Explorations in World Musics Final Year - AHM3315

Assessment 1: Other

Ongoing contributions to class discussion, during which students will be offered verbal feedback.

Other

Assessment 2: Project work

Outline research project proposals, submitted for tutor feedback and approval.

Project Work

Assessment 1: Portfolio

Portfolio of written exercises. Short research-based, analytical, and reflective tasks relating to the historical, critical, and analytical approaches covered in the module and structured as preparation and/or consolidation work for teaching sessions.

Portfolio

Assessment 2: Project Work

Creative response (for example, illustrated seminar, performance, composition, sound recording) in response to a stimulus or research question agreed by the module tutor, plus a commentary of 800 words.

Project work

Explorations in World Musics Year 2

AIM2315 - Explorations in World Musics Year 2

<p>This course will introduce you to styles of music popular around the world in the past and in the present.  It will also introduce analytical tools that will help you conceptualise these styles of music and place them within their cultural and political contexts.  It will draw on a wide range of disciplines, including ethno-musicology, musicology, anthropology, popular music studies, post-colonial studies and history. Assessment options include: undertaking ethnographic research on a local musical community; or collaborating musically with a musical community; or producing a sound recording of them.</p>

School of Arts and Humanities

<p><a href="http://library.hud.ac.uk/my/AIM3315">http://library.hud.ac.uk/my/AIM3315</a></p>

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AHM3315 - Explorations in World Musics Final Year

Explorations in World Musics Final Year

be able to demonstrate a critical understanding of the issues surrounding the research methodologies of ethno-musicology and inter-cultural collaborative practice.

be able to initiate, develop and realise a self-guided research project and critically analyse your own research.

be able to demonstrate a nuanced and critical approach to a range of world music styles.

be able to either develop strategies for engaging ethno-musicological research or sensitive cross-cultural musical collaborations or successful recording of non-western instruments.

be able to show thorough awareness of the key political, cultural and historical issues surrounding world music.

be able to form a well-informed, critical position in relation to world music styles and the ethno-musicological, popular music and musicological issues that surround them.

be able to construct an articulate, reasoned, well-structured and convincing argument, in spoken and written form, using accurate spelling, grammar, syntax and punctuation, drawing on a range of source materials, and supported by appropriate evidence.