Slobin and Titon, The Music Model as a World of Music.

Slobin-Titon’s article discusses some of the core concepts of this course as well as outlines some of the methodologies we will use in this class. In other words, the readings assigned for next week will provide the framework for our discussions, journal entries, midterm, and final projects. Keep this in mind because you might need to reference them down the line.

For your discussion threads, I want you to center your attention around the following questions:

According to the article, is music a “universal language”?

How do the authors define culture and what role does music play in it?

What are some elements that allow us to study music, not as a descriptive object (the study of pitch, meter, etc.) but as a social phenomenon?

Finally, was the way you think about music challenged in any way? Did you learn something new about it?

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file linked for the article