COURSE UNIT TITLE

: NEW APPROACHES TO ETHNOMUSICOLOGY I

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
MZB 6041 NEW APPROACHES TO ETHNOMUSICOLOGY I ELECTIVE 3 0 0 6

Offered By

Musicology

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR AYHAN EROL

Offered to

Musicology

Course Objective

This course based on the methodology of interdisciplinary research explores contemporary approaches in ethnomusicology. The focus is on contemporary theoretical issues in the field of the social sciences even though current concerns might be situated within the history and theory of ethnomusicological discourse.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   The students who succeeded in this course will be able to;
2   recognize the relationship between disciplinary, interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary, and describe the relationship between interdisciplinary studies and ethnomusicology.
3   grasp that new approaches to ethnomusicology is based on contemporary theoretical issues in the field of the social sciences
4   determine that ethnomusicology is study for cultural and musical variety
5   recognize that this course provides not only educational setting, but also serves as collaborative learning experience.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Introduction: interdisciplinarity in the produce of knowledge
2 Defining music
3 The theory on the origin of music
4 Postcolonial theory in ethnomusicology
5 Identity and gender
6 Postmodernism and music studies
7 Poststructural theory and ethnomusicology
8 Music revival in ethnomusicology
9 Marxism and ethnomusicology
10 Music, psychology, and ethnomusicology of emotions
11 Ethnoscience, ethnomethodology, and music studies
12 Students' presentations
13 Students' presentations
14 Midterm

Recomended or Required Reading

Asmann, Jan (2001) Kültürel Bellek, Istanbul: Ayrıntı yay.
Barrett, James (2006) World music, nation and postcolonialism, Cultural Studies, 10 (2): 237-247.
Binark, Mutlu-Irvan, Süleyman (1995) Kadın ve Popüler Kültür, Ankara: Ark Yay.
Bourdieu, Pierre (1984) Distinction: A social critique of the judgement of Taste, Harvard Univ. Press.
Clayton, Martin (ed) (2003) The cultural Study of Music, Routledge Pub.
Erol, Ayhan (2002) Popüler Müziği Anlamak. Istanbul: Bağlam Yay.
Erol, Ayhan (2009) Marketing the Alevi Musical Revival , Muslim Societies in the Age of Mass Consumption, Johanna Pink (ed), Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle upon Tyne, (165-185).
Erol, Ayhan (2011) Understanding Diversity of Islamic Identity in Turkey Through Popular Music: Global/Local Nexus , Social Compass, 58 (2) : 187-202.
Erol, Ayhan (2012) Music, Power, and Symbolic Violence: The Turkish State s Music Policies During the Early Republican Period , Journal of European Cultural Studies, 15 (1): 35-52.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

The course will adress a range of topics, issues and research areas such as globalisation or glocalisation and diasporas, urban ethnomusicology, popular culture and music revivals, new approaches to the perception of music, religion, ideology and popular music practices, ethnicity, consumer culture and popular music, the issues of gender and sexuality, postmodernism, postcolonialism and poststructralism and so on

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 ASG ASSIGNMENT
3 PAR PARTICIPATION
4 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE
5 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.30 + ASG * 0.30 + PAR * 0.10 + FCG * 0.30
6 RST RESIT
7 RST RESIT


*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

Course assessment criteria are specified in the course assessment methods/plans.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

%70 attendance is compulsory.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Prof. Dr. Ayhan EROL
aerol@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

Monday: 13.30-16.30
Thursday: 15.30-16.30

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 3 39
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 12 4 48
Preparation for midterm exam 1 14 14
Preparation for final exam 1 14 14
Preparing assignments 1 20 20
Preparing presentations 1 8 8
Final 1 1 1
Midterm 1 3 3
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 147

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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