| Language of Instruction |
English |
| Course Type |
Elective |
| Course Level |
Bachelor Degree |
| Course Instructor(s) |
Murad Ö. ÖZDEMİR
mozdemir@gsu.edu.tr (Email)
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| Objective |
This course aims to explore the possibilities of the anthropology of music and sound through a set of questions: How is sound related to social identities and people’s senses of time and place? What is the relation between music and social structures?
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| Content |
Words and music do not usually get along well with each other. Forms of nonverbal communication typically cause some challenging problems for researchers. The contemporary ethnographic practice implies to a set of rules, all marked with different forms writing: In many contemporary studies, the sensory worlds and paralinguistic forms are neglected, and they are reduced to spoken languages only. It is important to remember, however, that culture manifests itself in many different forms, and exploration of any symbolic environment cannot be limited with verbal and/or visual qualities alone.
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| References |
Merriam, Alan P. (1964) The Anthropology of Music. Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University Press.
Nettl, Bruno (2017) The Study of Ethnomusicology: Thirty-Three Discussions. By Bruno Nettl.3ded. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2015.
Tarasti, Eero. A Theory of Musical Semiotics.’Advances in Semiotics' (Indiana University Press, Bloomington& Indianapolis, 1994
Shepherd, John (1991) Music as Social Text. Polity Press and Basil Blackwell.
Stravinsky, Igor. 2003. Poetics of Music in the Form of Six Lessons, Preface by George Seferis, Trans. By Arthur Knodel & Ingolf Dahl, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.
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