MUS 39 A Critical Inquiry of Sound: Experimental Ethnographic Field Methods

This course critically inquires methodological challenges and theoretical concerns that confront the ethnographer of sound during ethnomusicological/anthropological fieldwork. How can we approach writing about our ethnographic project without silencing the voices of those who should be heard? What institutional infrastructures do we face in designing our ethnographic projects? What possibilities, moreover, do recent developments in sensory and experimental ethnography open for us? A set of readings will suggest some practical answers to these questions.

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