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The course addresses a number of key issues relevant to the globalization of music in the late 20th century; issues such as the politics and aesthetics of worldbeat, the politics of nationalism, race and ethnicity, cross-cultural consumption, the crisis of modernity and the public sphere, the digital revolution, etc.
 

 

   
 

The Global Village Revisited

Marshall McLuhan: Understanding Media. The Extensions of Man. 2nd. ed. Cambridge, Mass.:  MIT Press, 1994

Center and Periphery: Cultural Imperialism and the World System

John Tomlinson: Cultural Imperialism. A Critical Introduction. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991

BMG, CNN & Co.

Robert Burnett: The Global Jukebox. The International Music Industry. New York: Routledge, 1996
Roger Wallis and Krister Malm: Big Sounds from Small Peoples. London: Constable, 1992

Postmodern Pessimism and Pastiche: The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism

Veit Erlmann: The Aesthetics of the Global Imagination: Reflections on World Music in the 1990s, Public Culture 8, 1996: 467-87
Fredric Jameson: The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism, in Postmodernism or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism. Durham: Duke University Press, 1991: 1-54

The Center Does Not Hold: Disjuncture, Hybridity and Creolization

Arjun Appadurai: Modernity at Large. Cultural Dimensions of Globalization. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1996, chs.1-3
Ulf Hannerz:  The World in Creolization, Africa 57 (4), 1987: 546-59
Notes on the Global Ecumene, Public Culture 1 (2), 1989: 66-75
Peter Manuel: Music as Symbol, Music as Simulacrum: Postmodern, Pre-Modern, and Modern Aesthetics in Subcultural Musics, Popular Music 14, 1995: 227-39
Timothy D. Taylor:  Global Pop. World Music, World Markets. New York: Routledge, 1997

Ethnicity and the Politics of Authenticity: Nigerian Fuji

Christopher Waterman: Our Tradition is a Very Modern Tradition: Popular Music and the construction of pan- panYoruba identity, Ethnomusicology 34(3), 1995: 367-79
Celebrity and the Public in Yoruba Popular Music Video, Passages 5(1), 1994
Karin Barber and Christopher Waterman: Traversing the Global and the Local: Fújì Music and Praise Poetry in the Production of Contemporary Yorùbá Popular Culture, Daniel Miller, ed., Worlds Apart. Modernity Through the Prism of the Local. New York: Routledge, 1995: 241-62

One Nation Under a Groove? Music and the Nation-State

Martin Stokes: The Arabesk Debate. Music and Musicians in Modern Turkey. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992

Orientalism and the Politics of Cultural Ownership

Steven Feld:  pygmy POP: A Genealogy of Schizophonic Mimesis, Yearbook for Traditional Music, 28, 1996: 1-35
A Sweet Lullaby for World Music, Public Culture 12/1, 2000 

Occidentalism and the Reversal of Mimesis

Ingrid Monson: Riffs, Repetition, and Theories of Globalization, Ethnomusicology, 43/1, 1999:31-65
Christopher Waterman: Race/Music: Corrine Corrina, Bo Chatmon, and the Excluded Middle

 
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