NB: COURSE SCHEDULE AND READING/LISTENING ASSIGNMENTS SUBJECT TO CHANGE AND ADDITIONS. They will be update periodically. Readings available on Reserve in the Music Library. Listening is on Reserve in the Music Library and/or streamed on course website, listed by week.

Week 1 January 6 The Black Atlantic & Diaspora Theory

Read: Gilroy, Paul. 1993. The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, pp. 96-110.

Stone, Ruth. “African Music in a Constellation of Arts” The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music. Vol 1. Africa. edited by Ruth Stone. New York: Garland Pub., 1998, pp 7-12

Week 2 January 13 Ghana: The “Invention” of Africa [and African Rhythm]

Read: Agawu, V. Kofi. 1995. African Rhythm: A Northern Ewe Perspective. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Chapter 3-4.

Agawu, Kofi. 2003. Chapter 3: The Invention of “African Rhythm.” Representing African Music: Postcolonial Notes, Queries, Positions. New York: Routledge.

Chernoff, John Miller. Chapter 3: Music in Africa. African Rhythm and African Sensibility: Aesthetics and Social Action in African Musical Idioms. pp. 39-90.

Week 3 January 20 Delta & Texas Blues

Read: Selections from: Lomax, Alan. 1993. The Land Where Blues Began. Pantheon.

Wilson, Olly. "The Significance of the Relationship between Afro-American Music and West African" Black Perspective in Music 2 (1974): 3-22.

Wilson, Olly. "The Heterogeneous Sound Ideal in African American Music," New perspectives on music : essays in honor of Eileen Southern. Eds Josephine Wright with Samuel A. Floyd, Jr. Detroit Monographs in Musicology/Studies in Music. Detroit: Harmonie Park Press, 1992.

Week 4 January 27 Tanzania

AURAL ANALYSIS DUE

Read: Askew, Kelly M. 2002. Chapter 6: Competing Agendas: The Production of Tanzanian National Culture. Performing the Nation : Swahili Music and Cultural Politics in Tanzania (Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology). Chicago: U of Chicago P. pp. 196-223.

Week 5 February 3 Brazil

PRECIS DUE

Read: McGowan, Chris. The Brazilian Sound : Samba, Bossa Nova, and the Popular Music of Brazil.. New ed. ed. Philadelphia: Temple University Press , 1998. 119-49

Carvalho, Jose Jorge de. 1994. “Black Music of All Colors: The Construction of Black Ethnicity in Ritual and Popular Genres of Afro-Brazilian Music,” Music and Black Ethnicity: The Caribbean and South America. Béhague, Gerard H., ed Coral Gables: University of Miami North-South Center/ New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers. pp.187-206.

Week 6 February 10 Mande Music

Read: Charry, Eric. 2000. Chapter 3: Jeliya. Mande Music: Traditional and Modern Music of the Maninka and Mandinka of Western Africa. Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology. Chicago: U of Chicago Press. p.90-192.

Week 7 February 17 NO CLASSES, READING WEEK

Week 8 February 24 Zimbabwe: Mbira Music & Mbira Pop

TRANSCRIPTION & ANALYSIS DUE

Read: Berliner, Paul. 1978. Chapter 4: The Nature of Mbira Music. The Soul of Mbira: Music and Traditions of the Shona People of Zimbabwe. Chicago: U of Chicago P. pp. 52-111.

Week 9 March 3 Toronto’s Caribana

Read: Averill, Gage. 1994. “Se Kreyol Nou Ye”/”We’re Creole”: Musical Discourse on Haitian Identities. Music and Black Ethnicity: The Caribbean and South America. Béhague, Gerard H., ed. Coral Gables: University of Miami North-South Center/ New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers. pp. 157-186.

Austerlitz, Paul. 1997. Chapter 5, Merengue: Dominican Music and Dominican Identity. Philadelphia: Temple University Press. p. 83-104

Week 10 March 10 Haiti

ARTICLE REVIEW DUE

Read: Averill, Gage. 1997. Chapter 4, A Day for the Hunter, A Day for the Prey: Popular Music and Power in Haiti. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 108-159.

Week 11 March 17 Jamaica

Read: Selections from: Chang, Kevin O'Brien. Reggae routes: the story of Jamaican music. Temple University Press, 1998.

Week 12 March 24 South Africa: Isacathimiya & South African Pop

Read: Coplan, David. 1994. Chapter Nine: Laughter is Greater than Death: Migrants’ Songs and the Meaning of Sesotho. In the Time of Cannibals: The World Music of South African Basotho Migrants. Chicago: U of Chicago P. pp. 242-261.

Coplan, David. Popular Music in South Africa. The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music. Vol 1. Africa. edited by Ruth Stone. New York: Garland Pub., 1998.

Selections from: Erlmann, Veit. 1995. Nightsong: Performance, Power, and Practice in South Africa. Chicago: U of Chicago P.

Week 13 March 31 Nigeria: Juju

TERM PAPER DUE

Read: Apter, Andrew. Black Critics and Kings: The Hermeneutics of Power in Yoruba Society. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992, pp. 97-116.

Selections from: Waterman, Christopher. 1990. Juju: A Social History and Ethnography of African Popular Music. Chicago: U of Chicago P.

Week 14 April 7 Afropop Stars

Read: Dibango, Manu and Danielle Roulard. 1994. “Soul Makossa,” Agouti and Goutou: Of Field Rats and Fufu” Three Kilos of Coffee. Chicago: U of Chicago P., 85-104.

Kaye, Andrew. The Guitar in Africa. The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music. Vol 1. Africa. edited by Ruth Stone. New York : Garland Pub., 1998.