WORLD MUSIC

(F-08)

 

READINGS

 

Becker, Judith. “Time and Tune in Java,” in The Imagination of Reality – Southeast Asian Coherence Systems (1979), 196-210.

 

Blacking, John. How Musical is Man?,” (1973), 1-16.

 

Marcus, Scott K.  Music in Egypt (2006)

            Preface, Ch.1, Ch.2

            Ch.4, Ch.7

 

Racy, Ali Jihad.  “Improvisation, Ecstasy, and Performance Dynamics in Arabic Music,” In the Course of Performance: Studies in the World of Musical Improvisation (ed. B. Nettl and M. Russell, 1998), 95-112.

 

Racy, Ali Jihad.  “Arab Music, an Overview,” In Terry E. Miller and Andrew Shahriari. World Music, A Global Journey(2006), 9-13.

 

Wade, Bonnie. Thinking About Music. (2007). Chapter 1, "Thinking musically ": Chapter 2, "Thinking about instruments"; Chapter 7, "Thinking about fieldwork."