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Introduction to Music in World
Cultures
Music 133, Fall 2010
Professor: Gabriel Solis
Contact: [email protected] , 244- Class Meets: M/W/F 12-1 pm, Music Bldg. Auditorium Office Hours: M 1-2, 4050 Music Bldg. Teaching Assistants: Holly Holmes [email protected] Megan Woller [email protected] John Stanislawski [email protected] Course Description: This class is intended as a broad survey of music and its place in human cultures around the world. We will consider traditional, popular, and classical musics from a number of regions in an ethnomusicological perspective, highlighting similarities and differences in music’s relation to other domains of social life, such as cosmology, art, language, economics, and politics, cross-culturally. Ultimately the purpose of a class such as this is to better understand music itself and the many ways it can be meaningful as a part of the world’s cultural diversity. Quiz Sections: Please find your quiz section information (time and location) in the U of I timetable online. You are expected to attend section regularly and be prepared to discuss material from the website, readings, and lecture. There are occasional in-class writing assignments and quizzes, which can only be made up if your absence is arranged in advance or excused because of a documented emergency. Section is important because it is the best opportunity you have in this class to ask questions and get involved with the material.
Class Website: There is an Illinois Compass website for this class, located at http://compass.illinois.edu. The website will be integral to the course, containing listening assignments, links for online resources, lecture outlines, and study guides for the exams. You should familiarize yourself with the site within the first week of class. When you type in the URL you will be asked for your bluestem login (net id and password). This will take you to a welcome page that will list all of your classes with Compass websites. Required Materials: For this class we will be using World Music: Traditions and Transformations , by Michael Bakan, available at the UI Bookstore and TIS. There are additional readings, all available in full text as pdf documents on the Compass site. In addition to reading, you will be responsible for assigned listening. Some of the listening will be available through the library’s online reserves, and the rest will be directly on Compass. All can be listened to on your computer (the files stream and require either Real Player or Windows Media Player). If you don’t have a computer with a broadband connection these files may be too large to play easily. In that case, you can use computers in any of the many computer labs and libraries on campus (remember to bring headphones). Much of the listening (but not all) is also available on the companion CDs that go with the textbook, and which can be bought separately. Because they are quite expensive, I have made them “recommended,” at the bookstore. It is handy to have them, but not necessary. Do as you wish in this regard. Course Requirements: Success in this course will require doing the reading and associated listening assignments in a timely fashion, attending lectures, and attending and participating in quiz sections. Note that attendance and participation in quiz sections is a set portion of your grade in the class, not a separate grade. In place of a paper, you will have short written assignments to complete in quiz section. The exams will be a mix of questions relating to listening examples, multiple choice questions, and short essays.
Mon, Aug 23: Intro 1, Welcome and announcements (heidely ho, neighbors!) Wed, Aug 25: Intro 2, Music, culture and society, the anthropology of music Read: Bakan, Ch. 2, p. 9- Listen: Bakan, ex 1-4; 1-7; 1- Fri, Aug 27: Into 3, Music and social relations, the sociology of music Read: Bakan, Ch. 2, p. 23- Listen: Bakan, ex 1- Week 2: Mon, Aug 30: Intro 4, Music Fundamentals 1, space Read: Bakan, Ch. 4 Listen: Bakan, ex 1- Wed, Sept 1: Intro 5, Music Fundamentals 2, time Read: Bakan, Ch. 3 Listen: “Blaze-Away March”; “Young Lover’s Waltz”; “Forty Days and Forty Nights”; “What Would I Do (Without You)”; “On the Sunny Side of the Street”; “Seki Setsu”, all on Compass; Bakan ex 1- Fri, Sept 3: Intro 6, Music Fundamentals 3, time and space Read: Bakan, Ch. 6 Listen: Bakan ex. 1-31; 1-15; 1-10; 1-28; 1-40; 1-41; 1-42; 1-43; 1-44; 1- Week 3: Mon, Sept 6: LABOR DAY, NO CLASS. ENJOY A PICNIC… Case 1: Three Asian Classical Musics Wed, Sept 8: Bali 1 Read: Bakan, Ch. 7, p. 87- Listen: Bakan, ex 1-6; 2-2; and “Galan Kangin,” on Compass Fri, Sept 10: Bali 2
Read: Bakan, Ch. 7, p. 95- Listen: Bakan, ex 2-4; 2-5; 2-6; 2- Week 4: Mon, Sept 13: Bali 3 Read: Bakan, Ch. 7, 99- Listen: Bakan, ex 2- Wed, Sept 15: Indonesian Pop Music Read: Jeremy Wallach, “Indonesian Popular Music Genres,” on Compass Listen: “Kroncong Morisko”; “Putri Gunuung”; “Qur’an dan Koran”; and “Bayu-Bayu,” all on Compass Fri, Sept 17: India 1 Read: Bakan, Ch. 8, p. 118- Listen: Bakan, ex. 2-9; 2-11; 2- Week 5: Mon, Sept 20: India 2 Read: Bakan, Ch. 8, p. 142- Listen: Bakan, ex. 2-13; 2-14; 2- Wed, Sept 22: China 1 Read: Bakan, Ch. 13 Listen: Bakan, ex 3-21; 3-22; 3-23; 3-24; 3-25;3-27; 3; 30 Fri, Sept 24: China 2 Listen: Bakan, ex. 1-4; and “The Monument of Li Ling” on Compass Week 6: Mon, Sept 27: China 3 Case 2: Musical Identities under and after Empire Wed, Sept 29: Australia 1 Read: Jennifer Isaacs, “Spirit Country,” excerpt on Compass, and Jill Stubington, “North Australian Aborignal Music,” excerpt on Compass
Mon, Oct 25: Tuva and Mongolia 3 Listen: “Altanbogd”; “Altain Magtaal”; and “Bumbar Palace,” all on Compass Wed, Oct 27: Ireland 1 Read: Bakan, Ch. 9, p. 153- Listen: Bakan ex. 2-17; selected videos on Compass Fri, Oct 29: Ireland 2 Read: Bakan, Ch. 9, p. 171- Listen: Bakan, ex. 2-19; 2-20; and selected videos on Compass HAPPY HALLOWEEN… Week 11: Case 3: Roots and Routes: Africa and the Americas Mon, Nov 1: West Africa 1 Read: Bakan, Ch. 10, p. 185- Listen: Bakan, ex. 2-24; 2-26; “Jeliya”; and “Diya Gneba,” on Compass Wed, Nov 3: West Africa 2 Read: Bakan, Ch. 10, 195- Listen: Bakan, ex. 2-21; 2-22; “Drum Gahu,” on Compass Fri, Nov 5: EXAM 2 (COVERS ONLY MATERIAL FROM CASE 2) Week 12: Mon, Nov 8: Zimbabwe Read: Turino, “The Music of Sub-Saharan Africa,” p. 171- 79, on Compass Listen: “Nyamaropa,” two versions; both on Compass Wed, Nov 10: Central Africa/Bayaka Read: Turino, p. 179- Listen: “Ganza Knogo Ngo,” two versions; “Boyobi Ceremony”; “Ame Ote”; and “Geedal,” all on Compass Fri, Nov 12: NO CLASS, I WILL BE OUT OF TOWN
Week 13: Mon, Nov 15: Latin America 1 (Afro-Latin Religious Traditions) Listen: Bakan, ex. 3- Wed, Nov 17: Latin America 2 (Afro-Cuban Dance Music) Read: Bakan, Ch. 11, p. 218- Listen: Bakan, ex. 3-2; 3-3; 3- Fri, Nov 19: Latin America 3 (Brazilian Dance Music and Capoeira) FALL BREAK, NO CLASS NOV 22-26; ENJOY THE TURKEY Week 14: Mon, Nov 29: Latin America 4( Andean music) Read: Thomas Turino, “Music in Latin America,” p. 248- 253, on Compass Listen: Andean Pan Pipe examples, “Lento” and “Choclo”; and “Mañana Me Voy,” all on Compass Wed, Dec 1: North America 1 Read: Bakan, Ch. 11, p. 228- Listen: Bakan, ex. 3-5; 3-6; 3- Fri, Dec 3: North America 2 Listen: “Ohio Polka”; and “Love ‘Em and Leave ‘Em Polka,” both on Compass Week 15: Mon, Dec 6: North America 3 Listen: “Atotonilco”; “Cariño Sincero”; “Corrido del Aciete”; and “Donde Vayas,” all on Compass Wed, Dec 8: LAST DAY OF CLASS
