WEEKS

CONTENT

WEEK 1

Jan 14 & 16

DISCUSSION:

• Introduction to Course
• Syllabus
• Introduction to ethnomusicology
• Organologies and basic musical terms

Reading Assignment:

• World music: a global journey: Chap 1 – Fundamental Issue

WEEK 2

Jan 21 & 23

DISCUSSION:

• Examine geography, history, and cultural identities of West Africa, Ghana, Ewe people
• Ghanian Drumming Styles

Reading Assignment:

• World music: a global journey: Chap 9 – Sub-Saharan Africa

WEEK 3

Jan 28 & 30

DISCUSSION:

• Recognize the history, function of music in the African American experience
• Early stage: Slavery, emancipation struggles, the Civil War and Civil Rights.
• • VIDEO: Alan Lomax Archive [Video].
• Reading Assignment:
• • World music: a global journey: Chap 13 – North America: Diverse peoples, diverse musics

WEEK 4

Feb 4 & 6

DISCUSSION:

• Recognize the function of music within African Americans’ social, ritual, and cultural contexts:
• • Spiritual
  • Gospel music
  • Blues, Jazz
  • Civil Rights Movement

Reading Assignment:

• Music cultures in the United States: Chap 7 – African American Musical Cultures
• Learn and perform African American music.

WEEK 5

Feb 11 & 13

Discussion:

• Examine geography, history, and cultural identities of Hawaiians migrating from Polynesian Islands.

Reading Assignment:

• World music: a global journey: Chap 4 – Oceania: Voices of land and sea