April 3                   Perspectives on Studying Music & Culture

READINGS:

•  Patel, Aniruddh D, and Steven M Demorest. 2013. “Comparative Music Cognition: Cross-Species and Cross-Cultural Studies.” In The Psychology of Music, edited by Diana Deutsch, 3:647–681. London; Waltham, MA: Academic Press.

•Netti, Bruno. 2000. “An Ethnomusicologist Contemplates Universals in Musical Sound and Musical Culture.” In The Origins of Music, edited by Nils L Wallin, Björn Merker, and Steven Brown, MIT Press, 463–472. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

•Becker, Judith. 2009. “Crossing Boundaries : An Introductory Essay.” Empirical Musicology Review 4 (2): 45–48.

April 10                Conflicting Views on Culture and Cognition

READINGS:

•Geertz, Clifford. 1973. “The Impact of the Concept of Culture on the Concept of Man.” In The Interpretation of Cultures, 33–54. New York: Basic Books.

•Bloch, Maurice. 2005. “Where Did Anthropology Go? Or the Need for ’Human Nature'.” In Essays on Cultural Transmission,, 1–20. Oxford: Berg Publishers.

•Markus, Hazel Rose, Susan Cross, Alan Fiske, Carol Gilligan, Tom Givon, Chie Kanagawa, John Kihlstrom, and Joan Miller. 1991. “Culture and the Self : Implications for Cognition , Emotion , and Motivation.” Psychological Review 98 (2): 224–253.

April 17                Perspectives on Development and Learning

READINGS:

•Berliner, Paul. 1994. “Love at First Sound.” In Thinking in Jazz: The Infinite Art of Improvisation, 21–35. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

•Hannon, Erin E, and Laurel J Trainor. 2007. “Music Acquisition: Effects of Enculturation and Formal Training on Development.” Trends in Cognitive Sciences 11 (11) (November): 466–72.

•Hannon, Erin E, and Sandra E Trehub. 2005. “Metrical Categories in Infancy and Adulthood.” Psychological Science 16 (1) (January): 48–55.

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April 24                    Bimusicality

READINGS:

•Cottrell, Stephen. 2007. “Local Bimusicality among London ’ S Freelance Musicians.” Ethnomusicology 51 (1): 85–105.

•Wong, Patrick C M., Anil Roy & Lisa Margulis.  2009. “Bimusicalism: The Implicit Dual Enculturation of Cognitive and Affective Systems.” Music Perception 27 (2): 81–88.

May 1                    The Music of Java: Psychological and Anthropological Approaches

READINGS:

•Sunardi, Christina. 2011. “Negotiating Authority and Articulating Gender: Performer Interaction in Malang, East Java.” Ethnomusicology 55 (1): 32–54.

•Lynch, Michael P, Rebecca E Eilers, D Kimbrough Oiler, and Richard C Urbano. 1990. “Innateness, Experience, and Music Perception.” Psychological Science 1 (4): 272–276.

DUE: First Reflection Paper

May 8                    Music and Emotion

READINGS

•   Baraldi, F. B. (2006). All The Pain And Joy Of The World In A Single Melody: A Transylvanian Case Study On Musical Emotion, Music Perception, 26 (3), 257–261.

•Thompson, William Forde, and Laura-lee Balkwill. 2010. “Cross-Cultural Similarities and Differences.” In Handbook of Music and Emotion, edited by Patrik N Juslin and John A Sloboda, 755–788. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

May 15                Guest Ian Cross, Cambridge University

READINGS:

•Cross, Ian. 2012. “Cognitive Science and the Cultural Nature of Music.” Topics in Cognitive Science 4 (4) (October): 668–77.

•Stobart, Henry, and Ian Cross. 2000. “The Andean Anacrusis? Rhythmic Structure and Perception in Easter Songs of Northern Potosi, Bolivia.” British Journal of Ethnomusicology 9 (2): 63–92.

May 22               Music and Memory

READINGS

•Morand, Katell (2014- draft). “Song, Thought, and Remembrance in the Ethiopian Highlands”

•Demorest, Steven M, Steven J Morrison, Münir Beken, and Denise Jungbluth. 2008. “Lost in Translation: An Enculturation Effect in Music Memory Performance.” Music Perception 25 (3): 213–224.

May 29                TBD

June 5                Final Project Presentations