Assignment
Watch one of the approved ethnomusicological documentaries listed on the .pdf in the Canvas module and answer the following questions (in complete sentences) Questions 3-5 should be answered with at least a full paragraph:
1. Which ?lm did you watch? List the title and the director.
2. Why did you choose this one?
3. Describe the music discussed and heard in the ?lm using terms from class.
4. Describe the way this music is situated in its cultural context. How is it used by the people who make and listen to it? (e.g. is it for rituals? For entertainment? For dancing?
Only for aristocrats?) Also, who performs this music and why? (e.g. only those initiated into the priesthood because of its ritual nature, or young children who play clapping games to accompany their songs, etc.)
5. Compare the music culture from the ?lm you watched to one of the music cultures discussed in class (discuss both music and cultural phenomena).
Hmong musicians in America [videorecording] : interactions with three generations of Hmong Americans 1978
- 1996 / [produced and directed] by Amy Catlin and Nazir Jairazbhoy ; written, edited, and narrated by Amy Catlin Romany trail [videorecording] / a Harcourt Films production ; director.
- producer Jeremy Marre Suki yaki and chips [videorecording] : the Japanese sounds of music / produced and directed by Jeremy Marre ; a Harcourt Films production for Channel Four Tex.
- Mex [videorecording] : music of the Texas Mexican borderlands/ produced and directed by Jeremy Marre ; a Harcourt Films production Konkombe [videorecording] : Nigerian music / producer/director Jeremy Marre ; a Harcourt Films production.
Salsa [videorecording] : Latin music of New York and Puerto Rico / produced and directed by Jeremy Marre ; a Harcourt Films production From Africa.
- to India [videorecording] : Sidi music in the Indian Ocean dias pora / a video by Amy Catlin.
- Jairazbhoy in close collaboration with Nazir Ali Jairazbhoy and the Sidi community.