Cross-Culture & Cross-Artform Practice - MUS00042M

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Module will run

Occurrence	Teaching period
A	Summer Term 2022-23

Module aims

This module will look at how music is experienced and learnt in a variety of global cultures and will explore cross-cultural collaboration, with an investigation of the ethical practices surrounding such work. There will also be a focus on the ways in which community music can connect and interact with other art forms, such as dance and movement, theatre, film and visual arts.

Module learning outcomes

By the end of this module students will have:

 

Subject content

• developed an understanding of the relationship between music and the other arts
• acquired a working knowledge of a range of musical cultures and an understanding of their social contexts
• explored and developed a range of teaching and workshop skills drawing on cross-cultural and cross-artform practice

 

Academic and graduate skills

• developed a critical understanding of current issues in ethnomusicology and cultural studies
• developed familiarity with current research in these fields

Indicative assessment

Task	% of module mark
Essay/coursework	100

Special assessment rules

None

Indicative reassessment

Task	% of module mark
Essay/coursework	100

Module feedback

Students receive marks and feedback within four weeks of submission.

Indicative reading

Agawu, Kofi. “The Invention of ‘African Rhythm’.” Journal of the American Musicological Society, Vol. 48, no. 3 (Autumn 1995), 380-395.

Barbour, Karen, Donn Ratana, Cheri Waititi and Kim Walker. “Researching Collaborative Artistic Practice.” Waikato Journal of Education 13 (2007).

Foley, Kathy. “Wayang and Gamelan as a Tool of Cultural Learning: Indonesian Puppets, Dance and Music in the Classroom.” Journal for Learning through the Arts 1, no. 1 (2005).

Hess, Juliet. “Decolonizing music education: Moving beyond tokenism.” International Journal of Music Education 33, no. 3 (2015).

Holder, Nathan. “‘African’ drumming, the homogenisation of a continent.” Media Diversified, 2017, https://mediadiversified.org/2017/09/27/african-drumming-the-homogenisation-of-a-continent/

Lewis, Jerome. “A Cross-Cultural Perspective on the Significance of Music and Dance on Culture and Society, with Insight from BaYaka Pygmies”. In Language, Music and the Brain: A mysterious relationship, edited by Michael Arbib, 45-65. Massachusetts: MIT Press, 2013.

Nettl, Bruno. The Study of Ethnomusicology: Thirty-three Discussions. Third ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2015.

Palmer, Anthony. “On Cross-Cultural Music Education.” Journal of Music Teacher Education 4, no. 1 (September 1994): 19–24.

Pettan, Svanibor and Jeff Todd Titon (ed.). An Oxford Handbook of Applied Ethnomusicology, Volumes 1-3. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019.

Tan, Sooi Beng. “Community Musical Theatre and Interethnic Peace-Building in Malaysia.” In The Oxford Handbook of Community Music, edited by Brydie-Leigh Bartleet and Lee Higgins, 243-263.

Trehub, Sandra E, Judith Becker and Iain Morley. “Cross-cultural perspectives on music and musicality.” Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B, vol. 370, 1664 (2015).