MZJ 510E - Anthropology of Music

Course Objectives

• To provide the knowlegde about the theories of cultural anthropology
• To examplify the related music studies based on these theories
• To employ the theories of cultural anthropology in music studies.

Course Description

Cultural anthropology. Functionalism and relation with its music studies. Structural functionalism and its relation with music studies. Structuralism and its relation with music studies.Cognitive ethnology and its relation with music studies. Psychoanalysis and its relation with music studies. Cultural relativism and its relation with music studies. Critical theory and its relation with music studies. Contemporary Approaches.