FOLK-E 525 READINGS IN ETHNOGRAPHY (3 CR.)
This graduate seminar is designed to provide the student with a working knowledge of the intellectual history, major theoretical orientations, and analytical techniques that have shaped the practice of ethnographic research. Throughout the semester we will explore how ethnomusicologists have sought to document, analyze, interpret, and present their research.
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Spring 2024
Component | Credits | Class | Status | Time | Day | Facility | Instructor |
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SEM | 3 | 30804 | Open | 9:00 a.m.–11:30 a.m. | R | C2 272 | Dyer J |
Regular Academic Session / In Person
SEM 30804: Total Seats: 12 / Available: 1 / Waitlisted: 0
Seminar (SEM)
This graduate seminar examines the intellectual history, major theoretical orientations, and analytical techniques that have shaped ethnographic research and writing as a creative, observational, and analytical practice. We will critically engage with classic, contemporary, and emerging modes of ethnography with the intention of making cross-disciplinary connections with other modes of writing and cultural analysis. We will use the study of ethnographic practices to explore how ethnomusicologists have documented, analyzed, conceptualized, and presented their research. As a world-making device, ethnography necessarily attends to positionality, voice, reciprocity, and socio-cultural power relations. Additional topics will include the nature of representation, theoretical foundations of cultural analysis, and the disciplinary history of ethnographic writing, all of which we will approach by incorporating works by feminist, minority, and differently abled ethnographers, filmmakers, researchers, artists, and cultural critics.