UCLA Department of Ethnomusicology

Weekly Readings

Week One:

Mon: None

Wed:
Worlds of Music, Chapter 1, pp. 1-30.

Week Two:

Mon:
Herndon, “Insiders, Outsiders,” The World of Music 35(1) 1993 (online reserve)
http://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/music/ Go to “Course Reserves”

Wed:
REFERENCE SECTION OF MUSIC LIBRARY
Garland Encyclopedia of World Music, “Australia and the Pacific Islands.”
Pp. 1-6 “Introduction to Oceania and Its Music”
Pp. 53-57 “Encounters Among ‘Ourselves’”
Pp. 185-190 “Music and Religion”

Week Three:

Mon:           
Trimillos, "Music and Ethnic Identity," (online reserve)

Wed:         
Worlds of Music, Ch. 7, pp. 231-260

Week Four:

Mon:          
Rees, “’Authenticity’ and the Foreign Audience for Traditional Music in Southwest China”
(online reserve)

Wed:      
Worlds of Music, “East Asia/Japan,” Ch. 5

Week Five:

Mon:    
Worlds, “India/South India,” Ch. 6, pp. 197-227

Week Six: No reading.

Week Seven: Radulescu, "Ethnomusicologists Under Pressure"

Week Eight: Worlds, "Africa," Ch. 3

Week Nine: Worlds, "Latin America," Ch. 8

Week Ten: No reading.