SEMESTER AT SEA COURSE SYLLABUS

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1 SEMESTER AT SEA COURSE SYLLABUS Voyage: Summer 2013 Discipline: Music MUSI 2570: Music Cultures: Mediterranean Division: Lower Division Faculty: Jonathan H. Shannon Pre-requisites: None COURSE DESCRIPTION In this class we will explore a variety of musical cultures of the Mediterranean region, including North Africa, the Levant, and southern Europe. Themes will include music and national identity, gender and sexuality, emotion and meaning, and music and globalization in the Mediterranean region. Readings on specific musical cultures will be complemented by recordings, field trips, and concerts when possible. COURSE OBJECTIVES Students will learn the main varieties of Mediterranean musics and how to analyze them as cultural practices, both in writing and orally. Field Labs will introduce students to aspects of historical and contemporary Mediterranean musical cultures. REQUIRED TEXTBOOKS AUTHOR: Goffredo Plastino TITLE: Mediterranean Mosaic: Popular Music and Global Sounds PUBLISHER: Routledge ISBN #: X DATE/EDITION: 2002 AUTHOR: Tullia Magrini TITLE: Music and Gender: Perspectives from the Mediterranean PUBLISHER: University of Chicago Press ISBN #: DATE/EDITION: 2003 AUTHOR: Bernard Lortat-Jacob TITLE: Sardinian Chronicles. PUBLISHER: University of Chicago Press ISBN #: DATE/EDITION: 1995 Readings available as electronic resources are marked web. Others are available online and are marked ( online at... ). Optional readings are marked Opt. 1

2 OUTLINE OF COURSE C1- June 18: Mediterranean Musics and Cultures: An Introduction Questions: Where and What is the Mediterranean? What is Mediterranean culture and does it exist? What are some stereotypes of the Mediterranean, its peoples and cultures? 1. Plastino, Introduction, Med. Mosaic Writing: The Mediterranean Imagined and Experienced Listening: Selections of Mediterranean musics C2- June 19: The Mediterranean in Anthropological Perspective Questions: How have anthropologists studied Mediterranean cultures? What are some of the problems with the idea of Mediterranean culture? How might music help us understand these dilemmas? 1. Albera and Blok, Introduction The Mediterranean as a Field of Ethnological Study: A Retrospective (web) 2. Herzfeld, The Horns of the Mediterraneanist Dilemma (web) Listening: Selections of Mediterranean musics C3- June 20: The Mediterranean in Historical and Geographical Perspective Questions: How have historians and geographers studied Mediterranean cultures? How can historical and geographical studies influence our analysis of Mediterranean musical cultures? 1. Braudel, The Mediterranean... (Part I pp ) (web) Listening: Selections of Mediterranean musics C4- June 21: Mediterranean Musics: Definitions Questions: What are the varieties of Mediterranean musical cultures? How have they been studied? 1. Fabbri, Paint It Black, Cat. Ch. 1 in Med. Mosaic 2. Seroussi, Yam Tikhoniyut. Ch. 7 in Med. Mosaic 3. Shannon, Performing al-andalus, Remembering al-andalus. (Web) Listening: Selections of Moroccan Andalusian music June 22-June 25: Casablanca Optional Field Trip Visit to Dar al-ala Andalusian Music Museum C5- June 26: Mediterranean Musics and Identities I: Nationalism and Music Questions: How have national subjectivities been constructed in Mediterranean musics? 1. Frishkopf, Some Meanings of the Spanish Tinge... Ch. 6 in Med. Mosaic 2

3 2. Horowitz, Israeli Mediterranean Music. (web) 3. Plastino, Inventing Ethnic Music. Ch. 11 in Med. Mosaic. C6- June 27: Mediterranean Musics and Identities II: Gender and Music Questions: How is gender performed through music? How are Mediterranean musics gendered performances? 1. Magrini, Introduction, Music and Gender 2. Pettan, Male, Female, and Beyond... Ch. 12 in Music and Gender 3. Sugarman, Those Other Women... Ch. 3 in Music and Gender Listening: Selections of Mediterranean Musics C7- June 28: North African Musics Questions: What are the features of North African Popular and Traditional musics? How are they Mediterranean? 1. Davis, New Sounds, Old Tunes. Ch. 5 in Med. Mosaic 2. Glasser, Andalusi Music as Circulatory Practice. (Web) 3. Virolle, Representations and Female Roles... Ch. 8 in Music and Gender Listening: Selections of Mediterranean musics June 29- July 2: Tunis Field Project 1: Visit to CMAM, Tunis C8- July 3: Musics of the Levant I: The Classical Tradition Questions: How was the classical Arab tradition formed? What are its major aesthetic elements? 1. Danielson, Min al-mashayikh (web) Listening: Selections of classical Arab music Class Presentations: Tunis Reports C9- July 4: Musics of the Levant II: The Classical Tradition Today Questions: What are the aesthetic principles of performance in Arab classical music? 1. Danielson, The Voice of Egypt, Chapter 1 (web/reserve) 2. Shannon, Among the Jasmine Trees, Chapter 1 (web/reserve) Listening: Selections of classical Arab music Video: Umm Kulthum in performance (selections from the DVD A Voice Like Egypt ) C10- July 5: Musics of the Levant III: Popular Musics Questions: What are some characteristic features of Levantine popular music? What is the role of music in revolution? 1. Danielson, New Nightingales of The Nile. (web) 3

4 2. LeVine, New Hybridities. (online at 3. Swedenburg. Saida Sultan/Danna International. (web) OR Post 9/11 World Music Listening: Selections of Arab pop music and hip hop Video: Selections from LaTlateh, The Syrian Bear, Omar Offendum, and other music videos July 6-10: Alexandria C11- July 11: Turkish Music I Questions: What are the classical and popular forms of music in Turkey? How have they been studied? 1. Özer, Crossing the Boundaries. Ch. 8 in Med. Mosaic 2. Potuoglu-Cook, Sweat, Power, and Art: Situating Belly Dancers and Musicians in Contemporary Istanbul (online at Listening: Arabesk music Writing: The sounds of Alexandria C12- July 12: Turkish Music II Questions: How has emotion come to be a defining component of Turkish nationalism, and what role does music play in this? 1. Stokes, The Tearful Public Sphere. Ch. 13 in Music and Gender. 2. Stokes, Beloved Istanbul. Online at: Listening: Arabesk, Zeki Müren, Bülent Ersoy July 13-17: Istanbul Potential Field Trip: Concert, Musical Tour of Istanbul with Prof. Ozan Aksoy C13- July 18: Greek Music I: Overview Questions: What are the main features of the Mediterranean musics of Greece? 1. Dawe, Between East and West. Ch. 9 in Med. Mosaic 2. Fabbri, Tilos (online at 3. Holst-Warhaft, Nisiotika. (online at Listening: Greek folk and popular musics C14- July 19: Greek Music II: Rebetika Questions: What is rebetika (rebetiko) music? How are modern subjectivities performed through this music? 4

5 1. Holst-Warhaft, The Female Dervish & Other Shady Ladies. Ch. 6 in Music and Gender 2. Monos, Rebetico (web) Listening: Rebetika music; video: Rembetiko, by Kostas Ferris (selections) July 20-23: Piraeus Optional Field Trip: Visit to Rebetika club C15- July 24: Writing: The Sounds of Piraeus July 25: Study Day and Sea Olympics C16- July 26: Mid-term Examination July 27-31: Marseilles C17- August 1: Musics of Mediterranean Islands I: Sardinia Questions: What are the relationships among music, culture, and forms of representation? 1. Lortat-Jacob, Sardinian Chronicles. Listening: Sardinian song (from CD of Sardinian Chronicles). Writing: The Sounds of Marseilles C18- August 2: Musics of Mediterranean Islands II: Crete, Corsica, Malta, Sicily Questions: What are some of the characteristics of the musics of Mediterranean islands? 1. Bithell, A Man s Game? Ch. 1 in Music and Gender 2. Fugazzotto, A Musical Journey (online at 3. Magrini, Manhood and Music in Western Crete. (web) Listening: Selections of Mediterranean Musics August 3-5: Livorno August 6-9: Civitavecchia C19- August 10: Musics of Spain I: Flamenco Questions: What is Flamenco music and how did it develop into a contested symbol of the Spanish nation? 1. Labajo, Body and Voice. Ch. 2 in Music and Gender 2. Malefyt, Inside and Outside Spanish Flamenco. (web) 5

6 3. Washabaugh, The Flamenco Music and Documentary. (web) 4. Opt. Manuel, Andalusian, Gypsy, and Class Identity. (web) Listening: Flamenco song C20- August 11: Musics of Spain II: Minor Musics Questions: What are the regional musics of Spain (Catalan, Basque, Arab-Andalusian, etc.) and how do they fit into the Mediterranean and national imaginary of modern Spain? 1. Cohen et al, Music in the Balearic and Pityusan Islands. (online at 2. Martinez, Seeking Connections through a Sea. Ch. 2 in Med. Mosaic 3. Shannon, Andalusian Music, Cultures of Tolerance... (web) Listening: Spanish Musics August 12-15: Barcelona Field Trip 2: Visit to Music Museum/Museu de la Música, Barcelona C21- August 16: Music and Religion in the Mediterranean Questions: What are some of the ways that mediterranean musics invoke and create religious meanings? How is music associated with pilgrimage and religious transformation? 1. Bohlman, And She Sang a New Song. Ch. 14 in Music and Gender 2. Seroussi, Archivists of Memory. Ch. 7 in Music and Gender 3. van Nieuwkerk, On Religion, Gender, and Performing. h. 11 in Music and Gender Listening: Religious song of the Mediterranean Class Presentations: Barcelona Reports C22- August 17: Music, Politics, and Globalization in the Mediterranean Questions: How has music been implicated in the political and economic transformations of globalization? How can musical practices illuminate aspects of globalization? How has music been affected by mass media, and how has it in turn changed the media that broadcast it? 1. Gray, Memories of Empire, Mythologies of the Soul. (web) 2. Marranci, ch. 4 in Med. Mosaic 3. Stokes, Music and the Global Order. (web) Listening: Mass mediated Mediterranean popular musics C23- August 18: Mediterranean Music: Final Class Questions: What have we learned? Where are we headed? Catch up! Prepare for Final Examination Listening: The Best of the 2013 Semester at Sea Mediterranean Musics! August 19: Study Day 6

7 C24-August 20: Final Examination August 21: Packing and Reflection August 22: Southampton FIELD WORK (At least 20 percent of the contact hours for each course, to be led by the instructor.) FIELD LAB 1 Visit to Centre d Études Centre des Musiques Arabes et Méditerranéennes (CMAM), Ennejma Ezzahra, Tunis, a major research institute for Arab and Mediterranean musics. Tour of museum and collections. Concert of Tunisian Andalusian music (subject to scheduling). FIELD ASSIGNMENTS Students will take field notes on the museum, the presentation, and the concert. Students will write a short (4-5) page report on their experiences at CMAM. Students will report in class on their results in small groups on July 3 rd. Evaluation will be 80% written report, 20% group presentation for a total of 10 points. FIELD LAB 2 Visit to the Music Museum/Museu de la Música, in Barcelona. Lecture by music researcher Paul Poletti on musical instrument collections and restoration. Concert (subject to scheduling). FIELD ASSIGNMENTS Students will take field notes on the museum, the presentation. Students will write a short (4-5) page report on their experiences at Museu de la Música Students will report in class on their results in small groups on August 16th. Evaluation will be 80% written report, 20% group presentation for a total of 10 points. [Alternative Field Labs include visit to Dar al-ala Andalusian Music museum, Casablanca, and musical tour of Istanbul. Subject to scheduling] METHODS OF EVALUATION / GRADING RUBRIC Midterm Examination: 25 points (25%) Final Examination: 25 points (25%) 7

8 Writing/Participation: 20 points (25%) Field Assignments: 20 points (20%) Attendance: 10 points (10%) Students are expected to attend all class sessions unless they have a valid excuse, and to come prepared to discuss all required readings for each class session. In addition to field lab assignments, students will write short exploratory and informal essays in class after each port visit where they do not have a field lab for this class. These essays will help generate discussion, hone students ethnographic skills, and will be considered part of class participation grade. We will devote a significant amount of time to listening to various Mediterranean musics, and performing them when possible. 8

9 RESERVE LIBRARY LIST AUTHOR: Shannon, Jonathan H. TITLE: Among the Jasmine Trees. PUBLISHER: Wesleyan University Press ISBN #: DATE/EDITION: 2006 AUTHOR: Danielson, Virginia TITLE: The Voice of Egypt. PUBLISHER: The University of Chicago Press ISBN #: DATE/EDITION: 1998 AUTHOR: Goldman, Michal TITLE: Umm Kulthum: A Voice Like Egypt FORMAT: DVD DATE: 2007 [1996] ELECTRONIC COURSE MATERIALS AUTHOR: Albera, Dionigi, and Anton Blok ARTICLE/CHAPTER TITLE: Introduction The Mediterranean as a Field of Ethnological Study: A Retrospective BOOK TITLE: L anthropologie de la Méditerranée Anthropology of the Mediterranean. DATE: 2001 PAGES: AUTHOR: Braudel, Fernand ARTICLE/CHAPTER TITLE: The Peninsulas; The Heart of the Mediterranean; Boundaries; The Mediterranean as a Human Unit. JOURNAL/BOOK TITLE: The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II, Vol. 1. DATE: 1996 PAGES: AUTHOR: Danielson, Virginia ARTICLE/CHAPTER TITLE: New Nightingales of The Nile: Popular Music in Egypt since the 1970s. JOURNAL/BOOK TITLE: Popular Music VOLUME: 15(3) DATE: 1996 PAGES:

10 AUTHOR: Danielson, Virginia ARTICLE/CHAPTER TITLE: Min al-mashâyikh: A View of Egyptian Musical Tradition JOURNAL/BOOK TITLE: Asian Music VOLUME: 22(1) DATE: 1990/1991 PAGES: AUTHOR: Danielson, Virginia ARTICLE/CHAPTER TITLE: The Voice and Face of Egypt. (Chapter 1) JOURNAL/BOOK TITLE: The Voice of Egypt. The University of Chicago Press VOLUME: DATE: 1998 PAGES: 1-20 AUTHOR: Glasser, Jonathan ARTICLE/CHAPTER TITLE: Andalusi Music as a Circulatory Practice. JOURNAL/BOOK TITLE: Anthropology News VOLUME: 51(9) DATE: 2010 PAGES: 9-14 AUTHOR: Gray, Lila Ellen ARTICLE/CHAPTER TITLE: Memories of Empire, Mythologies of the Soul: Fado Performance and the Shaping of Saudade. JOURNAL/BOOK TITLE: Ethnomusicology VOLUME: 51(1) DATE: 2007 PAGES: AUTHOR: Herzfeld, Michael ARTICLE/CHAPTER TITLE: The Horns of the Mediterraneanist Dilemma. JOURNAL/BOOK TITLE: American Ethnologist VOLUME: 11(3) DATE: 1984 PAGES: AUTHOR: Horowitz, Amy ARTICLE/CHAPTER TITLE: Israeli Mediterranean Music: Straddling Disputed Territories. JOURNAL/BOOK TITLE: The Journal of American Folklore VOLUME: Vol. 112, No. 445 DATE: 1999 PAGES:

11 AUTHOR: Magrini, Tullia ARTICLE/CHAPTER TITLE: Manhood and Music in Western Crete. JOURNAL/BOOK TITLE: Ethnomusicology VOLUME: 44(3) DATE: 2000 PAGES: AUTHOR: Malefyt, Timothy Dewaal ARTICLE/CHAPTER TITLE: Inside and Outside Spanish Flamenco. JOURNAL/BOOK TITLE: Anthro. Quarterly VOLUME: 71(2) DATE: 1998 PAGES: AUTHOR: Manuel, Peter ARTICLE/CHAPTER TITLE: Andalusian, Gypsy, and Class Identity in the Contemporary Flamenco Complex. JOURNAL/BOOK TITLE: Ethnomusicology VOLUME: 33(1) DATE: 1989 PAGES: AUTHOR: Monos, Dmitri ARTICLE/CHAPTER TITLE: Rebetico: The Music of the Greek Urban Working Class. JOURNAL/BOOK TITLE: International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society VOLUME: 1(2) DATE: 1987 PAGES: AUTHOR: Shannon, Jonathan H. ARTICLE/CHAPTER TITLE: Among the Jasmine Trees (chapter 1) JOURNAL/BOOK TITLE: Among the Jasmine Trees: Music and Modernity in Contemporary Syria. VOLUME: DATE: 2006 PAGES: AUTHOR: Shannon, Jonathan H. ARTICLE/CHAPTER TITLE: Andalusian Music, Cultures of Tolerance and the Negotiation of Collective Memories: Deep Listening in the Mediterranean. JOURNAL/BOOK TITLE: Cuadernos de Etnomusicología VOLUME: 2 DATE: 2012 PAGES:

12 AUTHOR: Shannon, Jonathan H. ARTICLE/CHAPTER TITLE: Performing al-andalus, Remembering al-andalus: Mediterranean Soundings from Mashriq to Maghrib. JOURNAL/BOOK TITLE: Journal of American Folklore VOLUME: 120(477) DATE: 2006 PAGES: AUTHOR: Stokes, Martin ARTICLE/CHAPTER TITLE: Beloved Istanbul: Realism and the Transnational Imaginary in Turkish Popular Culture. JOURNAL/BOOK TITLE: Mass Mediations: New Approaches to Popular Culture in the Middle East and Beyond, ed. Walter Armbrust. Univ. California Press. VOLUME: Available as ebook at brand=ucpress DATE: 2000 PAGES: AUTHOR: Stokes, Martin ARTICLE/CHAPTER TITLE: Music and the Global Order. JOURNAL/BOOK TITLE: Annual Review of Anthropology VOLUME: 33 DATE: 2004 PAGES: AUTHOR: Swedenburg, Ted ARTICLE/CHAPTER TITLE: Saida Sultan/Danna International: Transgender Pop and the Polysemiotics of Sex, Nation, and Ethnicity on the Israeli-Egyptian Border. JOURNAL/BOOK TITLE: Mass Mediations: New Approaches to Popular Culture in the Middle East and Beyond, ed. Walter Armbrust. VOLUME: Univ. California Press DATE: 2000 PAGES: AUTHOR: Washabaugh, William ARTICLE/CHAPTER TITLE: Flamenco Music and Documentary. JOURNAL/BOOK TITLE: Ethnomusicology VOLUME: 41(1) DATE: 1997 PAGES:

13 HONOR CODE Semester at Sea students enroll in an academic program administered by the University of Virginia, and thus bind themselves to the University s honor code. The code prohibits all acts of lying, cheating, and stealing. Please consult the Voyager s Handbook for further explanation of what constitutes an honor offense. Each written assignment for this course must be pledged by the student as follows: On my honor as a student, I pledge that I have neither given nor received aid on this assignment. The pledge must be signed, or, in the case of an electronic file, signed [signed]. 1 3