MUS229

Music

Traditionally, “musicology” is concerned with investigating Euro-American art music from an historical and analytical perspective. “Ethnomusicology” is traditionally concerned with investigating any music from anywhere and anytime, from an anthropological and ethnographic perspective. For many music students in Euro-America, ethnomusicology provides some of their first experiences of non-Western musics. MUS 229 is a general introduction to the field of ethnomusicology; it is open to general students and is cross-listed through the Anthropology Department. Skills in music performance, analysis or literacy in Western music notation are not required. Rather than score analysis or music theory, we will be learning about music through hands on workshops, ethnography, and digital humanities research methods. Some of the work you will do in this class will become part of long-term public research project (audible-rva.org).