As the only department to combine the disciplines of folklore and ethnomusicology, we offer students an exceptional opportunity to master the study of expressive culture at home and abroad, among different populations, in the past and in the present.
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Our courses focus on a diverse range of theoretical, methodological, and topical approaches to document, analyze, and interpret cultural forms and practices across the world. Engaging in both fieldwork-based ethnographic and archival research, our students learn to employ theoretical, historical, and practical approaches in their study of music, visual art, material culture, verbal art, cultural performance, and cosmological and mythological systems.
This course will focus on traditions documented from the 19th through 21st centuries; a period during which folklore inspired an Irish literary revival, served the nation-building project of a newly independent republic, and continues to inspire creative responses to modernity.
While much attention is given to the memory loss of older adults and its biological causes, later life can also be a time for remembering. This class explores the many ways that elders recall, organize, revise, and share their life stories.
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