Course Descriptions, Fall Semester 2007-08

F501Folklore Colloquy (3 crs)

Section 16834   1:00P-3:30P   T    
R. Bauman
Meets at 501 N. Park
This course is for majors only.

Course Description: This course introduces students to major points of correspondence and convergence between folklore and ethnomusicology. It is designed to engage students in a dialogue that explores the grounds for integration of these lines of inquiry based upon their conceptual frameworks, research methodologies, theoretical perspectives, modes of professional engagement, and intellectual histories.
Folklore and ethnomusicology are interdisciplinary fields that both borrow from and contribute to a number of disciplines with which they share common concerns and approaches. In addition to works by ethnomusicologists and folklorists, the syllabus includes readings drawn from anthropology, history, linguistics, and musicology. The course is organized around concepts and research methods central to our disciplines, enduring issues that transcend historical shifts of scholarly emphasis.
Among the primary objectives of the course are to understand the dimensions of key theoretical concepts and attendant methods, examine their configuration within particular folklore and ethnomusicological works, and explore their application and utility in our own research.

F501Ethnomusicology Colloquy (3 crs)

Section 16835   1:00P-3:30P   T   
S. Tuohy
Meets at 501 N. Park
This course is for majors only.

Course Description: This course introduces students to major points of correspondence and convergence between folklore and ethnomusicology. It is designed to engage students in a dialogue that explores the grounds for integration of these lines of inquiry based upon their conceptual frameworks, research methodologies, theoretical perspectives, modes of professional engagement, and intellectual histories.
Folklore and ethnomusicology are interdisciplinary fields that both borrow from and contribute to a number of disciplines with which they share common concerns and approaches. In addition to works by ethnomusicologists and folklorists, the syllabus includes readings drawn from anthropology, history, linguistics, and musicology. The course is organized around concepts and research methods central to our disciplines, enduring issues that transcend historical shifts of scholarly emphasis.
Among the primary objectives of the course are to understand the dimensions of key theoretical concepts and attendant methods, examine their configuration within particular folklore and ethnomusicological works, and explore their application and utility in our own research.

F516Folklore Theory in Practice (3 crs)

Section 16836  4:00P-6:30P   M / 7:30P-8:30P    M
H. Glassie
Students must attend both sessions.

An introduction to the materials of scholarly practice.  Neither divisions between method and theory nor conventional generic fascinations should prevent the development of an integrated idea of folklore as a topic of study and as a way to conduct research.  The point of the course is the idea of folklore--philosophically, practically, professionally--and the idea will be illustrated by direct reference to reality.

This course is designed to meet two, interlinked goals: 1. to provide upper level graduate students with additional experience conducting fieldwork; and 2. to focus on the art of writing ethnography.  The course will focus on several components of the writing process associated with fieldwork--fieldnotes, fieldtape indexes, and transcriptions--and analyze the relationship between these components and the construction of a final, publishable ethnography. Additionally, we will analyze different modes of representation, from more conventional ethnographies to experimental approaches, and compare/contrast writing for "stand-alone" written products such as articles and books with writing for multimedia projects.  The course will link the theoretical aspects of ethnographic writing with practical assignments that will allow students to conduct fieldwork and experiment with various approaches to write-up. Fulfills core requirement in ethnomusicology. Prerequisite: F523.

Section 22200   4:00P-6:30P     R        
J. Jackson

Fulfills: Form, Theory

Meets with C701.   Material culture--the stuff of human existence--is again at the center of many key debates and discussions in the humanities and human sciences. Centered on the concerns of folklorists and ethnomusicologists, but open to students across the humanities and social sciences, this course will examine key theoretical perspectives used in the study of material culture. While some attention will be given to literatures and topics grounded in historical and archaeological methods, the course's methodological center of gravity will be ethnographic and ethnological. We will read and critically examine a combination of classic and contemporary studies and will explore an array of theoretical perspectives not only on material culture per se, but also on the ways that social and cultural life are, according to various perspectives, reflected in, mediated by, fashioned through, recast via, or contested around, things and peoples' relations with things. We will begin and conclude by considering the roots and fruits of the distinctive tradition of material culture studies associated with the Indiana University Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology, but we will place our school of material culture studies, which is dominant in American folklore studies at-large, into dialogue with important older perspectives and with other contemporary ones that are increasingly influential in the wider field of material culture studies today.

Section23636   8:45A-11:10A   T    
S. Dolby
Meets at 501 N. Park

Fulfills: Form, Area

Meets with G620.   This course examines some of the genres of folk narrative popular in American culture as well as current theories and analytical perspectives useful in carrying out research on these forms of expression.  We will attend to both historically significant genres, such as the folktale and myth, and genres that are currently thriving, such as the urban legend, the personal narrative, and jokes.  Also we will note that some narrative forms are often closely tied in the literature to specific culture groups--for example, myths and Native American groups, rap-like "toasts" and African American performers, and the Jack tales and Ozark or Appalachian storytellers. Because the topic of American folk narrative is richly inclusive, the course will be to some extent a survey, leaving deeper explorations of each genre or culture group for subsequent coursework or independent research.  Consequently, one major requirement for the course will be a research proposal outlining a project that, when completed, would explore a significant question tied to one of the genres surveyed in the course.  Additional requirements will include oral reports on research articles and written reading responses.

Texts ordered for the course include:
Abrahams, Roger.  Deep Down in the Jungle
Baker, Ronald L.  Hoosier Folk Legends
Basso, Keith.  Portraits of the White Man
Bauman, Richard.  Story, Performance, and Event
Dolby, Sandra K. Literary Folkloristics and the Personal Narrative
Dorson, Richard.  American Folklore
Hufford, David J.  The Terror That Comes in the Night
Hurston, Zora Neale.  Mules and Men
Randolph, Vance.  Pissing in the Snow
Roberts, Leonard W.  South from Hell-fer-Sartin
Stith Thompson, Folk Tales of the North American Indians

Section 28052   9:30A-12:00P   M    
R. Stone
Meets at 501 N. Park

Fulfills: Area, Theory

Pilgrims, from a variety of traditions, make sojourns to sacred sites including Mecca, Jerusalem, and many other places in the Middle East.  This course explores the complex of sonic practices associated with these pilgrimages, ranging from performances at the holy places to music that is imported into the area by the travelers.  These practices draw from Islamic, Jewish, and Christian religious traditions as well as from a variety of secular traditions.  They are communicated in an ever proliferating range of media--film, television, and radio, and computers.  Readings will be drawn such texts as Dale Eickelman and James Piscatori, Muslim Travellers: Pilgrimage, Migration, and the Religious Imagination, as well as from a variety of articles on e-reserves.  Assignments will include a research project, a reading journal, and two short assignments.

Fulfills: Area

Meets with F307. This course introduces the Middle East and the various facets of lore associated with it. It is composed of four (4) segments:
I.      Introduction: The field of folklore as it applies to "The Middle East" --What is meant by "folklore" and its relation to other levels/categories of Middle Eastern cultures. --Peoples and cultures of the Middle East --A brief overview of Middle Eastern Religions
II.     Areas, Fields, and Genres of Middle Eastern Folklore: -- Introducing such concepts as: Oral Literature, Verbal Art, Folk Beliefs, Rituals, and Religion, Mythology, Festivals, Folklife Studies, Material culture, Folk Art, Folk Architecture, etc.
III.    Folklore theories and Mythology -- A brief survey of the literature -- The Generic characteristics of "myth" as compared to other categories of narrative lore.
IV.     In-depth Treatment of Select Forms, Fields, and Genres. Emphasis is placed on Verbal, Social, and Mental/affective aspects of lore: The folk narrative and its genres, the major anthologies (e.g., 1001 Nights, Kaleelah and Dimnah/Panchatantra, etc.); the proverb and the riddle; folk poetry and narrative poetry; folk healing rituals, etc. (You may treat any Middle Eastern group, or emphasize other facets of lore that may not receive sufficient coverage in class presentations).
V.      Your Own Work/Research in a Middle Eastern Field, Country, or Social Group of Your Choosing. (E.g., Pharaonic Egypt, Jewish tales from Yemen, Zoroastrians, rug-weaving, dancing, etc.)
Requirements: Interest in the Middle East, traditional culture and folklore, and willingness to think.

Textbook:
Hasan El-Shamy. A Handbook of Arab Mythology. (ABC-CLIO, 2002)

Other Reference Works:
Hasan El-Shamy. Tales Arab Women Tell, and the Behavioral Patterns they Portray. (Indiana University Press, 1999).
H. El-Shamy. Folktales of Egypt ... with Middle Eastern and African Parallels (U. of Chicago Press, 1980).
T. T`. Sebeok. Myth: a Symposium. (1958).

Handouts: "The outline of culture," "Culture Areas of The Middle East," "TEXTS" etc.
Examinations: 2 exams--(Take home)
Paper: One term paper.

*Work with Arabic texts (classic or dialectical) can be arranged on individual bases for students interested in the language aspect of the data treated.

Section 28053    4:30P-7:30P     W       
A. Burdette

Fulfills: Area

This course will examine a wealth of North American musical communities and styles. These include bluegrass, tex-mex, blues, polka, string band, shapenote, cajun, zydeco, mariachi, klezmer, gospel and steelband music.  In addition, we will explore issues of ethnicity, style, revival, and commercialization. The goals of the course are threefold: to develop a familiarity with the diversity of American regional and ethnic musics, to understand the history of stylistic borrowing and innovation that has created these musics, and to examine the roles these musics play in the lives of the people who make it.  No musical background is necessary.  The course will use the textbook, Musics of Multicultural America and its accompanying CD.  In addition, there will be supplementary readings and listening materials.

F638 Myth, Cosmos and Healing in Latin America   (3 crs)

Section 29221    10:30A-1:00P     F        
McDowell
Meets at 501 N. Park

In this seminar we explore systems of belief and practice implicated in traditional healing rituals in several regions of Latin America. This region of the world features indigenous native doctors of the Andes, African folk religion as conserved and refined in such places as Brazil and Cuba, as well as botánicas , santería , curanderos , and many other practices and practitioners operating at the boundary of medicine and religion. Our quest will be to assess the dynamic interplay linking myth, cosmos, and healing in these systems -- to see how ritual practices are grounded in mythic narratives and the cosmologies they sustain, and how myth and cosmos are activated to confer upon these practices an aura of coherency, legitimacy, and authority. We will attend to the art, artifacts, music, ritual speech, and other techniques of curing and healing, stressing their connection to enabling mythologies and cosmologies. Lastly, we will contemplate the probable fate of these traditional systems in this twilight of modernity, as they seemingly expand their scope of activity and yet are deeply transformed in the process.

F730   Museums & Material Culture (3 crs)

Section 25820    12:45P - 3:15P    T            
P. Shukla

Fulfills: Theory, Form

F738   Cognitive Psychology & Folklore (3 crs)

Section 25819    2:30P - 5:00P    W            
H. El-Shamy

Fulfills: Theory

Text book:
El-Shamy, Hasan. "Folkloric Behavior: a theory for the study of the dynamics of traditional culture" (1967).
Hill, W.F. Learning: A Study of Psychological Interpretations. (Chandler Publishing Co., 1997)
Schultz, Duane. A History of Modern Psychology. (New York, 1987).

Source Work (recommended):
Archetypes and Motifs in Folklore and Literature, Edited by Jane Garry and Hasan El-Shamy (M.E. Sharpe, 2005)
Other selected works in folklore and related disciplines, and any relevant work you may wish to treat as part of this class.

Exams:    Two, take home
Papers: One term paper emphasizing research

Section 22219   4:00P-6:30P     W      
G. Schrempp
Meets at 501 N. Park
Fulfills: Theory, Form

"Classics," whether ancient or modern, are writings that have taken on a status of perenniality--sometimes to the extent that one cannot envision a particular topic apart from its "classic statement."   The works considered in this course have all served as linchpins in cross-cultural imagination and epistemological theorizing.   Our consideration of them will be from three angles: First, we will strive to understand the basic arguments (an endeavor with many surprises since such works are more often cited or alluded to than read).   Second, the recent and contemporary consequences of such works for folkloristics will be explored, including processes of tradition and innovation in derivative theorizing (the instructor's contribution will be especially directed toward this concern).   Thirdly, we will attempt to distinguish factors that contribute to a work's achieving classic status, and the role (positive or negative) of such status in shaping disciplines and research strategies.
This course will be based on careful reading and critical discussion.   A fair amount of oral presentation is expected;   writing will be limited to short analytical essays.
The following is a sampling of topics and readings:
On Logic and Cognition:
- Aristotle:   Categories and Metaphysics Book G (the "law of contradiction")
- Lucien Levy-Bruhl, Notebooks on Primitive Mentality
- Marcel Mauss, The Gift
- Eleanor Rosch, Cognition and Categorization
On Magical Thought:
- David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
- James Frazer, The Golden Bough (excerpts)
- Claude Levi-Strauss, "The Science of the Concrete"
On Language and Cultural Relativism:
- Benjamin Lee Whorf, Language, Thought, and Reality   
- Edward Sapir, "Culture, Genuine and Spurious"
- Ferdinand de Saussure, Course in Linguistics
On Science and The Scientific Revolution:
- Lucretius, On the Nature of the Universe
- Galileo, "Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina"
- C.P. Snow, "The Two Cultures"
- Thomas Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolution

F755 Ritual, Festival & Public Culture (3 crs)

Section 25822   6:00P-8:15P   W    
B. Stoeltje
Fulfills: Theory, Form

Meets with E678/G751.   If we take ritual to be the social act basic to humanity, as Rappaport argues, this formal event and the multiple related ritual genres (festival, carnival, drama, contests, pilgrimage, etc.), provide an arena for the exploration of the social response to contradiction.   Rituals intensify and condense communication, creating an experimental technology, in the words of the Comaroffs, to affect the flow of power in the universe, to plumb the magicalities of modernity.

The course will focus on the larger concept of ritual genres as performed in various locations.   Using anthropological theories of ritual and power, the course will consider the production of ritual, the form itself, its discourse, and the actual performance.   Selected studies will concentrate on the public context of ritual and festival, participation of specific populations, and the outcomes, planned and unplanned. Linking ritual to public culture, the course explores it as a response to contradiction in social and political life.   We will consider the interaction of the ritual genres with politics, tourism, history, identity, gender, the state, religion.   Examples will include rites of passage (traditional ones and newly created ones), historical celebrations enacting an event in history, occupational festivals, rituals of domination and rituals of resistance.

Two papers will be required: one 10 page paper and one 20 page paper.
Readings will be announced.

F755 Ethnography OF/AS Colonialism (3 crs)

Section 25821   12:30P-3:00P   R      
D. Shorter
Meets at 501 N. Park

Fulfills: Theory

F794   Transcription & Analysis of Traditional Music (3 crs)

Section 25824    8:00A - 9:15A    MW / 1:00P - 2:15P    R   (Lab)      
C. Sykes
Meets at 501 N. Park

Meets with F494.  Students must register in lecture and lab sections.

Above sections open to undergraduates only.  Explores past and current theories, methods, techniques, and tools used in notation and analysis of traditional music.  Emphasis is placed on problem solving and project development. The musical traditions studied will sample a broad range of traditions from around the globe and encompass historical and recent time periods.
Prerequisites:  Major/minor in ethnomusicology or permission of the instructor.  Knowledge of musical notation and demonstrated experience in music dictation (T113-114 or equivalent).

Contents of Course:  Transcription and analysis are fundamental processes in ethnomusicological research and scholarship.  Through exploration and application of theories, methods, techniques, tools, and skill development in transcription and analysis, this course provides a foundation upon which students may become successful researchers and scholars in the field of ethnomusicology.  Works of historical significance will be examined in relationship to current theories and questions about music; theoretical principles will be studied as bases for practical application; works of established scholars will serve as groundwork for the research interests of each student in the course.  The musical traditions represented in the literature and recordings studied in this course will sample a broad range of traditions from around the globe, and encompass past and recent time periods.  While work with music in this course is done outside of its cultural context, knowledge of context will consistently inform assumptions made and approaches used to transcribe and analyze music.
The evolution of transcription and analysis in the field of ethnomusicology has been closely aligned with, and in large part driven by the evolution of audio and visual technology. Consequently, the study and use of audio and video technology is a major component of the course.  The course covers the various formats on which sound and visual images are stored, and how technology can be used to extract, notate, analyze, and illustrate aural and visual elements of music performance.  Technology training is done primarily in the lab sections of the course.
Readings:  The course draws from an extensive list of articles and books; some are required reading, while others are optional of reference works.  Required readings range from one to two articles per week.  No reading assignments are given during the last two weeks of class.

Outline of Requirements:
Daily preparation of reading assignments for discussion in class
Short writing assignments
Transcription and analysis assignments
Two major assignments:
Class symposium paper and presentation
Individual research paper
Work in assignments and individual projects in SAVAIL and other technology labs

F801 Teaching Folklore/Ethnomusicology (3 crs)

Section 16838   3:30P-6:00P     T        
S. Dolby
Meets at 501 N. Park

This course will address both practical and theoretical issues arising in the teaching of Folklore and Ethnomusicology with the objective of preparing students for a career that might include teaching as a primary or secondary focus.
It fulfills the teaching course requirement for AIs in Folklore and Ethnomusicology, but all interested students are welcome to enroll.

F804 Field Seminar in Cultural Documentation  (3 crs)

Section 25825   6:00P-8:15P     T       
I. Carpenter/P. Stafford
Meets at 501 N. Park

Meets with F430/E400/E600.  Students in this service-learning course will be introduced to basic tools of cultural documentation utilized by applied folklorists, anthropologists and others. They will explore, document, and seek to understand the cultural expressions of residents of Crestmont on Bloomington's west side, with the goal of helping to define social action projects that improve the quality of life across the lifespan of residents.
The 2007 class extends the on-going work (from 2004) of the instructors with Crestmont residents, especially members of the neighborhood Boys and Girls Club and the Crestmont Residents' Council. Primary texts for the course will include Luke E. Lassiter's Chicago Field Guide to Collaborative Ethnography and The Other Side of Middletown. Through a variety of activities (including a community art project), students will learn about and practice photo/video documentation, interviewing, participant-observation, fieldnotes, transcription, archiving, and analysis.  All students will sign up for weekly volunteer shifts at the Boys and Girls Club in Crestmont or in connection with their focus area. Weekly fieldnotes will be required. The class will culminate in formal presentations to community groups, reflection, and recommendations for subsequent action. The class will require initiative, imagination, careful scheduling, and dedication.

F804 Public Sector:   Advanced Projects (3 crs)

Section 23659   4:00P-6:30P     M      
P. Maultsby
Meets at 501 N. Park

F804  Topics in Folklore/Folk Music: Music, Mass Culture and Globalization (3 crs)

Section 28055 4:00P-6:30P     T      
J. Leon

No description available.

G901 Advanced Research (6 crs)

Authorization is required to register for this course. This course, for which a flat fee is charged, was set up to meet the 6-hour registration requirement for post 90-hour doctoral candidates whom hold assistantships. Post 90-hour students who do not hold assistantships may also enroll in G901 if they desire.
Requirements: Doctoral students who have completed 90 or more hours of graduate course work who have completed all requirements for their degree except the dissertation. Students are not allowed to take more than six (6) semesters.

Course Descriptions, Second Semester 2006-07

F517 History of Folklore Study (3 crs)
Course # 14391    04:00P-06:30P      R        
G. Schrempp

Above class meets at 501 N. Park.
This will be a course in the intellectual history of the study of folklore. The goal will be to contextualize folkloristic concerns within the major theoretical currents that have shaped the social sciences and humanities broadly in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries (including social evolutionism, distributionalism, psychoanalysis, formalism, performance theory, and postmodernism). The readings will be classic works that reflect such currents. We will approach the readings both in terms of the intellectual assumptions belonging to the milieu in which they arose, and with an eye towards determining what aspects of them might be brought forward and made useful to our present-day endeavors.

The reading load will be heavy. Students will make at least one oral presentation on a course reading, and will do two analytical essays (selected from assigned topics) focusing on course readings.

F523 Fieldwork in Folklore (3 crs)
Course # 15108    04:00P-06:30P      W        
R. Bauman
Above class meets at 501 N. Park.

Perspectives and methods for the empirical investigation of folklore are an essential part of the folklorist's scholarly toolkit. In this course, we will examine the epistemology and methodology of ethnographic field research, with special attention to the principal empirical foci of ethnography. What shall I look (or listen) for? Where can I find it? How can I make sense of it? How can I document it? In pursuit of answers to these questions, we will read a range of theoretical and substantive writings that offer some frames of reference, guidelines, and illuminating examples. The readings, and seminar discussions based upon them, will be complemented by a series of empirical projects aimed at trying out the ideas and methods in the real world. The written work for the course will consist of reports based upon the field projects.

Textbooks and readings:
Briggs, Charles L. 1986. Learning How to Ask: A Sociolinguistic Appraisal of the Role of the Interview    in Social Science Research . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
An e-reserve reader.

F523 Fieldwork in Ethnomusicology (3 crs)
Course #    7675    09:30A-12:00P      W        
S. Tuohy
Above class meets at 501 N. Park.

This class introduces students to fieldwork and ethnographic research through reading, conversation, imagination, and practice.   It is designed with an optimistic attitude of integrating the best of ethnographic history, theory, and practice. Our texts include readings on "metatheory", intellectual history and practical guidebooks from a range of disciplines, including ethnomusicology, anthropology and folklore; newer orientations which question the most fundamental aspects of ethnographic research as it has been conceived and practiced; and selections from musical ethnographies.  
The class will consist of lecture and discussion (primarily the latter).   A fieldwork project, written and "practice" assignments provide practical fieldwork and writing experience.   Short written assignments are geared to course readings and to stages/components of an individualized field project.   Final papers will be based on fieldwork; students will do in-class presentations on their results. To facilitate collegial work, several assignments will involve working with other class members to plan research and improve written work (collaborative field projects are permitted but not required).
The course is required for graduate students in the Ethnomusicology track of the Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology but is open to graduate students in other fields who wish to learn more about ethnographic theories and practices; our emphasis will be on "qualitative" research. This section of F523 fulfills one of the "core course requirements" for Ph.D. minors in the Ethnomusicology Program and for Music School cognates.

F525 Readings in Ethnography (3 crs)
Course # 25644    12:00P-02:30P      T         
D. Shorter
Above class meets at 501 N. Park.

F529 Music Culture as Systems of Meaning (3 crs)
Course # 25645    01:00P-03:30P      T         
M. Burnim
Fulfills: Form

This course is designed to introduce students of ethnomusicology and related fields of study to a range of ideologies, processes, and patterns that define distinct musical cultures across the globe.
Students will develop an understanding of the concept of music as culture by exploring historical and contemporary issues in cross-cultural perspective. Using audio and video examples as a lens for critically engaging texts, students will gain familiarity and understanding of musical genres and instruments and their associated aesthetic and political values.   Musical systems covered in the course reflect the expertise of the ethnomusicology institute faculty.

F540 Turkish Art & Architecture (3 crs)
Course # 25646    04:00P-06:30P      T         
H. Glassie
Above course meets with Folk-F440

Fulfills: Area & Theory
Turkish Art and Architecture at once introduces Turkish culture through art and exemplifies the methods of material culture analysis. In lectures accompanied by slides, the landscape and buildings, the weaving and pottery of Turkey will provide an understanding of Islamic art, of the convergence of creativity and spirituality, while describing historical and contemporary varieties of creative action. The emphasis will be on the artists themselves, the women and men of Turkey; the topic of material culture method will be regularly addressed. For folklorists, the course will fill both area and theory requirements. For art historians, the course can amount to an entry to Islam. For anthropologists, the course can be taken as an introduction to Turkey. For students of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, the course will relate Middle Eastern culture, religion, and art. All graduate students and advanced undergraduates are welcome. There will be a single paper, not necessarily related to Turkey, but focusing upon the deep topic of the course, the relation of art to religion and human needs.

F540 Body Art (3 crs)
Course # 25647    01:00P-03:30P      T         
P. Shukla
Fulfills: Form & Theory

This course will look at the different ways in which human beings throughout the world shape, dress, ornament, and decorate their bodies, focusing on the meaningful communication of these artistic forms. Class topics will include tattoo, scarification, plastic surgery, face painting, makeup, henna, hair, jewelry, and body building. We will also look at various aspects of dress - from daily wear to special occasion, analyzing the costume on stage, folk dress, uniforms, and even cross-dressing.

F600 Chinese Film Music (3 crs)
Course # 25648    01:00P-02:15P      MW         
                                 07:00P-09:00P      M
S. Tuohy
Students must attend the Monday night session.
Above class meets at 501 N. Park.
Above class meets with Folk-F305 and is cross-listed in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures (EALC).
Fulfills: Area & Theory

The course introduces students to Chinese film, music, and the film industry.   We will view and analyze a range of "Chinese" films produced in and about China, from the early 1900s to today. In particular, we will look at features films that focus on Chinese music, musicians, and actors (including films about famous female performers and heroines, opera stars, and martial arts masters). We also will consider other genres such as documentaries, MTV, and videos circulated through the internet.
Among the primary course objectives are: 1) to learn methods for "reading" film music; and 2) to learn to read Chinese films and listen to their soundtracks in relation to their representations of Chinese culture.   We will explore theories, particularly those from the field of ethnomusicology, and will experiment with methods for the analysis of film music.   The films will be contextualized within the social-historical conditions of their production as well the conditions which they portray.
Every other week (approximately), we will meet on Monday evening to view together selected films. This course will meet with an undergraduate section, F305. Graduate students will be assigned additional readings, including readings in film music theory, and will complete a more extensive final project. On selected weeks, graduate students will meet during the Monday evening session for additional seminars. The course also fulfills a "theory" (F700) requirement; it is cross-listed in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures.

F609 Fieldnotes in African Research (3 crs)
Course # 25649    05:30P-07:30P      W          
R. Stone/M. Frank-Wilson
Above class meets with AFRI-A731.
Fulfills: Area

Ethnographic researchers employ fieldnotes to record ideas, analyses, and texts in the course of field research in Africa.  These fieldnotes display rich variety in form, function, voice, and style, depending of particular disciplines as well as historical settings.
Guest lecturers will share with the class their own work with fieldnotes in a public lecture on Wednesday evening.
Students will read general articles on fieldnotes as well as specific works of the invited speakers.  They will write a full-length paper analyzing fieldnotes they have researched in one of the archives at Indiana University, focusing one or more of the focal issues.

F617 Middle Eastern Ballads & Narrative Poetry (3 crs)
Course # 12643   02:30P-03:45P      TR       
H. El-Shamy
Above class meets with Folk-F307.
Fulfills: Area & Form

This course deals with narrative folk poetry in Middle Eastern Arab communities. The genres of this category of expressive folk culture are compared to corresponding Euro-American counterparts (e.g., the English and Scottish ballad).
I. Introduction: The Folk Narrative and its Forms: Key Concepts Associated with Genres and Tale Typology; Factors Involved in Typological and Genre Studies (e.g., form, contents, narrator's intent, media of dissemination, etc. - elaborated in point V, below).
The poet, balladeer, bard, etc. as culture broker and agent of change.
II. Narrative Folk Poetry: Epic, "Epic Romance" (s îrah), Ballad. The form, structure, and contents.
III. Thematic Characteristics of the Ballad: Non-Religious and Religious; The Family: the Traditional Structure of Sentiments; Romantic Lovers; Nationalistic Themes in the Modern State; Societal Events - Representation of Community Ideals (the Conduct of the Native-Urbanite: "Real-Man," and Other Aspects of the Good Man); Humorous Ballads.
IV. Religious Ballads (and Epics?): Prophets, Other Prophets and the Virgin, the Prophet's Companions, Arch-saints and Saints, Christian "Martyrs" and Saints.
V. Structural and Stylistic Characteristics: Leaping and Lingering, Beginning " in media res , Repetition (e.g. Climax of Relatives, Speech and Action), etc.
VI. Theories of Ballad Origins: Minstrel Theory, Broken-down Epic, Broken-down Romance, Communal Origin, Communal Re-creation, Formulaic Improvisation.
VII. Conclusions: Two take-home exams and one term paper.

F635 Tradition & Innovation in European Folk Music Scholarship (3 crs)
Course # 25650   05:30P-08:00P      M        
L. Hooker
Above class meets with CEUS-U520.
Fulfills: Area

Ethnomusicology has its roots in the study of folk music, or more specifically "folksong" - a term coined by Johann Gottfried Herder in the late 18 th century. In the centuries since Herder's efforts to map Europe through music, scholars and musicians have grappled with how to study this repertoire and in fact how to define what it is, even as it has been invested with ideological importance as the "voice of the people" and treated as raw material by composers and songwriters.
In this course we will explore the history of scholarship on the traditional musics of rural Europe, particularly from Hungary, Finland, Russia, Germany, the Balkans, and the British Isles, and how that music has been used in the development of national culture, both high and low. We will also examine musics of two important transnational communities, Jews and Roma (Gypsies) and the challenges their cases bring to the idea of the culture nation. Finally, we will look at how folk music has been transformed and revived in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, particularly by examining the impact of revival and commercialization.

F638 South American Performance & Culture (3 crs)
Course # 27981   07:00P-09:30P      T           
J. León
Above class meets with Folk-F315.
Fulfills: Form & Area

This performance based course introduces students to a variety of musical traditions associated with indigenous, mestizo, criollo and African diasporic communities of Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador, Colombia, Chile and Argentina.   Students will be introduced to a number of songs from the region and in the process learn the important role that performance has in building community and transmitting specific forms of cultural knowledge.   Emphasis will be given to the development of aural skills, learning the repertoire by ear, and the use local performance practice techniques.   Through a series of in-class discussions, assigned readings, and an individual research project, students will also learn about the connections that exist between the music that they are learning to perform and Andean cosmology, regional migration, rural and urban social protest movements, criollo and mestizo working class identity, and the historical role that descendants of Africans have had in the development of local forms of expressive culture.
While students do not need to have taken any formal musical training (music theory, musicianship, ability to read Western notation, etc.) to take this class, a basic level of musical proficiency is required.   All students in the class will be expected to sing, play pan pipes and/or some basic percussion.   Individuals with experience on flute, guitar, banjo, mandolin, violin, bass, piano, brass/reed instruments, and/or hand percussion will learn local performance practice techniques for their instruments as well as some basic techniques for playing instruments from the region such as the quena, charango, tiple, harp and cajón.

F638 Music & Nationalism in Latin America (3 crs)
Course # xxxxx   04:00P-06:30P      T            
J. León
Fulfills: Area & Theory

F640 Native American Folklore/Folk Music (3 crs)
Course # 25651   01:00P-03:30P      R        
J. Jackson
Above class meets with AMST-G620.
Above class qualifies as American Indian Studies course.
Fulfills: Area & Theory

This graduate seminar will introduce and survey the diversity of expressive cultural forms practiced in Native North American societies. Cultural materials considered will include visual art and material culture, architecture, verbal art (including oratory, storytelling, and sacred narrative), cosmology, dance, musical performance, public celebrations, foodways, games, and other topics customarily approached under the rubrics "folklore," "folk music," and "folklife." In undertaking this survey, the seminar will also confront the work of key thinkers whose Americanist scholarship has influenced scholarly work in folklore, anthropology, and ethnomusicology beyond the field of Native American studies. Thus, study of Native North American materials will enable us to engage with general theoretical and methodological issues in areas such as ethnomusicology, cultural history, mythology, ethnopoetics, performance theory, and art history.

F694 Black Music in America (3 crs)
Course # 27990   04:00P-06:30P      M          
P. Maultsby
Above class meets at 501 N. Park.
Above class meets with AAAD-A594 and AMST-G751.
Fulfills: Area

This course, organized topically, will present a chronological overview of the primary genres of African American music, from slavery to the present. Emphasis will be placed on understanding the separate identities of the individual genres, while at the same time examining those processes by which they are interrelated and are cultural objects for appropriation. Topics explored will include genre classification, musical features and the aesthetics of style; oral vs. written traditions; early collectors of African American music; musical transformation and representation, and inter- and intra-cultural interactions. Central themes to be addressed are issues of race, class, identity, authenticity, gender, and multiple levels of meaning.

F734 Storytelling, Cultural Framing, & Reading Folklore (3 crs)
Course # 25653   09:05A-11:35A      R         
S. Dolby
Above class meets at 501 N. Park.
Fulfills: Theory & Form

From the time of the Grimms up to the present, oral stories have been viewed as potential written texts and thus as stories to be "read" using the cultural frame shared by collector/transcribers and their readers.   The process of reading such texts has become increasingly complicated, involving expanded notions of cultural frames and greater sensitivity to the effects of intended or actual audience.   In this course, we shall examine some classic collections of tales, some media-based adaptations, and some ethnographic studies of oral narrative with an aim toward understanding the process of reading that engages those (including ourselves) who experience the presentation of these stories.   In the process of unpacking these texts, we shall consider especially the manipulations of story and cultural frame that serve the aims of cultural monitors, such as elementary school teachers or festival producers.   The course includes theoretical and methodological perspectives from the combined field of folklore and literature as well as related concerns of cultural politics and education.  
Requirements of the course include two or three oral reports on secondary research, active participation in class discussion, and a research paper on an approved topic.

F740 Intertextuality (3 crs)
Course # 25664   04:00P-06:30P      R        
R. Bauman
Above class meets with CMCL-C706.
Fulfills: Theory

The relationship of texts to other texts has long been a key analytical concern in folklore, ethnomusicology, performance studies, and media studies. This mode of inquiry has been re-energized in recent years under the conceptual rubric of intertextuality , a term coined by Julia Kristeva based on the foundational work of the Bakhtin Circle. In this course, we will chart the foundations of the concept of intertextuality in the work of Bakhtin, Voloshinov, Kristeva, and Genette, and then go on to explore a range of intertextually oriented perspectives on allied concepts, including genre, performance, parody, remediation, and metaculture. The principal written work for the course will consist of brief critical and synthetic assessments of the relevant literature and an extended research paper that brings to bear the key concepts treated in the course on a body of substantive materials.

Textbooks
Bakhtin, M. M. 1986. Speech Genres and Other Late Essays . Transl. Vern W. McGee; ed. Caryl Emerson and Michael Holquist. Austin: University of Texas Press.
Bauman, Richard. 2004. A World of Others' Words: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Intertextuality . Malden, MA: Blackwell.
Morris, Pam and Graham Roberts, eds. 1998. The Bakhtin Reader: Selected Writings of Bakhtin, Medvedev, Voloshinov . London: Hodder Arnold.
Additional readings on e-reserve.

F740 History of Ideas in Ethnomusicology (3 crs)
Course # 25665   09:30A-12:00P      T        
D. Reed
Above class meets at 501 N. Park.
Fulfills: Theory

What have ethnomusicologists studied, how have they studied it, and why?   This course examines over a century of the intellectual history of the field, including social, political and ideological forces influencing its development.   Students will become familiar with ethnomusicology's scope and aims, key issues and points of debate, practitioners, and resources throughout the field's history, and gain a sense of the diversity in ethnomusicological research. An assumption of the course is that we, as contemporary ethnomusicologists, can better shape our discipline through an understanding of central issues of its debates, past and present.   Individual research projects may address broad concerns in disciplinary history or focus on particular histories in terms of time, place, or scholar.   Requirements: class preparation and participation, short written assignments, and a final research paper.

F740 History of Ideas in Folklore: Typology & Folklore (3 crs)
Course # 25666   02:30P-05:00P      W        
H. El-Shamy
Fulfills: Theory

This seminar examines the various research techniques and considerations folklorists have employed in determining the nature of their discipline.
The impact of folklore theories developed over the past century will provide strong guidelines for assessing the academic "worldviews" and their impact on the determination of the parameters of the field of folklore and its subsystems. Concepts of culture specialty studies based on demographic criteria (e.g., women's folklore, children's folklore, etc.) will be treated.
The course will also explore the relations of folkloristics to allied disciplines such as anthropology, literature, psychology, and education.
One term paper and two or three reports.

F755 Performing Nationalism (3 crs)
Course # xxxxx   06:00P-08:15P      W        
B. Stoeltje
Above class meets with AMST-G751 and ANTH-E677.
Fulfills: Theory

Around the globe social and cultural groups express resistance to domination through the performance of symbolic forms such as ritual, religion, song, narrative, the novel, language, food, film/tv, etc.   Equally common, the nation state utilizes the same resources from its indigenous cultures or created out of symbolic resources to produce unity, loyalty and patriotism. These symbolic and artistic forms constitute a powerful force in the phenomenon we label "nationalism."
This course deals with the process that accomplishes these purposes, whether domination or resistance.   While related to the distribution and flow of power at any time, these processes are especially crucial in periods of transition, war, or political upheaval.

After several sessions devoted to discussion of theories of nationalism we will focus on ethnographic studies in different parts of the world, emphasizing the processes by which nationalism operates, the forms through which it communicates,(such as popular culture, religion, war, spectacle), the changes forms undergo in order to express the desired goals, and processes of resistance.     Not only will we consider nationalism of the dominant cultural group, associated with or supported by the state, but we will view cultural nationalism performed by minority groups. The course will conclude with a consideration of the relationship between the national and transnational or global forces.
Students may choose a symbolic form from the present or the past as their subject and will write two related papers (one short and one long) on a specific ethnographic site and specific symbolic form that expresses nationalism, national identity, transnationalism or specific elements of this process. (Examples: religious movements that oppose a dominant force, a Latin American indigenous dance that represents the nation; Mexican-American Charreada; a precolonial African state based on law). Students will also be expected to write a written response for each class session. A few guest speakers who are working on this topic will be included as well.
The latter portion of the class will be devoted to student presentations.
Readings will include theoretical studies of nationalism and modernity (Imagined Communities, and National Identities for example) as well as some historical readings that contextualize this process in relation to larger sociopolitical contexts.

F840 Research Seminar (3 crs)
Course # 25668   10:00A-12:30P      F        
J. McDowell
Above class meets at 501 N. Park.

This seminar has two objectives: to orient the student to the doctoral qualifying process, and to initiate the doctoral research process. Ideally, each student will finish the semester having passed the Ph.D. exam and having prepared a viable draft of the doctoral research proposal. In addition, students will prepare a bibliographic essay on the topic they intend to pursue in their dissertations.

F850 Thesis/Research/Dissertation (1-12 crs)
Course #   7678    AUTH      ARR      ARR                    
P. Maultsby

Obtain on-line authorization for above class from department Graduate Recorder.
Thesis/Project credit for M.A. students writing thesis or completing a master's project (a maximum of 6 cr. hours) and Ph.D. candidates (a maximum of 30 cr. hours).

F850 Thesis/Research/Dissertation (1-12 crs)
Course # 26591    AUTH      ARR      ARR                   
P. Maultsby
Above section is for students who are not on the Bloomington Campus.

Obtain on-line authorization for above class from department Graduate Recroder.
Thesis/Project credit for M.A. students writing thesis or completing a master's project (a maximum of 6 cr. hours) and Ph.D. candidates (a maximum of 30 cr. hours).