Meets at 501 N. Park.  This course introduces students to the major
theoretical orientations that have shaped the study of
ethnomusicology since World War II.  Topics will include the nature
of inquiry; theoretical foundations of comparative musicology;
structural-functionalist approaches; paradigmatic structuralism;
linguistic theories; Marxist influences; literary and dramaturgical
theories; gender, ethnicity, and identity issues; phenomenology and
experiential ethnomusicology; and postmodern and transnational
orientations.

We will be using a draft version of a book written expressly for this
class: Theory in Ethnomusicology Today and students will be expected
to provide critical feedback through a journal documenting their
reading of this text.  They will also be asked to find examples of a
number of theoretical orientations in the ethnomusicological
literature and write a series of five short papers of approximately
five pages each, analyzing the use of theory in the chosen
ethnographies.

TEXTS:
Stone, Ruth M. Theory in Ethnomusicology Today.  Draft
		version to be provided.
Brett, Philip, Elizabeth Wood and Gary C. Thomas. 1994.
Queering the Pitch: The New Gay and Lesbian 	
			Musicology. New York: Routledge.
Brown, Richard. 1989. A Poetic for Sociology: Toward a Logic of
Discovery for the Human Sciences.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Monson, Ingrid. 1996.  Saying Something: Jazz 	
			Improvisation and Interaction.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Nettl, Bruno and Philip Bohlman. 1991. Comparative
			Musicology and Anthropology of Music.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press.