America
Teaching Methodologies
> Discussion of texts
> Listening and commenting different musical practices
> Presentation of visual documentation where appropriate
Bibliography
CÁMARA, Enrique, Etnomusicologia, Madrid: Ediciones del ICCMU, 2003
CASTELO-BRANCO, Salwa, (dir.) Enciclopédia da música em Portugal no Século XX, INET, Lisboa: Círculo deLeitores, 2010
CRUCES, Francisco y Otros eds., Las culturas musicales. Lecturas de Etnomusicologia, ed. Trotta, S.A., 2001
MERRIAM, Alan, The Anthropology of Music, Evanston, Northwestern University Press, 1984
MYERS, Helen ed., Ethnomusicology: an Introduction, New York, W.W. Norton, 1992
NETTL, Bruno, The Study of Ethnomusicology: Twenty-Nine Issues and Concepts, Urbana, The University ofIllinois Press, 1983
SADIE, Stanley (ed.) The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2001
STOKES, Martin, Ethnicity, Identity and Music, Oxford, Berg, 1994
STONE, Ruth et al., Garland Encyclopedia of World Music (Vols. 1, 6, 8, 10), Garland Publishing, 1997
TITON, Jeff (ed.), Worlds of Music. An Introduction to the Music of the World’s Peoples, New York, SchirmerBooks, 2001
Teaching Staff
Rui Cabral Lopes