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School of Music · ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences
Over the past five hundred years, the world’s societies have become increasingly integrated and interdependent, in economic and cultural terms, through the processes of globalisation. What has this meant for music? On the one hand there has been a sharp rise in the diversity of musical styles flowing around the world; on the other hand, the increasing hegemony of dominant cultures has led to the decline or complete loss of many unique musical practices. This course examines the impact of globalisation on local musical practices, exploring how music plays an essential role in articulating identity and place, how music developed into a commodity that is bought and sold, and how music remains a crucial factor in cultural survival throughout our globalised world.
130 hours of total student learning time made up from: a) 36 hours of contact over 12 weeks: 24 hours of lectures, and 12 hours of tutorials; and, b) 94 hours of independent student research, reading and writing.
Preliminary Reading Biddle, Ian D., and Vanessa Knights. Music, National Identity and the Politics of Location: Between the Global and the Local. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007. Bohlman, Philip V. World Music: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. Born, Georgina, and David Hesmondhalgh, eds. Western Music and Its Others: Difference, Representation, and Appropriation in Music. Berkeley; London: University of California Press, 2000. White, Bob W., ed. Music and Globalization: Critical Encounters. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2012.