MJT 616E - Fieldwork&Laboratory Techniqu.

Course Objectives

1. To evaluate methods and techniques in ethnomusicology
2. To teach technological applications in ethnomusicology
3. To evaluate presentations on fieldwork and ethnographic writing
4. To get information about theoretical debates about fieldwork and ethnography in ethnomusicology.

Course Description

Fieldwork methods. Determining the materials to be collected in the fieldworks. Evaluation of the collected materials. Laboratory techniques. Methods and research methodologies. Developments in audio and visual technology, application of them in the field and laboratory and evaluation. Conditions, spaces and features of preservation. Theoretical principles. Definition and description of the field. Theoretical perspectives. Practice on fieldwork and laboratory techniques. Evaluation of collected materials through laboratory techniques.