ETHN 304 - Engaging the “Other”: From Colonial Echoes to Decolonzing Strategies

Next Offered: Fall Semester

Semester Offered: First Semester
FC
Credits: 4
Attribute: CNDP, DDHU, CD

This course will move from a consideration of colonial echoes in musical practices to the latest strategies to decolonize ethnomusicology. Engaging postconolonial theory, we’ll consider colonialist practices of engaging and coming to know the “other,” ranging from World Fairs to sound archives and museums. The course will expose the colonialist legacies of ethnomusicology’s past enabled by the invention of the gramophone before turning our attention to decolonizing strategies and next practices, including repatriation of archival materials to their rightful owners, collaborative ethnography, and designing new, community-driven modes of knowledge production and dissemination.

Enrollment Limit: 15
Instructor: J. Fraser

Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
Prerequisites & Notes: ETHN 100 or CMUS 103 suggested; and/or ETHN course @200 level.