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Undergraduate Module Descriptor
ANT3031: Ethnomusicology
This module descriptor refers to the 2018/9 academic year.
Module Aims
This module has three key aims: (1) to consider music's role and impact in social life; (2) to consider some of the classic and current approaches within ethnomusicology and music sociology; and (3) to exemplify these approaches with reference to empirical studies with special reference to music in daily life.
| On successfully completing the programme you will be able to: | |
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| Module-Specific Skills | 1. examine and analyse musical phenomena in light of ethnomusicological and sociological theories and to apply key concepts to musical data; 2. demonstrate ability to identify connections between musical works and social structures; |
| Discipline-Specific Skills | 3. relate a defined corpus of sociological ideas and data to a consideration of both production and the reception of art in the modern world; 4. deploy sociological argument, developed through written assignments and classroom presentations in a critical relationship to received ways of talking about art works, and artists; 5. demonstrate competence in the use of a specialist terminology developed through a familiarity with the principal sociological debates concerning art as a social phenomenon; |
| Personal and Key Skills | 6. demonstrate independent study and group work, including the presentation of material for group discussion, developed through the mode of learning; 7. demonstrate skills in sociological reasoning and the marshalling of evidence, use of data etc. developed through written assignments; 8. digest, select and organise material to produce, to a deadline, a coherent and cogent argument, developed through the mode of assessment. |