Week of 1/26-1/28: Music and Trance revisited, Philosophical views

Week of 1/26-1/28: Music and Trance revisited, Philosophical views
Tuesday, 26 January
Trance

All read:

Becker, Judith. 1994. "Music and Trance." Leonardo Music Journal 4:41-52.

Rouget, Gilbert. 1977. "Music and Possession Trance," In The Anthropology of the Body, editor John Blacking, 233-239. Association of Social Anthropologists Monograph, 15. London: Academic Press.

Book review presentation (Ben):

Rouget, Gilbert. 1985. Music and Trance: A Theory of the Relations Between Music and Possession. Chicago, IL: University of Illinois Press.

Philosophy

Music students read:

Gardner, Howard. 1985. The Mind's New Science: A History of the Cognitive Revolution. 423 pp. New York, NY: Basic Books. Chapter 4 (49-88).
BF311.G283 1985.

Bret + Psychology students read:

Seeger, Charles. 1977. Studies in Musicology, 1935-1975. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. Pp. 1-44.

Thursday, 28 January—Prof. Diana Raffman, guest

All read:

Raffman, Diana. 1988. "Toward a Cognitive Theory of Musical Ineffability." Review of Metaphysics 41:685-706.

___. 1993. Language, Music, and Mind. A Bradford Book, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
All read pp. 1-10.
Optional: 125-145

Feld, Steven. 1994. "Communication, Music, and Speech About Music," in Music Grooves: Essays and Dialogues Charles Keil, and Steven Feld. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.
ML60.K35 1994.

Keil, Charles. 1994. "Motion and Feeling Through Music," in Music Grooves: Essays and Dialogues Charles Keil, and Steven Feld. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.
ML60.K35 1994.

Annotation assignments: include findings, methodology, relationship to cog. ethnomusicology

Annotations	Citations only—export to local disk in Pro-Cite format
1. Becker 1994	a. Psychinfo: cross-cultural studies of motor behavior
2. Seeger 1977 Chap. 2	b. Psychinfo: cross-cultural studies in music
3. Seeger 1977 Chap. 3	c. Psychinfo: cross-cultural studies in perception
4. Raffman 1988	d. Psychinfo: cross-cultural studies in cognition
5. Raffman 1993	e. Music Index: studies in motor behavior
6. Feld 1994	f. Music Index: cross-cultural studies in mus. development
7. Keil 1994	g. Music education: cross-cultural learning, oral traditions