Professional Project (Ethnomusicology)

This subject has the following teaching availabilities in 2016:

120 Hours

or equivalent or permission of the coordinator.

Note: The prerequisite subject may be taken concurrently.

The Ethnography of Music (Honours) and Dissertation or permission of the coordinator.

For the purposes of considering request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Cwth 2005), and Student Support and Engagement Policy, academic requirements for this subject are articulated in the Subject Overview, Learning Outcomes, Assessment and Generic Skills sections of this entry.

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This subject introduces students to the methodologies and current issues in applied ethnography of music through the construction, implementation and presentation both orally and in writing of a small scale field research or other investigative project as directed and appropriate to their area of research.

On completion of this subject students should be able to demonstrate

• An understanding of how to design and carry out an ethnographic research project in music
• Personal views regarding the complexity of issues and diversity of methods encountered in musical ethnography, informed by how these issues have been addressed both in the past and currentlyby others in the disciplines of ethnomusicology and anthropological ethnography; and a willingness to express and debate these views
• Confidence in using modern recording technology and global communications technologies as part of a research project
• Mastery of the vocabulary and writing styles used in the discipline, and understanding of both its written/visual and aural forms
• An ability to present the result of the project effectively in a public forum.

A folio presentation of field notes, recordings, critical review of relevant sources, and reflective commentary, as appropriate to the project (5000 words) due during the examination period (100%).

This subject is not available as a breadth subject.

On completion of this subject students should be able to demonstrate:

• An emerging confidence and competence with the personal, intellectual and technological skills required for field work
• Ability to present the results of research in a scholarly forum
• An ability to assess critically the theories and methodologies employed in research in the diverse fields and musical genres of ethnomusicological enquiry