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Postgraduate Course: MMus Music in the Community A Practice-Led (MUSI11042)

Course Outline
SchoolEdinburgh College of Art CollegeCollege of Humanities and Social Science
Course typePlacement AvailabilityAvailable to all students
Credit level (Normal year taken)SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) Credits20
Home subject areaMusic Other subject areaNone
Course website None Taught in Gaelic?No
Course descriptionThe course offers an intercultural approach to both practical and theoretical aspects of community music and creative arts.

Students who choose this practical route engage with specific intercultural community music skills and methodologies, as well as theories of interculturality. In the second part of the course, they progress to supervised placement in schools and other community settings.
The objective is to train reflective animateurs able to contribute skillfully and creatively to intercultural community music work.

The course is intended to relate closely to developments in intercultural education in Scottish local authorities, and to the cultural inclusion of new incoming populations in Scotland.
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations Other requirements None
Additional Costs No
Information for Visiting Students
Pre-requisitesNone
Displayed in Visiting Students Prospectus?No
Course Delivery Information
Delivery period: 2011/12 Semester 1, Available to all students (SV1) WebCT enabled:  No Quota:  None
Location Activity Description Weeks Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
No Classes have been defined for this Course
First Class First class information not currently available
No Exam Information
Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes
The objective is to train reflective animateurs able to contribute skillfully and creatively to intercultural community music work.
The course is intended to relate closely to developments in intercultural education in Scottish local authorities, and to the cultural inclusion of new incoming populations in Scotland
Assessment Information
All students will be assessed for attendance and general contribution both to practical and creative work and to discussion (40%).

Supervised placement (practical observation and diary) 60% to be submitted in January .
Special Arrangements
None
Additional Information
Academic description In weeks 1-7 the students are taught in joint classes (3 hours per week) to include practical community music skills related to a number of traditions (e.g. China, India, Middle East etc.) and reflective work on the musical theory and aesthetics of these traditions and on general issues of interculturality.

In weeks 8-12 students proceed to supervised work on placement (1.5 hours per week plus travel)

Syllabus Week 1
Interculture/China
Discussion: cross-cultural transfer and adaptation, hybridity, subcultures, interdisciplinarity, globalisation
Workshop: Chinese songs and games, pentatonic scale; similar songs from Scotland; Chinese heterophony, interdisciplinary work; related community music methodologies

Week 2
China
Discussion and demonstration: Classical Chinese music, instruments, Cantonese opera
Workshop: Opera drums and gongs; rhythm and gesture; related community music methodologies

Week 3
China Now
Discussion and analysis: tradition and adaptation; examples of Chinese modernism, popular music and jazz
Workshop: sonority, texture and gesture; related community music methodologies

Week 4
The Silk Road: China and South East Asia
Discussion: cultural transmission, displacement , diffusion, synchronicity, interdisciplinarity
Workshop: Thai/Indonesian Angkalung; Javanese gamelan; models for community and educational work

Week 5
The Silk Road: India
Discussion and analysis: Indian classical and contemporary music; examples of Indian popular music
Workshop: a simple introduction to raag and tal; comparable scale structures in Scottish music; models for creative, community and educational work; a repertoire of Indian songs

Week 6
The Silk Road: The Middle East
Discussion: interculture, creativity and community; the Middle East, interweaving and confluence
Workshop: a simple introduction to maqam and rhythmic modes; comparable structures in Scottish music; models for creative, community and educational work; a repertoire of Middle Eastern songs

Week 7
The Silk Road: Southern and Eastern Europe to Scotland
Discussion: incoming populations, &«new Scots&ª, integration, inclusion, the Scottish experience
Workshop: examples of songs from Southern and Eastern Europe; Balkan rhythms; the Turkish influence; an example of an intercultural genre $ú &«Sevdah&ª; influences on contemporary Scottish music; models for creative, community and educational work

Week 8
supervised placement in schools

Week 9
supervised placement in schools

Week 10
supervised placement in schools

Week 11

supervised placement in schools

Week 12
Supervised placements in schools; review of placement diaries


Transferable skills Not entered
Reading list Blum, Stephen &«Representations of Music Making&ª Musical Improvisation, Art, Education and Society, ed. by Gabriel Solis and Bruno Nettl. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2009. pp. 240-262

Bor, Joep The Raga Guide Nimbus Records, 2000

Chang, Peter M. Chou Wen-Chung: the life and work of a contemporary Chinese-born American composer. Oxford: Scarecrow Press, 2006

Module X: Experimentalism and Avant-Garde. Hong Kong: Education and Manpower Bureau. 2006

Nagavajara, Chetana &«The Inseparable Bond between Fine Arts and Humanities: A Thai Case Study&ª Fervently Mediating. Criticism from a Thai Perspective. Bangkok: Chomanad Press, 2004. pp.106-121

Nagavajara, Chetana. &«East West Connection&ª Fervently Mediating. Criticism from a Thai Perspective. Bangkok: Chomanad Press, 2004. pp.223-270.

Neuliep, James. Intercultural Communication: A Contextual Approach. London: Sage Publications, 2006.

Racy, Ali Jihad Making Music in the Arab World Cambridge University Press, 2003

Serres, Michel. The Five Senses (translated into to English by Margaret Sankey and Peter Cowley). London; New York: Continuum, 2009.

Tong Gong Tee, &«Grace Liu and Cantonese Opera in England. Becoming Chinese Overseas&ª Lives in Chinese Music, ed. By Helen Rees. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2009. pp. 119-144

Um, Hae-kyung. Diasporas and Interculturalism in Asian Perfoming Arts: ranslating traditions. New York: Routledge Curzon, 2004.

Wade, Bonnie C. Thinking Musically. 2nd edition. New York, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009



Study Abroad Not entered
Study Pattern Not entered
KeywordsNot entered
Contacts
Course organiserProf Nigel Osborne
Tel: (0131 6)50 2424
Email: N.Osborne@ed.ac.uk
Course secretaryMs Karen Bradley
Tel: 0131 221 6085
Email: k.bradley@ed.ac.uk
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