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Winter 2001
Dr. Dane Kusic
Department of Music
University of Maryland
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REQUIRED SELECTED READINGS

WEEK 1/1

    NOTE:
    The reading of Kusic is a Ph.D. Dissertation, with double-spacing. Do not get 'scared'  by the amount of reading from this dissertation, since its pages are rather short!
     
  • Kusic, Dane.  1996.  Discourse on Three Teravih Namazi-s in Istanbul.  Chapter Three, pp. 69-95.
    • History of Islam, Islam as Religion, Pillars of Islam
  • Kusic, Dane.  1996.  Discourse on Three Teravih Namazi-s in Istanbul.  Chapter Eight, pp. 216-226.
    • Mosque and its Interior
  • Kusic, Dane.  1996.  Discourse on Three Teravih Namazi-s in Istanbul.  Appendix C, pp. 608-615.
    • Ezan

WEEK 1/2
  • Kusic, Dane.  1996.  Discourse on Three Teravih Namazi-s in Istanbul.  Chapter Seven, pp. 183-215.
    • Namaz (Types), Rek'at, Kiraat, Teravih Namazi
  • Kusic, Dane.  1996.  Discourse on Three Teravih Namazi-s in Istanbul.  Chapter Nine, pp. 268-271, 308-310.
    • Musical Concepts: Makam, Karar, Modulation (Optional reading for Musical Concepts: Chapter Twelve, pp. 430-480).
  • Kusic, Dane.  1996.  Discourse on Three Teravih Namazi-s in Istanbul.  Chapter Eight, pp.244-247, 262-266.
    • Kamet, Asr.
  • Kusic, Dane.  1996.  Discourse on Three Teravih Namazi-s in Istanbul.  Chapter Five, pp.126-130.
    • The Cerrahi Tarikat

WEEK 1/3
  • Bruno Nettl et al.  1997.  Excursions in World Music.  Chapter (Iran), pp. 
  • Kusic, Dane.  1996.  Discourse on Three Teravih Namazi-s in Istanbul.  Chapter Nine, pp. 316-328.
    • The Suite: Fasils and Dastgah, Beste-Sarki

WEEK 2/1
  • Hammoudi, Abdellah. 1993. The Victim and Its Masks. An Essay on Sacrifice and Masquerade in the Maghreb. Transl. by Paula Wissing. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press. (Originally published as La victime et ses masques: Essai sur le sacrifice et la mascarade au Maghreb. Paris: Éditions du Seuil, 1988).  Chapter 1: pp. 15-32.
  • Bruno Nettl et al.  1997.  Excursions in World Music.  Chapter (China), pp. 

WEEK 2/2
  • Bruno Nettl et al.  1997.  Excursions in World Music.  Chapter (China), pp. 

WEEK 2/3
  • Bruno Nettl et al.  1997.  Excursions in World Music.  Chapter (China), pp. 
  • Mackerras, Colin, ed. 1983. Chinese Theater: From Its Origins to the Present. Honolulu, Hawaii: University of Hawaii Press. 
    • Chapter IV, "The Drama of the Qing Dynasty" (Excerpt) by C. Mackerras: pp. 102-117.
    • Chapter V, "The Performance of Classical Theater" by A.C. Scott: pp. 118-142.

WEEK 3/1
  • Bruno Nettl et al.  1997.  Excursions in World Music.  Chapter (Japan), pp. 

WEEK 3/2
  • Bruno Nettl et al.  1997.  Excursions in World Music.  Chapter (Indonesia), pp. 
  • Yampolski, CD jacket notes on Dangdut and Kroncong

WEEK 3/3
  • Bruno Nettl et al.  1997.  Excursions in World Music.  Chapter (Africa), pp. 
  • Waterman, Christopher A. 1990a. Jùjú: A Social History and Ethnography of an African Popular Music. Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology; Philip V. Bohlman and Bruno Nettl, eds. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press.
    • Chapter One: Introduction, pp. 1-26.
    • Chapter Two: pp. 27, 53-54 (Palmwine music, Conclusion)
    • Chapter Three: Early Jùjú Music, pp. 55-56, 60-65 (Instruments, Context, Patronage), 76-81 (Mass Reproduction, Conclusion).
    • Chapter Four: Modern Jùjú, pp. 82-84, 115-147.

WEEK 4/1
  • Erlmann, Veit.  1991.  African Stars. 
    • Chapter  One: Introduction, pp. 1-20.
    • Chapter  Two: Orpheus McAdoo, pp. 21-53.
    • Chapter  Four: Ingoma Dance, pp. 95-111.
    • Chapter  Seven: Conclusion, pp. 1175-182.

WEEK 4/2
  • Erlmann, Veit.  1996.  Nightsong: Performance, Power, and Practice in South Africa.  With an Introduction by Joseph Shabalala.  Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology; Philip V. Bohlman and Bruno Nettl, eds.  Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press.  (The book is accompanied by a sixty-minute video).
    • "The Way We Look to US All," pp. 306-313.

OPTIONAL READINGS OF INTEREST:

Dictionaries and Encyclopedias

  • 1960-. The Encyclopaedia of Islam. New edition, in progress: Vol. 1, 1960 [photomechanical reprint 1967]; Vol. 2, 1965 [photomechanical reprint 1970]; Vol. 3, 1971; Vol. 4, 1978; Vol. 5, 1986. H.A.R. Gibb et al., eds. Leiden: E.J. Brill / London: Luzac & Co.
  • 1980. The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians 1-20. Stanley Sadie, ed. London: Macmillan Publishers Limited; Washington, D.C.: Grove's Dictionaries of Music Inc.; Hong Kong: Peninsula Publishers Limited.
  • 1961. Shorter Encyclopaedia of Islam. Photomechanic reprint. H.A.R. Gibb and J.H. Kramers, eds. Edited on Behalf of the Royal Netherlands Academy. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. (Originally published in 1953 by E.J. Brill, Leiden).
Books and Articles
  1. Abu-Lughod, Lila. 1986. Veiled Sentiments: Honor and Poetry in a Bedouin Society. Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press.
  2. And, Metin. 1987. Karagöz: Turkish Shadow Theater. Third edition. Istanbul: Dost Yaynlar. (Originally published in 1975).
  3. Attali, Jacques. 1985. Noise: The Political Economy of Music. Translated by Brian Massumi. Theory and History of Literature, Volume 16. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. (Originally published in 1977 as Bruits: essai sur l'économie politique de la musique. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France).
  4. ____. 1991. Millennium: Winners and Losers in the Coming World Order. Translated by Leila Conners and Nathan Gardels. New York: Time Books - Random House. (Originally published in 1990 as Lignes d'horizon. Paris: Librairie Arthème Fayard).
  5. Becker, Judith and Alton. 1981. "A Musical Icon: Power and Meaning in Javanese Gamelan Music." The Sign in Music and Literature: 203-215. See Steiner 1981.
  6. Berliner, Paul F. 1981. The Soul of Mbira. Music and Traditions of the Shona People of Zimbabwe. First Paperback Printing. Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press. (Originally published 1978).
  7. Clifford, James and George E. Marcus, eds. 1986. Writing Culture. The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography. A School of American Research Advanced Seminar, "Experiments in Contemporary Anthropology," Santa Fe, NM, April 1984. Berkeley, Ca.: University of California Press.
  8. Coplan, David B. 1994. In the Time of Cannibals: The World Music of South Africa's Basotho Migrants. Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology; Philip V. Bohlman and Bruno Nettl, eds. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press.
  9. Denny, Frederick M. 1988. "Qur'n Recitation Training in Indonesia: A Survey of Contexts and Handbooks." Approaches to the History of the Interpretation of the Qur'n: 288-306. Andrew Rippin, ed. Oxford: The Clarendon Press.
  10. Derrida, Jacques. 1996. Archive Fever: A Freudian Impression. Translated by Eric Prenowitz. Religion and Postmodernism, edited by Mark C. Taylor. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press. (Originally presented as a lecture on June 5, 1994, at a colloquium in London, England, entitled "Memory: The Question of Archives." Originally published in 1995 as Mal d'Archive: une impression freudienne, Paris: Éditions Galilée. English translation first published in Diacritics, Summer 1995).
  11. Dornfeld, Barry. 1992. "Representation and Authority in Ethnographic Film/Video: Reception." Ethnomusicology 36(1): 95-98.
  12. Erlmann, Veit. 1991. African Stars: Studies in Black South African Performance. Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology; Philip V. Bohlman and Bruno Nettl, eds. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press.
  13. ____. 1996. Nightsong: Performance, Power, and Practice in South Africa. With an Introduction by Joseph Shabalala. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press. (The book is accompanied by a sixty-minute video. On reserve in the UMBC Library).
  14. Feldman, Walter. 1992. "Musical Genres and Zikir of the Sunni Tarikats of Istanbul." The Dervish Lodge: 187-202. See Lifchez 1992.
  15. Frazer, Sir James George. 1941. The Golden Bough. A Study in Magic and Religion. Volume One, abridged edition. New York: The Macmillan Company. (Reprint of the first Macmillan edition published in 1922).
  16. Geertz, Clifford. 1960. "The Javanese Kijaji: The Changing Role of a Cultural Broker." Comparative Studies in Society and History 2: 228-249.
  17. ____. 1971. Islam Observed. Religious Developments in Morroco and Indonesia. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press.
  18. ____. 1973a. The Interpretation of Cultures. Selected Essays. New York: Basic Books, Inc., Publishers.
  19. ____. 1973b. "Thick Description: Toward an Interpretive Theory of Culture." The Interpretation of Cultures: 3-30.
  20. ____. 1973d. "Deep Play: Notes on the Balinese Cockfight." Chapter Fifteen of The Interpretation of Cultures: 412-453.
  21. ____. 1976. The Religion of Java. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press. (Originally published by The Free Press of Glencoe, 1960).
  22. Gellner, Ernest. 1985. "No haute cuisine in Africa." Relativism and the Social Sciences: 158-66. See Gellner 1990b. [Reprint of the book review of Goody 1982, originally published in 1982 in London Review of Books 4(16)].
  23. ____. 1990. Relativism and the Social Sciences. Reprint. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (First published in 1985).
  24. Gibb, H.A.R. 1949. Mohammedanism: An Historical Survey. "The Home University Library of Modern Knowledge" 197. London: Oxford University Press.
  25. Grenier, Line and Jocelyne Guilbault. 1990. "'Authority' Revisited: The 'Other' in Anthropology and Popular Music Studies." Symposium: The Representation of Musical Practice and the Practice of Representation. Ethnomusicology 34(3): 381-397.
  26. Hammoudi, Abdellah. 1993. The Victim and Its Masks. An Essay on Sacrifice and Masquerade in the Maghreb. Transl. by Paula Wissing. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press. (Originally published as La victime et ses masques: Essai sur le sacrifice et la mascarade au Maghreb. Paris: Éditions du Seuil, 1988).
  27. Hurgronje, C. Snouck. 1906a. The Achehnese 1. Two Volumes. Translated by A.W.S. O'Sullivan with an Index by R.J. Wilkinson. Leyden: E.J. Brill.
  28. ____. 1906b. The Achehnese 2. Two Volumes. Translated by A.W.S. O'Sullivan with an Index by R.J. Wilkinson. LeydenE.J. Brill.
  29. ____. 1931. Mekka in the Latter Part of the 19th Century. Daily Life, Customs and Learning. The Moslims of the East-Indian-Archipelago. Translated by J.H. Monahan. With 20 Plates and 2 Maps. Leyden / London: E.J. Brill / Luzac & Co.
  30. Karpat, Kemal H. 1976. The Gecekondu: Rural Migration and Urbanization. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  31. Kusic, Dane. 1996. Discourse on Three Teravih Namaz-s in Istanbul: An Invitation to Reflexive Ethnomusicology. Ph.D. Dissertation. University of Maryland Baltimore County.
  32. Lewin, Ellen and William L. Leap (eds). 1996. Out in the Field: Reflections of Lesbian and Gay Anthropologists. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press.
  33. Lifchez, Raymond, ed. 1992. The Dervish Lodge: Architecture, Art, and Sufism in Ottoman Turkey. Berkeley, Los Angeles, Oxford: University of California Press.
  34. Lortat-Jacob, Bernard. 1995. Sardinian Chronicles. Forword by Michel Leiris. Translated from French by Teresa Lavender Fagan. Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology; edited by Philip Bohlman and Bruno Nettl. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press. (Originally published as Chroniques sardes. Paris: Julliard, 1990).
  35. Lutz, Catherine A. and Jane L. Collins. 1993. Reading National Geographic. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press.
  36. Mackerras, Colin, ed. 1983. Chinese Theater: From Its Origins to the Present. Honolulu, Hawaii: University of Hawaii Press.
  37. Malinowski, Bronislaw. 1922. Argonauts of the Western Pacific. London: Routledge.
  38. ____. 1967. A Diary in the Strict Sense of the Term. Preface by Valetta Malinowska, Intorduction by Raymond Firth. Translated by Norbert Guterman. Index of Native Terms by Mario Bick. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc.
  39. Manuel, Peter. 1988. Popular Musics of the Non-Western World: An Introductory Survey. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  40. ____. 1993. Cassette Culture: Popular Music and Technology in North India. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press.
  41. Marcus, George E. and Michael M.J. Fischer. 1986a. Anthropology as Cultural Critique: An Experimental Moment in the Human Sciences. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press.
  42. ____. 1986b. "Ethnography and Interpretive Anthropology." Chapter Two of Anthropology as Cultural Critique: 17-44.
  43. May, Elizabeth, ed. 1983. Musics of Many Cultures. An Introduction. Foreword by Mantle Hood. First Paperback Printing. Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press. (Originally Published in 1980).
  44. Mead, Margaret. 1977. Letters from the Field. 1925-1975. World Perspectives 52. New York: Harper & Row, Publishers.
  45. Murata, Sachiko and William C. Chittick. 1994. The Vision of Islam. Visions of Reality: A Series on Religions As Worldviews, Edited by Roger Corless. New York: Paragon House.
  46. Pickthall, Marmaduke. nd. The Meaning of the Glorious Koran. An explanatory translation by M. Pickthall. New York: Dorset Press.
  47. Pratt, Mary Louise. 1986. "Fieldwork in Common Places." Writing Culture: 27-50. See Clifford and Marcus 1986.
  48. Rabinow, Paul. 1977. Reflections on Fieldwork in Morocco. With a Foreword by Robert N. Bellah. Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press.
  49. Sahlins, Marshall. 1985. Islands of History. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press.
  50. ____. 1995. How "Natives" Think: About Captain Cook, For Example. Chicago & London: The University of Chicago Press.
  51. Said, Edward W. 1978. Orientalism. New York: Pantheon Books.
  52. Shostak, Marjorie. 1981. Nisa: The Life and Words of a !Kung Woman. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press.
  53. Steiner, Wendy (ed.). 1981 The Sign in Music and Literature. The Dan Danciger Publication Series. Austin: University of Texas Press.
  54. Stokes, Martin. 1992. The Arabesk Debate: Music and Musicians in Modern Turkey. Oxford Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
  55. Titon, Jeff Todd. 1988. Powerhouse for God: Speech, Chant, and Song in an Appapachian Baptist Church. Austin: University of Texas Press.
  56. Titon, Jeff Tod, ed. 1996. Worlds of Music: An Introduction to the Music of the World's Peoples. Third edition. New York: Schirmer Books. (Book accompanied by a set of three CDs. Second edition published in 1992).
  57. Waterman, Christopher A. 1990a. Jùjú: A Social History and Ethnography of an African Popular Music. Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology; Philip V. Bohlman and Bruno Nettl, eds. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press.
  58. ____. 1990b. "'Our Tradition is a Very Modern Tradition': Popular Music and the Construction of Pan-Yoruba Identity." Symposium: The Representation of Musical Practice and the Practice of Representation. Ethnomusicology 34(3): 367-379.
  59. Watt, W. Montgomery. 1974. The Majesty That Was Islam: The Islamic World 661-1100. Great Civilizations Series. New York: Praeger Publishers.
  60. Zonis, Ella. 1973. Classical Persian Music: An Introduction. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press.
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