Week 1: Jan. 17 - 20

• Intro to the course
• TITON, Ch. 1 (The Music Culture as a World of Music)
• NETTL, Ch. 1 (Studying the World's Music Cultures)
• patterns in music: rhythm, meter, melody, harmony, form
• music and culture; definitions of culture
• musical-cultural influences: family, religion, generation, gender, leisure, ethnicity, regionalism, nationalism, commercialism

Week 2: Jan. 23 - 27

• TITON Ch. 10 (Discovering and Documenting a World of Music): The Field Research Project
• writing a musical ethnography: selecting a topic, collecting data, library and Internet research, field observation and interview, audio and video documentation
• Visitors Wed., 1/25: Tango Lorca

UNIT 2: THE TRADITIONAL MUSIC OF AFRICA
http://www.millsaps.edu/pfrmarts/raley/world/africa.shtml

Week 3: Jan. 31 - Feb. 3

• TITON, Ch. 3 (Ewe, Mande, Dagbamba)
• NETTL, Ch. 7 (The Music of Sub-Saharan Africa)
• diversity of African culture
• music-making events
• influence of spiritual philosophy on musicla expression
• the drum-ensemble: rhythms and polyrhythms

Week 4: Feb. 6 - 10

• TITON, Ch. 3 cont. (Shona, BaAka)
• vocal technique, structure of songs
• selected readings on the Venda people in "How Musical is Man?" (Blacking)
• VIDEO: Djembefola: Mamady Keita, master drummer

UNIT 3: AFRO-POP
Afro-Pop Worldwide

Week 5: Feb. 13 - 17
REQUIRED: Core 5 Framing Lecture -- Dr. Bill Storey (History Dept)
Tuesday Feb. 14th, 11:30-12:30 [AC 215]

• globalization
• Thomas Mapfumo and Chimurenga music
• Highlife, Juju, Fiji, Wassoulou, etc.

Week 6: Feb. 20 - 24

• VIDEO: Mizike Mama
• VIDEO: Femi Kuti Live at the African Shrine
• VIDEO: Ali Farka Touré: "African River Blues"

UNIT 4: AFRICAN-AMERICAN ROOTS: THE BLUES

Week 7: Feb. 27 - Mar. 3 [no class Tue., Feb. 28]

• NETTL, Ch. 11 (Ethnic North America)
• TITON, Ch. 4 (North America: Black America)

  TOPIC PROPOSAL #1 for Field Research Project due Mar. 3
  MIDTERM ESSAY EXAM THUR. MAR. 2

Week 8: Mar. 6 - 10 [no class Fri., Mar. 10: Topic Proposals due at class time]

• VIDEO: Give My Poor Heart Ease - Mississippi Delta Bluesmen
• the blues as a form and genre
• the blues in Appalachian old-time mountain music
• VIDEO (selected): The blues - a musical journey (Martin Scorsese)

  FINAL TOPIC PROPOSAL for Field Research Project due Mar. 10

----------Spring Break----------

UNIT 5: JAMAICAN MUSIC: FROM MENTO TO REGGAE AND BEYOND

Week 9: Mar. 20, 21, 22 (Mon, Tue, Wed)

• Sound Systems and "toasting"
• Reggae's evolution: Ska, Mento, Rock Steady, Dancehall, Ragga
• Rastafarianism, Bob Marley myths and legends

Week 10: Mar. 27, 28, 29 (Mon, Tue, Wed)

• Jamaican music, cont.
• TEST on Unit 5 Mar. 29 (Wed.)

UNIT 6: ARABIC CLASSICAL MUSIC

Week 11: Apr. 3, 4, 5 (Mon, Tue, Wed)

• NETTL, Ch. 3 (The Music of the Middle East)
• The maqamat: Modes in Arabic Music
• Instruments and their origins
• Tarab and Saltanah: Reaching modal ecstasy in Arabic music performance

Week 12: Apr. 10, 11, 12 (Mon, Tue, Wed)

• playing common Iqa'at patterns on percussion instruments
• TEST on Unit 6 Apr. 12 (Wed.)

UNIT 7: SUFI DEVOTIONAL MUSIC: QAWWALI

Week 13: Apr. 17, 18, 19 (Mon, Tue, Wed)

• Islam and Sufi mysticism
• VIDEO: Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan and the tradition of Qawwali
• Nusrat's music in The Last Temptation of Christ, Natural Born Killers, Dead Man Walking (debate: appropriate and inappropriate cross-cultural use)

FIELD RESEARCH PROJECTS DUE
April 21st (Friday)

WEEK 14: Field Research Report Presentations

Week 14: Apr. 24, 25, 26, & 28 (We will meet all four days, Mon-Fri)