This course will take an ethnomusicological approach to examining the relationship between music, identity, cultural survival, and globalisation. In the contemporary world, music shapes and is shaped by desires to retain localised identities in the midst of globalisation in ways that are at the same time novel and familiar. This course will focus on understanding how music can be a tool for scholars, artists and policy-makers alike in understanding the underpinning identity, rights and ethical issues that such contemporary musical configurations present. Learning and teaching activities will include lectures and tutorials.

By the end of the course, you should be able to:

1. describe the interrelationships between music, cultural survival, and globalisation from several theoretical perspectives
2. apply these theoretical perspectives to a number of specific musical cases
3. demonstrate listening skills focused on cross-cultural musical elements, developed through the study and discussion of selected works
4. demonstrate research, analysis, discussion and writing skills through written assessment tasks, particularly with regard to the discourses surrounding cross-cultural music.

• Group or individual research project (3000  words or multimedia equivalent) (60%), [Learning Outcomes 1,2,3,4]
• Case studies e-workbook, involving observation, listening and analysis (c.2000 words)  (40%), [Learning Outcomes 1,2,3,4]

130 hours of total student learning time made up from:

a)  36 hours of contact:

1. 26 hours of lectures (one per week or intensive)
2. 10 hours of tutorial/feedback

b) 94 hours of independent student research, reading and writing

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None

Biddle, Ian & Knights, Vanessa. 'Music, National Identity and the Politics of Location: Between the Global and the Local, Ashgate: UK, 2007

Frith, Simon “Music and Identity”, Questions of Cultural Identity (Hall, Stuart and Du Gay, Paul eds, Sage, 1996)

Stokes, Martin. Ethnicity, Identity, and Music: the Musical Construction of Place Oxford: UK, 1994.