Module ANT3031 for 2018/9
- Overview
- Aims and Learning Outcomes
- Module Content
- Indicative Reading List
- Assessment
Undergraduate Module Descriptor
ANT3031: Ethnomusicology
This module descriptor refers to the 2018/9 academic year.
Module Aims
This module has three key aims: (1) to consider music's role and impact in social life; (2) to consider some of the classic and current approaches within ethnomusicology and music sociology; and (3) to exemplify these approaches with reference to empirical studies with special reference to music in daily life.
| On successfully completing the programme you will be able to: | |
|---|---|
| Module-Specific Skills | 1. examine and analyse musical phenomena in light of ethnomusicological and sociological theories and to apply key concepts to musical data; 2. demonstrate ability to identify connections between musical works and social structures; |
| Discipline-Specific Skills | 3. relate a defined corpus of sociological ideas and data to a consideration of both production and the reception of art in the modern world; 4. deploy sociological argument, developed through written assignments and classroom presentations in a critical relationship to received ways of talking about art works, and artists; 5. demonstrate competence in the use of a specialist terminology developed through a familiarity with the principal sociological debates concerning art as a social phenomenon; |
| Personal and Key Skills | 6. demonstrate independent study and group work, including the presentation of material for group discussion, developed through the mode of learning; 7. demonstrate skills in sociological reasoning and the marshalling of evidence, use of data etc. developed through written assignments; 8. digest, select and organise material to produce, to a deadline, a coherent and cogent argument, developed through the mode of assessment. |
Module Content
Syllabus Plan
The module begins by considering key concepts and writers on music sociology and ethnomusicology. The concepts will include: affordances, homology, appropriation, affiliation and habitus. The module then sets these concepts in context of case study material focused on musical structure as a medium for thinking about the life course, social structure, embodied communication, identity, health and wellbeing; consciousness, social control and memory.
Topics:
A. Orientation:
- Introduction to ethnomusicology/music sociology
- Key concepts with examples
- What is music, sound, noise: an exercise in boundary construction
B. Music in Everyday Life over the life course and in cultural context:
- Communicative musicality
- Music and socialization
- Music and emotion, music and work
- Music and health/wellbeing: alternative healing and ritual care
- Music and continuing bonds: spirituality, transcendence and commemoration through music
Learning and Teaching
This table provides an overview of how your hours of study for this module are allocated:
| Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activities | Guided independent study | Placement / study abroad |
|---|---|---|
| 48 | 252 | 0 |
...and this table provides a more detailed breakdown of the hours allocated to various study activities:
| Category | Hours of study time | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Scheduled Learning and Teaching activity | 48 | 12 x two hour lectures, 8 x two hour seminars and 2 x student-led discussion sessions with small presentations in seminar 12 x two hour lectures, 8 x two hour seminars and 2 x student-led discussion sessions with small presentations in seminar |
| Guided Independent Study | 20 | A variety of activities directed by module leader and allowing student choice: 1. Mapping the sonic environment |
| Guided Independent Study | 10 | 2. Interview or radio archive exercise |
| Guided Independent Study | 17 | 3. Video analysis of embodied musical engagement |
| Guided Independent Study | 22 | 4. Exploration of musicalisation of settings or interactions |
| Guided Independent Study | 60 | Reading and researching |
| Guided Independent Study | 14 | Preparation for student-led seminars |
| Guided Independent Study | 35 | Writing the proposal |
| Guided Independent Study | 74 | Writing the essay |
Online Resources
This module has online resources available via ELE (the Exeter Learning Environment).
