For Spring, 2007, we are pleased
to offer one of the largest slates of Ethnomusicology courses we've ever
offered at Columbia!
Click here to see the complete listing of classes, seminars and
ensembles.
WORLD
MUSIC ENSEMBLES
Music V1626 Section 001 -
Bluegrass
Call Number: 63148 Points: 1
Day/Time: Wednesdays, 4-6PM, 112 Dodge
Instructor: Jonathan T. King
Email: jk560@columbia.edu
Audition Days: Wednesday, Jan. 17 and Wednesday, Jan. 24
Music V1626 Section 002
- Gagaku
Call Number: 66899 Points: 1
Day/Time: Fridays, 4-6 PM, 112 Dodge
Instructor: Naoko Terauchi
Email: VYR01136@nifty.ne.jp
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UNDERGRADUATE COURSES
Music V2016 - Jazz
Call Number: 95941 Points: 3
Day/Time: MW 4:10pm-5:25pm
Location: 202 Altschul Hall (Barnard)
Instructor: Christopher J. Washburne
Email: cjw5@columbia.edu
Music V3420 - The Social
Science of Music
Section 001 Call Number: 79784 Points: 3
Day/Time: TR 2:40pm-3:55pm
Location: 620 Dodge Hall
Instructor: Ellen Gray
Email: leg2114@columbia.edu
Music V3460 - Music and
the Post-Socialist State
Section 001 Call Number: 82051 Points: 3
Day/Time: MW 11:10am-1:00pm
Location: 814 Dodge Hall
Instructor: Adriana N. Helbig
Email: anh5@columbia.edu
Asian Humanities: MUS V3321
Musics of India and West Asia
Call Number: 22199 Points: 3
Day/Time: TR 6:10pm-7:25pm
Location: 622 Dodge Hall
Instructor: Jason Oakes
Email: jlo7@columbia.edu
Music W4415 - Musical Traditions
and Modern Society in Japan
Call Number: 17848 Points: 3
Day/Time: MW 6:10-7:25PM
Instructor: Naoko Terauchi
Co-instructor: David Novak
Location: 404 Dodge Hall
Email: den12@columbia.edu
Description: This is a topical research course/seminar
for both graduate students and undergraduates interested in Asian music. Visiting
Professor Naoko Terauchi will present her primary areas of ethnographic and
historical research -- Gagaku and Okinawan music; Dr. David Novak, who is co-teaching
the course, will end the course by presenting a unit on his primary research
on contemporary Japanese experimental and electronic musics. The course will
have a contemporary perspective, and will examine the invention and maintenance
of "traditional" Japanese (and Okinawan) musical aesthetics and social
ideologies, and the relevance of these traditions for modern Japanese musicians
and composers. Three 5-7 page papers, several class presentations, and extensive
reading are required. Admission to the seminar is by permission of the instructors.
GRADUATE COURSES
Music G9401- Advanced Seminar in Ethnomusicology (I): Musical Expressions
of the New York Caribbean
Call Number: 88155 Points: 3
Day/Time: W 10:00am-12:00pm
Location: 701C Dodge Hall
Instructor: Chris Washburne
Email: cjw5@columbia.edu
Description: This seminar focuses on Spanish Caribbean
music traditions associated with New York City. We will begin by exploring the
circumambient historical space of the earliest Caribbean music expression in
New York City, examining the historical developments that have positioned the
City as a central hub for Caribbean music production and consumption over the
last 100 years, and as a space for innovation and as well as a place for the
preservation of traditions. We will then follow the trajectory of the music’s
multiple modes of expression in contemporary performance. Genres associated
with the City, such as Latin jazz, salsa, mambo, and hip hop, will be the main
objects of study. The central concern will be the dynamic interplay of place,
economics, race, ethnicity, immigration, and nationalism involved in the intercultural
exchange which has been so fundamental in the production of these musics. A
short-term field research project will be required.
Music G9402 - Advanced Seminar
in Ethnomusicology (II): Social Theory and the Arts
Note New Time and Location
Call Number: 76046 Points: 3
Day/Time: M 1:10pm-3:00pm
Location: 620 Dodge Hall
Instructor: Aaron A. Fox
Email: aaf19@columbia.edu
Description: This advanced seminar presents an intellectual
history of contemporary social theory with specific relevance to the history
of socio-musical (anthropological, ethnomusicological, etc.) research. After
spending several weeks reading classic texts by Marx, Durkheim, and Weber, we
turn to a sustained unit on the American anthropological tradition founded by
Franz Boas and represented, especially, by pioneering ethnomusicologist George
Herzog, as the direct lineage of contemporary anthropological ethnomusicology.
We will also review such broad areas of theory as structuralism, post-structuralism,
interpretive/symbolic anthropology, critical theory, semiotic theory, practice
theory, phenomenology, and post-colonial theory, again with specific attention
to the significance of these bodies of theory to contemporary ethnomusicology.
This course is required for all PhD students in ethnomusicology who entered
in 2004-5 or later. For all others, admission to the seminar is by instructor
permission only . Extensive reading assignments will be required, as will several
5-7 page papers.
Music G8412 - Seminar in
Ethnomusicology: Field Methods I
Call Number: 72799 Points: 3
Day/Time: R 10:00am-11:50am
Location: 701A Dodge Hall
Instructor: Ellen Gray
Email: leg2114@columbia.edu
Description: An introduction to ethnographic field research
methods. Students must develop an ongoing and substantial field research project
in the New York City area. Admission by permission of the instructor only.
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Schools in the NYC Area:
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