Introduction to the Cultural Analysis of Music 08-KUDU-MA-AME
1. Introduction into history of cultural approaches to music
2. Evolutionism and ethnomusicology
3. Diffusionism and the critique of evolutionism
4. Anthropology of music: Alan P. Merriam and John Blacking
5. Cognitive anthropology of music.
6. Sociology of music: the impact of P. Bourdieu and Th. W. Adorno
7. Cultural history of music: Richard Taruskin
8. Cultural study of repertoiries: European art music
9. Cultural study of repertoiries: Asiatic forms of art music
10. Cultural study of repertoiries: folk music
11. Cultural study of repertoiries: popular music
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Course module conducted remotely (e-learning)
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1. The graduate knows and understands the theoretical concepts of culture and uses them in the interdisciplinary perspective
2. The graduate is able to recognize meanings, social influence and place of coltural products in historico-cultural process, using proper methods of analysis and interpretations
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Oral and written exam concerning the topics of the module
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Bibliography
A. P. Merriam, Anthropology of Music
J. Blacking, How Musical is Man?
J. T. Titon (ed.), Worlds of Music
R. Taruskin, The Oxford History of Western Music
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