Course overview
This course examines how older, traditional forms of music are continuously recombined in new contexts and the ways musicologists have approached the study of these forms. Issues covered include the ways that the sounds and staging of performance, the function of musical performance and the meanings associated with performance can be maintained or changed over time. This course also examines ethical and aesthetic considerations in music which involves cross-cultural appropriation or hybrid forms.
Course learning outcomes
- Understanding of recent developments in music research
- Understanding of the ways in which traditional forms of music have evolved in an increasingly mass mediated and culturally interconnected world.
- Understand a range of approaches to music research through consideration of case studies of Western and non-Western, notated and oral, and traditional and contemporary music practices.
- Develop an understanding of aesthetics and ethics in contemporary modes of musical practice and music research.
- Develop music research skills related to planning essays and confidence in written, oral, and electronic modes of communication.
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