[FA Worldmusic] Fw: CMS Announces Institute on the Pedagogies of World Music Theories

[Josh Kohn]

> She was
> rather sheepish about her field of work, though loved the show, and  
> told me
> that her crowd all hate what we know as world music as basically  
> you're not
> supposed to dance and have fun because this shows you are entirely  
> missing
> the point of the 'tradition' in front of you.

I have never, in all my 26 years, met an Ethnomusicologist, or anyone  
in related fields, who thought that way about music.  Maybe the music  
was too loud in the room or all of the non-ethnomusicologists were  
dancing so hard that they were knocking you out of ear shot as she  
stood firm,po-faced as you say, absorbing the point of the tradition  
as it is meant to be absorbed.....



Joshua Kohn
Programming Manager
301-565-0654 x. 15
www.ncta.net






On Apr 13, 2007, at 2:56 PM, Sasa Music wrote:

> Hi
>
> Thanks for drawing my attention to this. I'll be signing up, and  
> first in
> line for the seminar on "the concept of periodicity as a theoretical
> construct".
>
> I recently met an American ethnomusicologist at a Tinariwen show in
> Scotland, who was on her way to 6 months fieldwork in Bangladesh.  
> She was
> rather sheepish about her field of work, though loved the show, and  
> told me
> that her crowd all hate what we know as world music as basically  
> you're not
> supposed to dance and have fun because this shows you are entirely  
> missing
> the point of the 'tradition' in front of you. What a po-faced bunch  
> they
> seem, with the most pretentious jargon I've come across in a long- 
> time.
> Academics breed academics breed academics breed academics breed  
> academics
>
> I've tried to read some of that stuff but it's impossible. In the  
> end it's
> hidebound by its own methodology and style (obligatory 15 footnotes  
> a page).
> The nearest I got is Robert Farris Thompson who I doubt would have  
> much
> truck with them even if he does teach at Harvard. And Ned Sublette  
> on Cuba,
> now there's a great book. But they make it pretty entertaining if  
> you can
> take on board all the info. Can anyone recommend any other serious  
> books on
> music like theirs?
>
> David Flower
>
>
>> Hmmm...
>>
>>>
>>>> From: The College Music Society <cms at music.org>
>>>> To: <horn_in_b at yahoo.com>
>>>> Subject: CMS Announces Institute on the Pedagogies
>>>> of World Music Theories
>>>> Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 11:27:37 -0600
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> The College Music Society
>>>> Institute on the Pedagogies of World Music Theories
>>>> May 29 - June 2 2007
>>>> University of Colorado - Boulder
>>>> Boulder, Colorado
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> ****************************************
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> The University of Colorado at Boulder will host for
>>>> the second time the
>>>> "Institute on the Pedagogies of World Music
>>>> Theories" May 29-June 2,
>>>> 2007. This cutting-edge institute introduces
>>>> theoretical musical
>>>> constructs that operate in different world cultures,
>>>> responding to a
>>>> growing interest among instructors of
>>>> university-level music theory
>>>> courses in drawing upon concepts and pedagogies from
>>>> a variety of world
>>>> traditions. The value of teaching music theory from
>>>> a global perspective
>>>> becomes increasingly self-evident in an era during
>>>> which composers and
>>>> performers from West and South Africa, South and
>>>> East Asia, and the Near
>>>> East are creating works that engage new listeners
>>>> and suggest new
>>>> compositional possibilities. For further information
>>>> regarding this
>>>> institute, including faculty, course content,
>>>> lodging, and registration,
>>>> please visit www.music.org/PWMT.html
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> ******************************************
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> The College Music Society
>>>> 312 East Pine Street
>>>> Missoula, Montana 59802
>>>> cms at music.org
>>>> www.music.org
>>>>
>>>> .
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