SEMESTER AT SEA COURSE SYLLABUS Voyage: Summer 2013 Discipline: Music MUSI 2570: Musical Cultures of the Mediterranean Division: Lower Division Faculty: Jonathan H. Shannon Pre-requisites: None COURSE DESCRIPTION In this class we will explore a variety of musical cultures of the Mediterranean region, including North Africa, the Levant, and southern Europe. Themes will include music and national identity, gender and sexuality, emotion and meaning, and music and globalization in the Mediterranean region. Readings on specific musical cultures will be complemented by recordings, field trips, and concerts when possible. COURSE OBJECTIVES Students will learn the main varieties of Mediterranean musics and how to analyze them as cultural practices, both in writing and orally. Field Labs will introduce students to aspects of historical and contemporary Mediterranean musical cultures. REQUIRED TEXTBOOKS AUTHOR: Goffredo Plastino TITLE: Mediterranean Mosaic: Popular Music and Global Sounds PUBLISHER: Routledge ISBN #: 041593656X DATE/EDITION: 2002 AUTHOR: Tullia Magrini TITLE: Music and Gender: Perspectives from the Mediterranean PUBLISHER: University of Chicago Press ISBN #: 9780226501666 DATE/EDITION: 2003 AUTHOR: Bernard Lortat-Jacob TITLE: Sardinian Chronicles. PUBLISHER: University of Chicago Press ISBN #: 9780226493411 DATE/EDITION: 1995 Readings available as electronic resources are marked “web”. Others are available online and are marked (“online at...”). Optional readings are marked “Opt.” 1 OUTLINE OF COURSE C1- June 19: Mediterranean Musics and Cultures: An Introduction • Questions: Where and What is the Mediterranean? What is “Mediterranean culture” and does it exist? What are some stereotypes of the Mediterranean, its peoples and cultures? • Readings: 1. Plastino, “Introduction,” Med. Mosaic • Writing: The Mediterranean Imagined and Experienced • Listening: Selections of Mediterranean musics C2- June 20: The Mediterranean in Anthropological Perspective • Questions: How have anthropologists studied Mediterranean cultures? What are some of the problems with the idea of Mediterranean culture? How might music help us understand these dilemmas? • Readings: 1. Albera and Blok, “Introduction The Mediterranean as a Field of Ethnological Study: A Retrospective” (web) 2. Herzfeld, “The Horns of the Mediterraneanist Dilemma” (web) • Listening: Selections of Mediterranean musics C3- June 21: The Mediterranean in Historical and Geographical Perspective • Questions: How have historians and geographers studied Mediterranean cultures? How can historical and geographical studies influence our analysis of Mediterranean musical cultures? • Readings: 1. Braudel, The Mediterranean ... (Part I pp. 25-102) (web) • Listening: Selections of Mediterranean musics C4- June 22: Mediterranean Musics: Definitions • Questions: What are the varieties of Mediterranean musical cultures? How have they been studied? • Readings: 1. Fabbri, “Paint It Black, Cat.” Ch. 1 in Med. Mosaic 2. Seroussi, “Yam Tikhoniyut.” Ch. 7 in Med. Mosaic • Listening: Selections of Moroccan Andalusian music June 23-June 26: Casablanca Optional Field Trip Visit to Dar al-Ala Andalusian Music Museum C5- June 27: Mediterranean Musics and Identities: Nationalism and Music I • Questions: How have national subjectivities been constructed in Mediterranean musics? • Readings: 1. Frishkopf, “Some Meanings of the Spanish Tinge...” Ch. 6 in Med. Mosaic 2. Horowitz, “Israeli Mediterranean Music.” (web) 2 C6- June 28: Mediterranean Musics and Identities: Nationalism and Music II • Questions: How have national subjectivities been constructed in Mediterranean musics? • Readings: 1. Caleta, “Klapa Singing and Ca-Val.” Ch. 10 in Med. Mosaic. 2. Shannon, “Performing al-Andalus, Remembering al-Andalus.” (Web) • Listening: Klapa and Andalusi musics C7- June 29: North African Musics • Questions: What are the features of North African Popular and Traditional musics? How are they Mediterranean? • Readings: 1. Davis, “‘New Sounds, Old Tunes’.” Ch. 5 in Med. Mosaic 2. Glasser, “Andalusi Music as Circulatory Practice.” (Web) 3. Virolle, “Representations and Female Roles...” Ch. 8 in Music and Gender • Listening: Selections of Mediterranean musics June 30: No Classes C8- July 1: Musics of the Levant I: The Classical Tradition • Questions: How was the classical Arab tradition formed? What are its major aesthetic elements? • Readings: 1. Danielson, “Min al-Mashayikh” (web) 2. Danielson, The Voice of Egypt, Chapter 1 (web/reserve) 3. Shannon, Among the Jasmine Trees, Chapter 1 (web/reserve) • Listening: Selections of classical Arab music • Class Presentations: Tunis Reports C9- July 2: Musics of the Levant II: Popular Musics • Questions: What are some characteristic features of Levantine popular music? What is the role of music in revolution? • Readings: 1. Danielson, “New Nightingales of The Nile.” (web) 2. LeVine, “New Hybridities.” (online at http://www.jadaliyya.com/pages/index/3008/the- new-hybridities-of-arab-musical-intifadas) 3. Swedenburg. “Saida Sultan/Danna International.” (web) OR Post 9/11 World Music • Listening: Selections of Arab pop music and hip hop • Video: Selections from LaTlateh, The Syrian Bear, Omar Offendum, and other music videos July 3-5: Antalya C10- July 5: Turkish Music I • Questions: What are the classical and popular forms of music in Turkey? How have they been studied? 3 • Readings: 1. Özer, “Crossing the Boundaries.” Ch. 8 in Med. Mosaic 2. Potuoglu-Cook, “Sweat, Power, and Art: Situating Belly Dancers and Musicians in Contemporary Istanbul” (online at http://www.fondazionelevi.it/ma/index/number11/potuoglu/pot_0.htm) • Listening: Arabesk music • Writing: The sounds of Alexandria C11- July 6: Turkish Music II • Questions: How has emotion come to be a defining component of Turkish nationalism, and what role does music play in this? • Readings: 1. Stokes, “The Tearful Public Sphere.” Ch. 13 in Music and Gender. 2. Stokes, “Beloved Istanbul.” Online at: http://tinyurl.com/StokesIstanbul. • Listening: • Arabesk, Zeki Müren, Bülent Ersoy July 8-11: Istanbul Potential Field Trip: Concert, Musical Tour of Istanbul with Prof. Ozan Aksoy C12- July 12: Greek Music I: Overview • Questions: What are the main features of the Mediterranean musics of Greece? • Readings: 1. Dawe, “Between East and West.” Ch. 9 in Med. Mosaic 2. Fabbri, “Tilos” (online at http://www.fondazionelevi.it/ma/index/number10/fabbri/fab_0.htm) 3. Holst-Warhaft, “Nisiotika.” (online at http://www.fondazionelevi.it/ma/index/number10/holst/holst_0.htm) • Listening: Greek folk and popular musics C13- July 13: Greek Music II: Rebetika • Questions: What is rebetika (rebetiko) music? How are modern subjectivities performed through this music? • Readings: 1. Holst-Warhaft, “The Female Dervish & Other Shady Ladies.” Ch. 6 in Music and Gender 2. Monos, “Rebetico” (web) • Listening: Rebetika music; video: Rembetiko, by Kostas Ferris (selections) July 14-17: Piraeus Optional Field Trip: Visit to Rebetika club • Writing: The Sounds of Piraeus C14- July 18: Italian Mediterranean Music I • Questions: What is “Italian” Mediterranean music? How has this category of music been 4 constructed? • Readings: 1. Plastino, “Inventing Ethnic Music.” Ch. 11 in Med. Mosaic. 2. Plastino, “Come into Play.” Ch. 5 in Music and Gender. • Listening: Italian Mediterranean Music C15- July 19: Mediterranean Musics and Identities: Gender and Music • Questions: How is gender performed through music? How are Mediterranean musics gendered performances? • Readings: 1. Magrini, “Introduction,” Music and Gender 2. Pettan, “Male, Female, and Beyond...” Ch. 12 in Music and Gender 3. Sugarman, “Those ‘Other Women’...” Ch. 3 in Music and Gender • Listening: Selections of Mediterranean Musics • Review for Midterm C16- July 20: Mid-term Examination July 21-23: Livorno July 24-26: Civitavecchia C17- July 27: Musics of Mediterranean Islands I: Sardinia • Questions: What are the relationships among music, culture, and forms of representation? • Readings: 4. Lortat-Jacob, Sardinian Chronicles. • Listening: Sardinian song (from CD of Sardinian Chronicles). • Writing: The Sounds of Marseilles C18- July 28: Musics of Mediterranean Islands II: Crete, Corsica, Malta, Sicily • Questions: What are some of the characteristics of the musics of Mediterranean islands? • Readings: 5. Bithell, “A Man’s Game?” Ch. 1 in Music and Gender 6. Fugazzotto, “A Musical Journey” (online at http://www.fondazionelevi.it/ma/index/number9/fuga/sic_0e.htm). 7. Magrini, “Manhood and Music in Western Crete.” (web) • Listening: Selections of Mediterranean Musics July 29-31: Malta Field Lab: Maltese Music C19- August 1: Musics of Spain I: Flamenco • Questions: What is Flamenco music and how did it develop into a contested symbol of the Spanish nation? 5 • Readings: 8. Labajo, “Body and Voice.” Ch. 2 in Music and Gender 9. Malefyt, “Inside and Outside Spanish Flamenco.” (web) 10. Washabaugh, “The Flamenco Music and Documentary.” (web) 11. Opt. Manuel, “Andalusian, Gypsy, and Class Identity.” (web) • Listening: Flamenco song C20- August 2: Musics of Spain II: Minor Musics • Questions: What are the regional musics of Spain (Catalan, Basque, Arab-Andalusian, etc.) and how do they fit into the Mediterranean and national imaginary of modern Spain? • Readings: 12. Cohen et al, “Music in the Balearic and Pityusan Islands.” (online at http://www.fondazionelevi.it/ma/index/number9/cohen/coh_0.htm). 13. Martinez, “Seeking Connections through a Sea.” Ch. 2 in Med. Mosaic 14. Shannon, “Andalusian Music, Cultures