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DRPS : Course Catalogue : School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures : Scottish Ethnology

Postgraduate Course: Traditional Music - The Modern Day and Recent Past (SCET11013)

Course Outline
SchoolSchool of Literatures, Languages and Cultures CollegeCollege of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
Credit level (Normal year taken)SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) AvailabilityAvailable to all students
SCQF Credits20 ECTS Credits10
SummaryThis course takes the 1950s as its starting point and explores aspects of Scottish traditional music in society under the following headings: 1) traditional music in the community (using a series of case studies), 2) technologies (e.g. use of electric instruments), and 3) organisations (including those involved in teaching and learning). Students will be assigned one piece of key reading each week and a study visit will take place as part of the course. The discipline of ethnomusicology will be emphasised. Field recordings found in the School of Scottish Studies Archives will be complemented by commercial recordings from contemporary musicians.
Course description Not entered
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations Other requirements None
Information for Visiting Students
Pre-requisitesNone
High Demand Course? Yes
Course Delivery Information
Not being delivered
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
  1. demonstrate familiarity with case-studies of traditional music in the community, e.g. coastal walks in North-East Scotland, and considered related items of repertoire;
  2. show awareness of some of the issues connected to traditional music at the modern-day and recent past, e.g. revival, authenticity, transmission, policy;
  3. demonstrate familiarity with various aspects of the discipline of ethnomusicology, particularly as it pertains to fieldwork;
  4. demonstrate familiarity with a range of relevant scholarship on the themes covered in the course;
  5. show competence in transferable skills, e.g. critical evaluation of source material, independent reading, coherent and clearly structured writing, oral presentation, group discussion, time management.
Reading List
None
Additional Information
Course URL http://www.celtscot.ed.ac.uk/
Graduate Attributes and Skills Not entered
Special Arrangements Jointly taught with undergraduate students (SCET10022)
KeywordsNot entered
Contacts
Course organiserDr Lori Watson
Tel: (0131 6)50 8415
Email: lori.watson@ed.ac.uk
Course secretaryMiss Charlotte McLean
Tel: (0131 6)50 4114
Email: cmclean9@exseed.ed.ac.uk
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