UCLA Department of Ethnomusicology

Instructor: Professor Anthony Seeger
SMB 2687
Office 310-206-2035
Fax: 310-206-4738
E-mail aseeger@arts.ucla.edu
Office Hours: Monday 3:00 – 7:00,
Th. 1:00 – 2:00 PM, and by appointment

Research in ethnomusicology requires theoretical sophistication, bibliographic persistence, and often some kind of original documentation.  Since the methodology must be adequate to the theoretical objective, this course perforce addresses all three. Since it is meant to familiarize graduate students with practical issues and methodologies involved in documentation, it focuses especially on what has come to be called “fieldwork.”  This course was developed and successfully given by Professor Rees for a number of years, and it has been highly praised by many of the graduate students who have taken it. I closely follow Professor Rees’ syllabus, her reader, and to a certain extent her methodology, the originality and strength of which I acknowledge with gratitude.