The Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology Courses Range from Introductory Courses

Department of Folklore & Ethnomusicology Course Descriptions

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3 4 The Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology courses range from introductory courses for undergraduate students to specialized courses for graduate majors. The program offers students the opportunity to explore topics such as: the role of verbal and material arts and music in human life; the relationship of tradition and change in society; cross-cultural analysis; multiculturalism; verbal and material arts and music in specific world areas; and ethnographic research. Courses are listed in Indiana University's On-line Course Descriptions Program on the World Wide Web (www.indiana.edu/~deanfac/class.shtml) .

The Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology home page address is: www.indiana.edu/~folklore . Please refer to the end of this booklet for a listing of other useful websites.

UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAM

What is Folklore? People throughout the world use tradition in their daily lives and in times of crisis, celebration, and change. Folklore explores the dynamics of tradition and creativity in societies, past and present. Folklorists examine processes of individual creativity and of communication in diverse social and cultural settings.

What is Ethnomusicology? While it is entertaining, music is also serious business--political, social, religious, artistic and economic. Ethnomusicologists study music of all types cross culturally and analyze the role of music in human life.

Folklore & Ethnomusicology at IU The IU undergraduate program reflects the breadth of folklore/ethno study and its links to the arts, area studies, and other disciplines. Departmental courses offer analyses of verbal and musical performance, specific regions, human diversity and worldview, research methods and fieldwork, and the relevance of folklore/ethno study to understanding one's own society and the societies of other regions and periods. There are opportunities for direct student-faculty contact through collaborative research projects, readings courses, and internships. Courses are open to students from any department or school and many fulfill Arts and Humanities and Culture Studies requirements.

Undergraduate Degrees Undergraduates may earn a B.A. degree in Folklore/Ethno. Students may also combine the study of Folklore/Ethno with related disciplines by pursuing a double major or a minor. Students considering a major or minor in the department are encouraged to meet with the Undergraduate 5 Advisor prior to registration. For undergraduate requirements and guidelines, please consult the College Bulletin on the College of Arts & Sciences homepage.

For advice and information on undergraduate programs, please contact the Director of Undergraduate Studies or Undergraduate Advisor:

Dr. Pravina Shukla Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology E-mail: [email protected]

or Krystie Herndon Undergraduate Academic Advisor E-mail: [email protected]

GRADUATE PROGRAM

Graduate Courses Graduate courses include classes on theory and method as well as courses on specific world areas or issues. Using theories from the humanities and social sciences, topics are often approached from an interdisciplinary perspective.

Graduate Degrees The Department offers M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in folklore and a minor in folklore. Students wishing to specialize in ethnomusicology may earn an M.A. or Ph.D. with a concentration in ethnomusicology. (Graduate students in other departments and schools may pursue a minor in ethnomusicology; contact the Director of the Ethnomusicology Program, Dr. Portia Maultsby, for information).

Contact the Folklore/Ethno Director of Graduate Studies for further information and applications:

Dr. Daniel Reed Department of Folklore & Ethnomusicology 812-856-0782 E-mail: [email protected]

or Michelle Melhouse Graduate Recorder 812-855-0389 E-mail: [email protected]

6 UNDERGRADUATE COURSES COLL DISTRIBUTION

A & H – Arts and Humanities S & H – Social and Historical CSA – Cultural Studies List A CSB – Cultural Studies List B TFR – Topics Qualified Course (soon to be CAPPS) IW – Intensive Writing Course

F101 Introduction to Folklore A & H F111 World Music & Cultures A & H F205 Folklore in Video & Film A & H, TFR F210 Myth, Legend, & Popular Science S & H F256 Folklore & the Supernatural A & H, CSB F275 Indigenous Worldviews S & H, CSA E295 Survey of Hip-Hop A & H, CSA E297 Popular Music of Black America A & H, CSA F301 Ghanaian Music, Drum, & Dance A & H, CSA F305 Cultural Diversity in China A & H, CSA F315 Latino Folklore A & H, CSA F330 Music, Health, & Healing S & H F357 American Jewish Popular Music A & H, CSA F358 Introduction to Jewish Folk Literature A & H, CSA F400 Individual Study in Folklore F401 Methods & Theories S & H F402 Traditional Arts Indiana F403 Practicum in Folklore/Ethnomusicology F410 Multimedia in Ethnomusicology A & H F420 Latinos & Hip Hop Culture A & H F497 Advanced Seminar S & H

C103 Music, War, & Peace TFR

For course locations, please check the Schedule of Classes: http://registrar.indiana.edu/scheduleoclasses/prl/soc4118/FOLK/ind ex.html

7 UNDERGRADUATE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS

F101 Introduction to Folklore (3 crs) Course # 3091 11:15A-12:05P MW M. Foster

Fulfills COLL Arts & Humanities

Folklore is alive. It inspires the choices we make every day: how we communicate, what foods we eat, what games we play, what stories we tell, how we interpret the world around us. Folklore reflects our values, our prejudices, our fears, and our desires. The practices, beliefs, and objects that constitute folklore are so intrinsic to our daily lives that they are often overlooked in other disciplines that study human culture, but every culture has folklore and we are all part of the folk.

In this course we will consider the role folklore plays in the lives of people around the world. We will examine a variety of traditional genres, including myth, legend, folktale, joke, gesture, ritual and craft, and we will also explore the way folklore informs our own contemporary lives, from Internet sites and tattooing to urban legends and fraternity/sorority initiation rites.

Throughout the class we will consider different theories of folklore and think critically about the historical development of folkloristics and its relationship to issues of identity, class, ethnicity, and nationalism. Students will also have a chance to venture into the field to collect and analyze folklore themselves.

F111 World Music and Cultures (3 crs) Course # 3097 11:15A-12:05P MW J. León

Fulfills COLL Arts & Humanities, Traditions & Ideas

This course examines a variety of musical traditions from across the globe. Taught from an ethnomusicological perspective, music is explored as complex cultural expression, intensely invested with social, artistic, economic and political meanings. This course seeks to advance knowledge of not only what happens in musical performance, but why. More than mere entertainment, or simply notes on a printed page, music comes alive through an understanding of the people who create and express it. The same music performed in a single context can convey varied meanings. Nuanced interpretations of music often require the 8 investigation of its link to race, gender and even class. Is music then a universal language? F111 explores this pervasive concept.

Through the rich and textured analysis of audio and video recordings, as well as carefully selected reading materials and field experiences, students will develop greater understanding of the role of music in their own lives, as well as the lives of “others,” both near and far.

F205 Folklore in Video & Film (3 crs) Course # 6450 09:30A-10:45A TR J. Johnson

Fulfills COLL A&H, TFR

William Thoms conceived the term Folk Lore in 1846 to name the new discipline centered around the study of tradition. Since the advent of modern media and the World Wide Web, a more standardizing influence has evolved upon folk belief and other kinds of folklore. The new and related discipline of Popular Culture was developed to analyze the standardizing effects on these forms. The difference between folklore and popular culture is sometimes very difficult to determine, if such a distinction can really be made at all. Topics that interest scholars both in folklore and popular culture now appear regularly on film and video. This course will deal with a number of issues of folk belief and worldview reinforced, debated, propagated, and spread by film, video, the web, cinema, television, VCR, and DVD players in modern America. Moreover, the course will explore ways of critically viewing and examining folklore and popular culture in video and film. In spite of the powerful influence of science on contemporary worldview, many people still cling to beliefs others consider illogical and unreasonable. Tools for critical thinking will be explored in readings and discussions. A major goal of this class will be to assist students to develop skills for thinking critically about a wide variety of folk belief common in our times.

As this course has progressed from one semester to the next, students themselves have chosen over half the topics potentially covered in the course. From this list, students choose 10 topics to be thoroughly investigated during the semester in both videos and class debates.

Those topics include:

AIDS Conspiracy Theories Martin Luther King Assassination Alien Abductions Conspiracy Theories Ark of the Covenant Marilyn Monroe Assassination Atlantis Conspiracy Theories Bermuda Triangle Moon Landing Hoax Conspiracy Theories 9 Bigfoot Near Death Experience Chupacabra 9/11 Conspiracy Theories Crop Circles Nostradamus Prophesies Doomsday Prophecies Philadelphia Experiment Exorcism Princess Diana Assassination Conspiracy Garden of Eden Theories Ghosts Psychics Holy Grail (cup) Roswell UFO Crash Holy Grail (Da Vinci Code) Search for Holy Relics Human Cloning Search for Noah’s Ark JFK Assassination Conspiracy Theories Shroud of Turin Jack the Ripper Spontaneous Human Combustion Lincoln Assassination Conspiracy Theories Stigmata Loch Ness (and other Lake Monsters) UFOs Lost Tribes of Israel Yeti (Abominable Snowman)

If the Truth is out there, perhaps you will find it in this course.

F210 Myth, Legend, & Popular Science (3 crs) Course # 28905 04:00P-05:15P MW G. Schrempp

Fulfills COLL Social & Historical

Myths are colorful stories that tell about the origin of the cosmos and about the deeds of larger-than-life characters. Myths are often set in ancient times or said to be "timeless". Legends tell of more recent and/or contemporary events that are memorable or startling. While plausible, legends are often not wholeheartedly believed. Popular science is a contemporary literary genre in which qualified specialists in the various scientific fields explain recent findings in terms that are accessible and appealing--and that often challenge what myth and/or legend have to say about the topic in question. Myth, legend, and popular science all present us with basic propositions about the nature of the world and about how we should live. In this course we will critically compare these three genres, asking what features in each might lead us to place credence in their claims.

F256 Folklore & the Supernatural (3 crs) Course # 31263 01:00P-01:50P TR D. Goldstein

Fulfills COLL Arts & Humanities, Culture Studies List B

Statistics gathered by Gallop Poll together with a variety of other scientific and public opinion surveys indicate that an extremely large percentage of the American and Canadian population not only believe in the supernatural, but in fact, believe that they themselves have had a 10 supernatural or paranormal experience. While most social science disciplines consider supernatural belief to be either historical or marginal, it would seem that a substantial proportion of the North American population, of all ages and social classes, share in these traditions. If this is the case, two questions become enormously important. First, why is it that traditions predicted to decline as scientific rationalism arose, have not? Secondly, why has the extent of belief in the supernatural gone unrecognized and underestimated by the academy for so long? By examining patterns of belief and the features of supernatural folklore, this course will attempt to understand the nature of surviving and declining tradition. The course will focus on the phenomenological features of supernatural traditions; explanatory frameworks and their internal logic; means of developing and maintaining belief; functions and structures of belief traditions; and relationships between genres of belief. The general approach of the course will be ethnographic, focusing on the ethnography of belief systems.

F275 Indigenous Worldviews (3 crs) Course # 31268 08:00A-09:15A TR J. Jackson

Fulfills COLL Social & Historical, Culture Studies List A

A survey of some basic aspects of Indigenous lifeways, this course introduces comparative cultural analysis, providing a foundational course for those interested in thinking about how others think and about how we think about otherness. Students will examine mythology, ritual, health, art, and philosophy within the context of colonialism and globalization. While the emphasis will be on the experiences and circumstances of Indigenous peoples in North America, some comparative attention will be given to Indigenous peoples elsewhere in the Western Hemisphere and globally. General theoretical and methodological perspectives will be introduced in the context of considering specific situations.

E295 Survey of Hip-Hop (3 crs) Course # 9975 11:15A-12:30P MW F. Orejuela

Fulfills COLL Arts & Humanities, Culture Studies List A

Above class MEETS IN A VIRTUAL CLASSROOM ON THE INTERNET FOR LECTURE 2 TIMES PER WEEK.

ABOVE CLASS is taught as a web-based course only, using BREEZE.

11 Only meets on campus 2 times for the Midterm and Final Exams. The Midterm is scheduled for Saturday, October 22nd, 10 am in Woodburn Hall 100. The Final TBA.

Above class students must be enrolled at IUB in order to add this course. Course materials will be available on OnCourse the day before our first meeting.

If you have not been in a BREEZE class room before and are working from home, you MUST go to the following website at: http://www.indiana.edu/~breeze/participant.html

At minimum, do the first item (Test your computer) before the first class session and download the plug-in. If you use a campus cluster computer, those computers are Breeze compatible.

This course examines rap music and hip hop culture as artistic and sociological phenomena with emphasis on historical, cultural, economic and political contexts. Discussions will include the co-existence of various hip hop styles, their appropriation by the music industry, and controversies resulting from the exploitation of hip hop music and culture as a commodity for national and global consumption. Class will meet 2 times on campus for the midterm and the final exams.

Cheryl Keyes’s Rap Music and Street Consciousness will be our main textbook but articles will be made available to you in ONCOURSE RESOURCES throughout the semester.

E297 Popular Music of Black America (3 crs) Course # 28902 04:00P-06:15P TR P. Maultsby

Fulfills COLL Arts & Humanities, Culture Studies List A

Above class meets 2nd 8-weeks only.

A chronological survey of Black popular music from 1945 to 2005-- rhythm & blues, soul, funk, disco, hip hop, and their derivative forms. Emphasis will be placed on the context for evolution, defining musical features, marketing strategies of the music industry, and the contributions of African Americans to the development of a multi-billion dollar music industry and to the broader tradition of American popular music.

12 F301 Ghanaian Music, Drum, & Dance (3 crs) Course # 12208 07:00P-09:30P M B. Woma

Fulfills COLL Arts & Humanities, Culture Studies List A

Above class requires a $50 instrument rental fee.

Meets with Folk-F609. Meets at 800 N. Indiana Ave.

This course is an introduction to African performing arts. Students will be introduced to practical African drumming and dancing as well as learn the performance aspects of these musical genres. The class material will focus mainly on Ghanaian drumming, gyil (xylophone music) and some musical traditions of West Africa. With emphasis on hands-on experience in drumming, singing and dancing, students will also learn the history and social contexts in which these performance genres are organized. There will be a short lecture/discussion at the end of each session on the musical traditions covered in class. Students will be evaluated on how actively they participate in class and their understanding of the performance aspects of the various genres. There will be a performance at the end of the semester and students are required to be part of the performance. Previous music and dance experience is welcome but not required. All materials will be taught orally and through demonstrations.

F305 Cultural Diversity in China (3 crs) Course # 31644 02:30P-03:45P TR S. Tuohy

Fulfills COLL Arts & Humanities, Culture Studies List A

FOLK majors register for section 31644; e-mail [email protected] for authorization.

NON-FOLK majors register for section 13138.

Meets with Folk-F600 and EALC-E350.

This course introduces students to the cultural and human diversity in contemporary China. We will explore the multiple meanings of Chineseness and concepts of individual and group identities. Although the course will focus on modern China, and particularly the People’s Republic of China, issues will be contextualized in relation to Chinese history and interactions beyond Chinese borders. Among the broad questions to be addressed are: What is China? Who are Chinese? What is Chinese culture? And who says? 13 Individual class topics will cover diverse forms of diversity and human affiliations, from ethnic, class, gender, gender, generational, regional, and linguistic to rural and urban and local and national. Many class sessions will emphasize artistic and expressive forms (music, material culture, film, verbal genres, and tourism) and the roles they play in shaping and representing identities.

Required readings will include a book along with readings available through e-reserves. Among the graded components will be short written assignments, quizzes, and exams, along with class attendance, preparation of readings, and participation.

F315 Latino Folklore (3 crs) Course # 31869 02:30P-03:45P MW M. Martinez-Rivera

Fulfills COLL Arts & Humanities, Culture Studies List A

Above class meets with LATS-L398.

Latino communities in the United States are as culturally rich and diverse as their countries of origin. The United States, moreover, provides a platform for the proliferation, transformation, and adaptation of cultural practices. Therefore, the study of Latino folklore in the United States offers an amazing opportunity to analyze how communities are maintained even when they are in constant fluctuation, and how cultural expressions play a central part in the continuity and transformation of community.

This course cannot be inclusive of all US Latinos, but we will study a wide array of cultural manifestations—oral traditions, music, festivals, dance, material culture, healing and spirituality—while also paying attention to wider debates concerning migration, gender, nationalism, and identity. The course will begin with an overview of the study of folklore and of Latino Studies. The remainder of the course will be divided into five main themes—migration, gender, nationalism, and identity and the interrelation between them—and how different cultural practices and traditional expressive forms help express, negotiate, transform, and maintain Latino communities in the United States.

14 F330 Music, Health, & Healing (3 crs) Course # 28906 02:30P-03:45P TR J. Cohen

Fulfills COLL Social & Historical

Music has had a long history of integration with practices of spiritual and physical healing. In this course, we will explore how music helps us think about discourses of healing and health, both culturally and medically. What do we mean when we talk about “healing” or about music’s relation to healing? How can we understand the field of music therapy? Can we measure the effects of music on the body? How is music used to promote certain kinds of health messages (and how are those message received)? We will address these and other key questions through an exploration of American, international, and transnational case studies.

F357 American Jewish Popular Music (3 crs) Course # 30310 02:30P-03:45P MW J. Cohen

Fulfills COLL Arts & Humanities, Culture Studies List A

Jewish Studies students register for section # 31269; e-mail [email protected] for authorization.

How does a small minority population create its own “popular music”? In this course, we will explore the many ways American Jews have addressed the idea of popular music over the last century. Through a combination of listening, reading, analysis and discussion, we will examine how American Jewish communities have adapted popular music styles, built up music stars, and created music labels and production companies.

F358 Introduction to Jewish Folk Literature (3 crs) Course # 31270 11:15A-12:30P TR H. Bar-Itzhak

Fulfills COLL Arts & Humanities, Culture Studies List A

Meets with JSTU-J303.

Jewish folk literature has a long historical record. Among the Jews written sources played a great role in creation and transmission of folklore. The tendency developed among the Jews in early times was to put down in writing folk literature as well as folk customs and beliefs. We

15 can trace folk literary forms in Biblical and Rabbinic literature and Jewish literature in the Middle Ages.

Because of the dispersion of the Jews among many peoples and in different countries, Jewish folklore in general and folk literature in particular is comprised of many common elements, but also separate local developments, which include features related to the local non- Jewish folklore.

Such a historical depth and cultural diversity add to the richness and complexity of Jewish folk literature.

The course is an introduction to this literary folk tradition. We will concentrate on folk literature in ancient Jewish sources as well as modern Jewish folk literature of various Jewish ethnic groups. We will explore trends of continuity and change in Jewish folk literature and discuss ethnographic, poetic and thematic aspects such as the recording of folk literature in the natural environment while examining the storytelling event and performance; Poetic aspects such as character, space, time, genre; and the main themes in Jewish folk literature.

Course Requirements There is no prerequisite for the course. All the required readings are in English. The classes will consist of lectures and discussions, and the weekly reading assignments. At the end of the semester students shall take a final examination.

F400 Individual Study in Folklore (1-3 crs) Course # AUTH ARR ARR ARR

Obtain course contract form and on-line authorization for above class from department Graduate Recorder, [email protected].

P: Must have consent of the faculty member supervising research. Students enrolled in this course will work under the close supervision of a faculty member. Projects may entail fieldwork, archival or library research, or a combination of these methods, subject to mutual agreement between the student and the supervising faculty member.

16 F401 Methods & Theories (3 crs) Course # xxxxx 01:00P-02:15P MW F. Orejuela

Fulfills COLL Social & Historical

Above class priority given to majors and minors. Contact [email protected] to obtain online authorization.

The purpose of this course is to introduce students to principle theories and methods in the two fields composing our department, Folklore and Ethnomusicology. Folklorists and ethnomusicologists study the meanings of expressive forms in the everyday lives of individuals and their roles in society. Our two fields share a common focus on forms of artistic performance and expressive culture. Our scholarship also demonstrates a shared interest in the study of people and their artistic productions. Our research aims to contribute to the understanding of social processes, artistic practices, and human creativity.

We will engage in discussions on the following: (1) examining the convergences and divergences of the two fields; (2) their histories and current research paradigms; (3) basic concepts such as community, tradition, genre, performance; (4) research methods; and (5) the issues associated with presenting/representing people in the public setting.

Required textbooks: 1. Bauman, Richard (ed.). 1992. Folklore, Cultural Performances, and Popular Entertainments: A Communications-Centered Handbook. New York: Oxford University Press. 2. Ruth Stone. 2007. Theory for Ethnomusicology. New York: Prentice Hall.

F402 Traditional Arts Indiana (1-3 crs) Course # AUTH ARR ARR ARR

F402 is a practicum and is graded on a deferred R grade basis.

Section requires permission of instructor to register. Contact [email protected].

Traditional Arts Indiana (TAI), a partnership of the Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology and the Indiana Arts Commission, identifies, documents, and presents traditional arts throughout Indiana. Under TAI supervision, students will learn to work with field materials, develop

17 resource materials, and assist in the public sector programs within the context of a statewide arts program.

In this class, students have an opportunity to choose hands-on participation in aspects of these initiatives (e.g., fieldwork, planning exhibits and programs, media applications, publications) as well as reflect on their work through assigned readings and journal writing.

F403 Practicum in Folklore/Ethnomusicology (1-3 crs) Course # AUTH ARR ARR ARR

Obtain course contract form and on-line authorization for above class from department Graduate Recorder, [email protected].

P: Must have consent of the faculty member supervising research. Individualized, supervised work in publicly oriented programs in folklore or ethnomusicology, such as public arts agencies, museums, historical commissions, and archives. Relevant readings and written reports required.

F410 Multimedia in Ethnomusicology (3 crs) Course # 28909 08:00A-09:15A TR N. Fales

Fulfills COLL Arts & Humanities

Meets with Folk-F510.

This course is an introduction to multimedia techniques in the collection, analysis, preservation, and presentation of ethnographic data. Though it includes readings in the theory and history of various practices, the course is largely hands-on in nature, with both laboratory and field components. Additionally, the class will visit several labs and studios on campus, and will host visits from specialists in areas relevant to audiovisual production. Assignments generally consist of exercises in documentation, post-production, and analysis, with a final project that combines several methods explored in class into a finished product.

18 F420 Latinos & Hip Hop Culture (3 crs) Course # 12217 11:15A-12:30P TR F. Orejuela

Fulfills COLL Arts & Humanities

Above class meets with LATS-L398, #29809

This course begins to organize and debate Latino participation, invention, intention, and appropriation of hip hop culture inside and outside of the United States.

Latino communities in the United States are diverse and it is important for us to explore the processes through which Latino youth negotiate origin myths, migration, nationalism, identity, globalization, imitation, appropriation, and how they use art and music in their everyday lives to construct their role in this music scene. We will study the cultural manifestation of hip hop from a variety of perspectives: African America, the Diaspora, and the concepts of mestizaje and “triangulation of cultures” that compound many Latino identities.

The course is limited to 25 students and the format is split between lecture and round-table discussion of assigned readings.

Most importantly, the course is not about music appreciation; rather we will investigate the ways Latino youth create art, music and subcultures of hip hop.

F497 Advanced Seminar (3 crs) Course # xxxxx 01:00P-02:15P TR S. Tuohy

Fulfills COLL Social & Historical

Meets at 501 N. Park Ave.

Priority is given to FOLK majors. Authorization is required for this course – contact [email protected] for authorization.

This is the capstone seminar for majors in the Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology (other students should contact the instructor for approval to enroll in the course). The course provides an opportunity for students 1) to consolidate and build upon knowledge learned through individual courses and experiences; 2) to apply that knowledge in a sustained project of significant intellectual and/or practical value to be completed this semester; and 3) to prepare for their futures.

19 Students will complete a common core of readings on topics such basic concepts in folklore/ethnomusicology and techniques for research, writing, and other modes of presentation. The bulk of the semester's work, however, will be specific to each student's individual project and needs. Students also will complete a portfolio of their work to date, with an eye toward future educational and career plans. Class members will meet together in a seminar setting to discuss projects, portfolios, and relevant theories and methods. And they will work in collaboration to support and improve upon their work.

As in all classes, the course will help students to continue to refine skills in communication, research, critical thinking, and scholarship--including research methods, conceptualization, evaluation and use of relevant sources, and writing. With an emphasis on the work of synthesis and reflection, the primary aim for F497 is for students to emerge from this course--and from their experience in the department and at IU--feeling competent in their chosen field and confident that the knowledge they have acquired can be transformed into worthwhile endeavors in the near and distant future.

COLL-C103 Music, War, & Peace (3 crs) Course # 29213 09:05A-09:55A MW D. McDonald

As part of the College of Arts and Sciences 2011-2012 Themester, Making War Making Peace, this course is designed to explore the dynamics of music, social conflict, and conflict resolution. Over the course of the semester we will investigate the capacities of music to enact fundamental aspects of identity, self, and other. From these initial discussions we will then consider a variety of case studies wherein music was employed as a tool for generating and sustaining war, violence, and other forms of social conflict. Following this, we will then survey cross- cultural moments where music played an essential role in generating and sustaining peace, conflict resolution, and other humanitarian movements. At the heart of these discussions, however, will be an investigation into the role of expressive culture in reflecting, generating, and sustaining political and other social movements. Our meetings will take many forms, extending beyond the classroom to include discussions, film screenings, cultural activities, and performance demonstrations.

20 GRADUATE COURSES

A – Area F – Form T – Theory

F501 Ethnomusicology Colloquy* F501 Folklore Colloquy* F510 Multimedia in Ethnomusicology F F516 Folklore Theory in Practice* F517 History of Folklore Study* E522 The Study of Ethnomusicology F, T F528 Advanced Fieldwork F F545 Israeli Folk Narratives F F600 Cultural Diversity in China A, T F600 Heritage Tourism in East Asia A, T F609 Ghanaian Music, Drumming, & Dance A E698 Popular Music of Black America A, F F712 Body Art: Dress & Adornment T, F F722 Cultural Performance: Theories & Ethnographies T, F F800 Research in Folklore F801 Teaching Folklore/Ethnomusicology F802 Traditional Arts Indiana F803 Practicum in Folklore/Ethnomusicology F850 Thesis/Research/Dissertation G599 Master’s Thesis G901 Advanced Research

For course locations check the Schedule of Classes: http://registrar.indiana.edu/scheduleoclasses/prl/soc4118/FOLK/ind ex.html

*This is a required course and therefore does not fulfill Form, Area, or Theory for Folklore track students.

21 GRADUATE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS

F501 Ethnomusicology Colloquy (3 crs) Course # 10466 04:00P-06:30P M J. León

This course is for majors only.

This course introduces students to major points of correspondence and convergence between folklore and ethnomusicology. It is designed to engage students in a dialogue that explores the grounds for integration of these lines of inquiry based upon their conceptual frameworks, research methodologies, theoretical perspectives, modes of professional engagement, and intellectual histories.

Folklore and ethnomusicology are interdisciplinary fields that both borrow from and contribute to a number of disciplines with which they share common concerns and approaches. In addition to works by ethnomusicologists and folklorists, the syllabus includes readings drawn from anthropology, history, linguistics, and musicology. The course is organized around concepts and research methods central to our disciplines, enduring issues that transcend historical shifts of scholarly emphasis.

Among the primary objectives of the course are to understand the dimensions of key theoretical concepts and attendant methods, examine their configuration within particular folklore and ethnomusicological works, and explore their application and utility in our own research.

F501 Folklore Colloquy (3 crs) Course # 3111 04:00P-06:30P M J. McDowell

This course is for majors only.

Folklore and ethnomusicology are interdisciplinary fields that both borrow from and contribute to a number of disciplines with which they share

22 common concerns and approaches. In addition to works by ethnomusicologists and folklorists, the syllabus includes readings drawn from anthropology, history, linguistics, and musicology. The course is organized around concepts and research methods central to our disciplines, enduring issues that transcend historical shifts of scholarly emphasis.

F510 Multimedia in Ethnomusicology (3 crs) Course # 28910 08:00A-09:15A TR N. Fales

Fulfills Form

Meets with Folk-F410.

F516 Folklore Theory in Practice (3 crs) Course # 3112 02:30P-05:00P T J. Jackson

This course is a graduate seminar that introduces students to the field of folklore studies (folkloristics). Students will encounter the major theories and methods that have been developed in folkloristics for the study of expressive forms and vernacular cultures in social and historical context. To pursue such inquiry requires grappling with the key debates and social contexts that have shaped the study of folklore. Important case studies from the literature of folkloristics will be examined, appreciated, critiqued and contextualized. Students will become familiar with a range of approaches to the study of expressive culture in four broad generic areas: (1) verbal folklore, (2) material culture, (3) composite and performance genres, and (4) customary knowledge and practice. Folkloristics will be situated within a wider constellation of disciplines and 23 interdisciplinary projects concerned with the human condition and we will begin to wrestle with the distinctive roles that folklorists might play in the contemporary world.

F517 History of Folklore Study (3 crs) Course # 28911 04:00P-06:30P R G. Schrempp

This will be a course in the intellectual history of the study of folklore. The goal will be to contextualize folkloristic concerns within the major theoretical currents that have shaped the social sciences and humanities broadly in the nineteenth, twentieth, and early twenty-first centuries (including social evolutionism, diffusionism, psychoanalysis, structuralism, formalism, performance theory, and postmodernism). The readings will be classic works that reflect such currents. We will approach the readings both in terms of the intellectual assumptions belonging to milieux in which they arose, and with an eye towards determining what aspects of them might be brought forward and made useful to our present-day endeavors.

The reading load will be heavy. Students will make at least one oral presentation on a course reading, and will write two analytical essays (selected from assigned topics) focusing on course readings.

E522 The Study of Ethnomusicology (3 crs) Course # 9848 10:00A-12:30P W D. McDonald

Fulfills Form or Theory

This course is designed to provide the student with a working knowledge of the intellectual history, major concepts, theoretical approaches, analytical techniques, and field methodologies inherent to the discipline of ethnomusicology. In particular, this course will be broken into three interrelated sections. First, we will examine the various ways in which the field has been defined over time. Second, we will survey the myriad activities ethnomusicologists have undertaken throughout their careers. And third, we will explore basic theoretical premises and analytical paradigms routinely employed in ethnomusicological scholarship.

24 F528 Advanced Fieldwork (3 crs) Course # 28912 08:15A-10:45A M C. Henderson

Fulfills Form and a core requirement in ethnomusicology. Prerequisite: F523

This course will provide upper level graduate students with further experience conducting fieldwork, while guiding them through explorations of some of the under-emphasized components of ethnography. In addition to utilizing conventional fieldwork tools such as audio and video recordings and still photography, students will explore experimental and experiential approaches to fieldwork. They will investigate the role of the senses (sight, taste, smell, sound, touch) in ethnography, as well as reflect on the significance of movement, gesture, and bodily discourse within research contexts and within the ethnographer’s physical engagement with his/her research. They will also consider how identifiers such as race, age, and gender influence interactions between researcher and research participants, and provide or restrict access to cultural knowledge. The course will link the theoretical aspects of ethnography with practical assignments that provide students opportunities to experience different ways of knowing, and to experiment with different methods for gaining entry to cultural perspectives. Through collaboration and group critique, the course will also help students develop skills for synthesizing, analyzing, and writing up the information collected during these practical exercises. The course is designed to assist students in evaluating their individual strengths and limitations within fieldwork contexts, with the aim of helping them discover their own style of ethnography. As students clarify their individual approach to ethnography, and begin to shape their dissertation topics and research agendas, they will write a dissertation fieldwork proposal for possible submission to a granting agency.

F545 Israeli Folk Narratives (3 crs) Course # 31271 04:00P-06:15P W H. Bar-Itzhak

Fulfills Form

In this seminar we will concentrate on three main folk narratives in Israeli society – the narratives of settlement, immigration and ethnicity. All these narratives are polyphonic in Israeli culture. The aggregate of stories told by various narrators or written down create the Israeli settlement folk narrative with all its complexity. By uncovering this complexity we will learn about the importance of folk narratives toward understanding Israeli society and culture. 25 Dealing with settlement narratives we will concentrate on both "big" cultural narratives – what came to be designated as myths of Israeli culture, and narratives from the periphery. The study of local legends will indicate the importance of these legends for understanding and interpreting Israeli culture. While examining various stories we will uncover their symbolic dimension, the complexity of the whole settlement narrative, and the ethos of the society.

Dealing with the immigration narrative we will analyze stories of immigration and integration as told by various Jewish ethnic groups. We will discuss the expression of the traumatic meeting with Israeli reality, and the way these stories provide a means for coming to grip with it. These stories will also uncover the cultural outlook of different Jewish ethnic groups in Israel.

Israel today is a multicultural society. Despite the attempt made in the 1950s to fuse immigrants into a national 'melting pot' and provide them with an uniform culture, there is a returning to patterns of ethnic culture many years after immigration. We will analyze folk narratives of several Jewish ethnic groups in Israel and point out to the Jews' experience of ethnicity in Israel as the ethnicity of Jews vis-à-vis other Jews, rather than the ethnic identity in the Diaspora of a religious minority among non- Jews.

Course Requirements There is no prerequisite for course. All the required readings are in English. The classes will consist of lectures and discussions, and the weekly reading assignments. At the end of the semester students shall prepare a term paper.

F600 Cultural Diversity in China (3 crs) Course # 29464 02:30P-03:45P TR S. Tuohy

Fulfills Area or Theory

Meets with Folk-F305 and EALC-E350.

This course focuses on cultural and human diversity in contemporary China and on issues and processes of group identity. We will explore the multiple meanings of Chineseness. Among the broad questions to be addressed are: What is China? Who are Chinese? What is Chinese culture? And who says? Although the course will focus on modern China, and particularly the People’s Republic of China, issues will be 26 contextualized in relation to Chinese history and interactions beyond Chinese borders.

Individual class topics will cover diverse forms of diversity and human affiliations, from ethnic, class, gender, gender, generational, regional, and linguistic to rural and urban and local and national. Many class sessions will emphasize artistic and expressive forms (music, material culture, film, verbal genres, and tourism) and the roles they play in shaping and representing identities.

This course is cross-listed in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures.

F600 Heritage Tourism in East Asia (3 crs) Course # 29465 04:00P-06:30P W M. Foster

Fulfills Area or Theory

This seminar has two objectives: 1) to introduce students to critical theoretical discourses of tourism, with a focus on notions of heritage, authenticity, and nostalgia; and 2) to explore these issues within the specific context of tourism in East Asia (Japan, Korea, China).

The first part of the course will focus on tourism from cultural and symbolic perspectives, paying particular attention to the tourist gaze and the relationship of the visitor to the people/culture being visited. We will interrogate what it means to invoke words such as “heritage,” “authentic,” and “traditional.” How and why do cultures present an “authentic” self to a visiting other? What is “intangible cultural heritage” and how has it been codified by cultural policy makers such as UNESCO? What is nostalgia? How is it commodified and in turn, how does it drive cultural production? Against this theoretical backdrop, in the second part of the course we will examine a range of case studies from East Asia, considering the particular ways in which tourism is enacted within this broad geographic region. Throughout the course we will keep in mind the interplay of global and local interests as well as the parallels between the tourist experience and the work of the ethnographer.

27 No background in tourism studies or Asian languages/history is required for this course.

F609 Ghanaian Music, Drumming, & Dance (3 crs) Course # 12287 07:00P-09:30P M B. Woma

Fulfills Area

Meets with Folk-F301

Meets at 800 N. Indiana Ave.

E698 African American Religious Music (3 crs) Course # 28904 01:00P-03:30P T M. Burnim

Fulfills Area

Meets with AAAD-A697 and AMST-G620.

Using both a socio-cultural and a historical perspective, this course explores the major forms of African American religious music indigenous to the United States, (Negro Spirituals and gospel music), as well as those Euro-American musical expressions that have emerged as integral parts of the African American worship experience. Students are engaged in multi-layered experiences of history, aesthetics and ethnography through the frequent utilization of audio and video recordings, as well as participant observation in African American churches. The course format is both diachronic and synchronic, so designed to assist students in recognizing relationships between different 28 forms of African American musical expression, despite their differing time frames and contexts of origin.

REQUIRED TEXTBOOKS: Burnim, Mellonee and Portia Maultsby, ed. African American Music: An Introduction. New York: Routledge, 2006. Reagon, Bernice, ed. We’ll Understand It Better By and By: Pioneering African American Gospel Composers. Washington & London: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1992.(WELLS LIBRARY RESERVE) Southern, Eileen, ed. Readings in Black American Music. New York: Norton, 1997. The African American Heritage Hymnal. Chicago: GIA, 2001. Allen, William Francis, et. al. Slave Songs of the United States. Bedford, Mass.: Applewood, 1867 (reprint). E-Reserve reading packet. Main Library. (Password: query)

REQUIRED LISTENING: Wade in the Water. Smithsonian/Folkways & National Public Radio, 1994. (Four vol. CD set)

F712 Body Art: Dress & Adornment (3 crs) Course # 28913 11:30A-02:00P T P. Shukla

Fulfills Theory or Form

This seminar analyzes the different ways in which human beings throughout the world shape, clothe, ornament, and decorate their bodies, focusing on the meaningful communication of these artistic forms. Class topics will include tattoo, scarification, face painting, makeup, henna, hair, jewelry, and dress in all of its varieties, from daily attire, to costume and folk dress.

F722 Cultural Performance: Theories & Ethnographies (3 crs) Course # 9849 01:00P-03:30P W S. Tuohy

Fulfills Form or Theory; fulfills a requirement for the Social and Cultural Theory track in Ethnomusicology

This course will examine cultural performances—a broad category of cultural forms ranging from festivals, musical mega-events, political rituals and sporting events to touristic performances, worlds fairs, museums and other curated spaces--through theoretical texts and ethnographies. Focusing particularly on ethnographic approaches, the 29 course is designed to introduce theories and methods for studying practices involved in the production of culture and performance of identity.

The course begins with an article by Milton Singer (1955) which introduces a broad concept of cultural performance that includes forms such as rituals, concerts, film, and textual performances as well as attendant cultural stages, cultural specialists, and cultural media. Viewing them as communicative events and forms for the exhibition of culture, Singer articulates a general methodology for focusing on cultural performance as a basic unit of observation in the study of culture and the social organization of tradition. Subsequent class sessions will introduce related perspectives that provide useful approaches for understanding the aesthetic, symbolic, and organizational dimensions of public performance. These include theoretical concepts such as social drama (Victor Turner), language as social action (Austin), performance studies (Bauman and Schechner), public performance of gender and sexuality (Judith Butler), deep play (Geertz), and the dramaturgical analysis of social life (Irving Goffman). During the semester, we—individually and together as a class--will read several ethnographies.

During a portion of the semester, students will work together in groups to prepare and present class materials for the week. Written work will include short assignments, such as précis and discussions of ethnographies, as well as a longer paper on a related topic chosen individually by each class member.

F800 Research in Folklore (1-6 crs) Course # AUTH ARR ARR ARR

Obtain course contract form and on-line authorization for above class from department Graduate Recorder, [email protected].

P: Must have consent of faculty member supervising research. This course is designed to allow advanced students to receive credit for independent work done with the permission and supervision of a member of the faculty.

30 F801 Teaching Folklore/Ethnomusicology (3 crs) Course # 3114 12:30P-03:00P M D. Goldstein

Meets at 501 N. Park Ave.

This course will address both practical and theoretical issues arising in the teaching of Folklore and Ethnomusicology with the objective of preparing students for a career that might include teaching as a primary or secondary focus.

It fulfills the teaching course requirement for AIs in Folklore and Ethnomusicology, but all interested students are welcome to enroll.

F802 Traditional Arts Indiana (1-6 crs) Course # AUTH ARR ARR ARR

F802 is a practicum and is graded on a deferred R grade basis.

Section requires permission of instructor to register. Contact [email protected].

F803 Practicum in Folklore/Ethnomusicology (1-3 crs) Course # AUTH ARR ARR ARR

Obtain course contract form and on-line authorization for above class from department Graduate Recorder, [email protected].

31 commissions, and archives. Relevant readings and written report required. May be repeated.

F850 Thesis/Research/Dissertation (1-12 crs) Course # 3116 ARR ARR

Above section for students on the Bloomington Campus. No authorization is required.

Thesis/Project credit for M.A. students writing thesis or completing a master’s project (a maximum of 6 cr. hours) and Ph.D. candidates (a maximum of 30 cr. hours).

F850 Thesis/Research/Dissertation (1-12 crs) Course # AUTH ARR ARR

Above section is for students who are not in Bloomington only.

Obtain on-line authorization for above class from department Graduate Recorder, [email protected].

Thesis/Project credit for M.A. students writing thesis or completing a master’s project (a maximum of 6 cr. hours) and Ph.D. candidates (a maximum of 30 cr. hours).

G599 Master’s Thesis Course # AUTH ARR ARR

Obtain on-line authorization for above class from the department Graduate Recorder, [email protected].

This course is for international, Master’s level students who have enrolled in 30 or more hours of graduate course work applicable to the degree and who have completed all other requirements for the degree except the thesis, final project, or performance.

32 G901 Advanced Research (6 crs) Course # AUTH ARR

Obtain on-line authorization for above class from department Graduate Recorder, [email protected].

This course, for which a flat fee is charged, was set up to meet the 6- hour registration requirement for post 90-hour doctoral candidates whom hold assistantships. Post 90-hour students who do not hold assistantships may also enroll in G901 if they desire.

Requirements: Doctoral students who have completed 90 or more hours of graduate course work who have completed all requirements for their degree except the dissertation. Students are not allowed to take more than six (6) semesters.

33 HELPFUL LINKS

Department of Folklore & Ethnomusicology homepage: http://www.indiana.edu/~folklore/

Office of the Registrar’s Schedule of Classes: http://registrar.indiana.edu/scheofclass.shtml

Online course descriptions: http://www.indiana.edu/%7Edeanfac/class.html

Office of the Registrar’s Course Information: http://registrar.indiana.edu/~registra/stu_courseinfo.shtml

University Graduate School Bulletin: http://www.indiana.edu/~bulletin/iu/grad/2009-2010/

College of Arts & Sciences Undergraduate Academic Bulletin: http://www.iu.edu/~bulletin/iub/college/2010-2011/

Guide to the Preparation of Theses & Dissertations: http://www.graduate.indiana.edu/preparing-theses-and-dissertations.php