FOLK-F 722 COLLOQUIUM IN THEORETICAL FOLKLORE/ETHNOMUSICOLOGY (3 CR.)
Intensive examination of social scientific theories and an assessment of their relevance to folklore/ethnomusicology scholarship.
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Fall 2024
Component | Credits | Class | Status | Time | Day | Facility | Instructor |
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SEM | 3 | 10451 | Open | 9:00 a.m.–11:30 a.m. | W | C2 272 | Cooper T |
Regular Academic Session / In Person
SEM 10451: Total Seats: 12 / Available: 4 / Waitlisted: 0
Seminar (SEM)
Topic: Sounding the archive
This course explores the nuanced roles, issues and broad implications of archives shaped by underlying principles and methods within the traditional archival field simultaneously centering counter-iterations of Black culture preservation, as fruitful and necessary archival practice against the grain of Western historical thought and methodology in archiving. While we will explore literature reflecting archival studies, ethnomusicology, philosophy, critical theory and cultural theory among other disciplines and orientations, the course is dedicated to more practical engagement, specifically with curating archival materials, oral histories, and public programming as vehicle for community engagement, preservation and accessibility. The objective is for students to understand (and hopefully reimagine) archives (and their varied manifestations) as complexed, contested and constructed sites governed by extensive social, economic, political, and racial forces among others, which ultimately shape what, how and why certain materials (i.e. voices) are/are not collected, preserved, and made accessible (¿sounded/silenced¿). A range of topics include, but not limited to, archival recovery, ethics, donor relations and stewardship, community partnerships, discovery and access, Black archives in the digital age, negotiating memory, knowledge and meaning, as well as bringing collections alive among others, which shape the definition, resonance, and implications of Black expressive culture preservation.