Apr 03, 2025  
Fall 2025 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
Fall 2025 Undergraduate Catalog

MUS 451 - Senior Seminar in Ethnography of Music


Ethnography has grown increasingly central to the scholarly study of music. The engagement of living subjects can illuminate music and musical practice from all times and places. And yet, ethnographic methods are not easily defined, no less learned. The challenges of writing human lives compels us to think ethically, legally, interpersonally, philosophically, often all at once. This course asks students to read extensively in the history of ethnography, reflecting on its key arguments and genealogies.

3 credits

Prerequisite(s): MUS 105  or MUS 109 ; U3 or U4 status

DEC: J

SBC: DIV, ESI, HFA+