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PAVLOS KAVOURAS (NIKOS POULAKIS)
Ethnographic cinema and documentary
Modernity and the cinema. Cinema as a modern art form and a fundamental expression of western
modernity. Cinema and the critique of modernity. Reality film (cinéma vérité) and commercial film:
between documentary and fiction. Film studies and ethnography: expressive features and theoretical
relevance. Reality film in an ethnographic perspective: between ethnographic film and cinematic
ethnography. Ethnographic cinema, cultural anthropology and ethnomusicology. Ethnographic
analysis and critical discussion of the films “Nanook of the North” (Robert Flaherty), “Man with a
Movie Camera” (Dziga Vertov), “La Chasse de Lion avec l’ Arc” (Jean Rousse), “Amir” (John
Baily) and “΄Αre ΄Αre Music” (Hugo Zemp). The course is supported by audiovisual examples.
Students are required to prepare and present a project and take a final written exam.
Music and cinema: Anthropological approaches
Music and cinema in a historical and anthropological perspective. The origins of incidental music
(shadow theatre, variety show and musical theatre). Music in silent and sound cinema (practices and
functions). Film music analysis (theoretical and methodological models). Film genres and music.
Film music and performance. Media anthropology, anthropology of film music, film
(ethno)musicology and film studies. The course is supported by audiovisual examples. Students are
required to prepare and present a project and take a final written exam.
Seminar: Music Ethnographies
Ethnographic methodology and the issue of the production of knowledge with reference to music,
perceived as a historically-culturally particular formation. Students are requested to select a
contemporary music ethnography and present it critically in class. The analysis focuses on the
poetic and rhetorical aspects of the selected ethnographic text, mainly its research and writing
dimensions. The music ethnography is juxtaposed with the orientations and criticism of
contemporary ethnographic theory.
ANASTASSIOS HAPSOULAS
Ethnomusicology I
The aim of the course is to introduce students to the definition, scope, and methods of
Ethnomusicology. Through a survey of its history, the course explores the relationship of
Ethnomusicology with Historical and Systematic Musicology, as well as current tendencies in the
discipline.
Ethnomusicology II
The course presents and analyses specific topics from the field of Ethnomusicology. The class is
organized around a series of issues that include: social dimensions of musical expression, oral and
literate musical creation, analysis and performance, continuity in musical traditions.
Music Transcription and Analysis in Ethnomusicology
Music transcription and analysis constitute two of the most significant tools of Ethnolusicology for
the investigation of the tone systems and morphology characteristics of oral musical idioms or
traditions. The objective of the course is to teach students how to use the methods of transcription
and analysis and familiarize them with the particular issues that arise from the notation of sound due
to the particularities of different musical idioms.
Arab-Persian Music
The aim of the course is to introduce students to the scholarly musical tradition of Arabs and
Persians, which was cultivated in the aristocrats' courts, and was differently developed in different
caliphates. The main topics we will investigate are: the formation of Arabian theory of music during
the Middle Ages, the role of Syrian and Arabian translators in the diffusion of ancient Greek
musical/theoretical thought, the historical and cultural context of sources, the tone-system of Arabs
and Persians, the genres of religious and secular music, the instruments and instrumental ensembles.
Lectures will also include musical examples.
Indian Music
India is the cradle of one of the oldest musical cultures of the world. The aim of this course is to
introduce students to issues concerning culture and development of the so called “classical” Indian
music, which was mainly developed in the aristocrats' courts. The course investigates the role of
religion in hymnology of bedes, the relationship between language and music, musical theory and
the tone-system, music notation and timbre aesthetic, instrumental ensemble, as well as interactions
with other musical cultures (Arabian and Persian). Lectures will also include musical examples.
ΜARIA PAPAPAVLOU
WINTER TERM
Music cultures of the Mediterranean: South Europe and Turkey
The geographical area of the Mediterranean, consists of a variety of different cultures, connected to
an extended historical past which is characterized by multidimensional economic, social and
cultural changes. The specific changes attracted the academic interest, in the fields of both, social
(history, sociology, anthropology), and science studies (geography, geology, biology, medicine).
The course introduces an ethnomusicological and anthropological approach to the study of several
musical cultures of the Mediterranean. The scientific interest examines the relationship between
music and culture through the application of theoretical and methodological tools on various
examples of ethnomusicological field research. Moreover, by examining a variety of music
ethnographies and by listening to specific musical examples, the course explores the areas of: i)
Iberian peninsula, focused on the genres of fados (Portugal) and flamenco (Spain), ii) Southern
Italy, focused on the cases of the Grecophone villages and napolitan tradition, iii) musical traditions
of Sardinia and Corsica, iv) ethnomusicological Greek ethnographies and v) Turkey, focused on
sufi tradition as expressed by the music tradition of the dervishes.
SPRING TERM
Music cultures of the Mediterranean: North Africa and Middle East
This course is the second part of the subject area “Musics of the Mediterranean”. During the first
semester, the course focused on the areas of South Europe and Turkey, whereas in the second
semester, the course focuses on the areas of North Africa and the Middle-East. More specifically,
the course introduces an ethnomusicological and anthropological approach to the study of several
musical cultures of the Mediterranean. The scientific interest examines the relationship between
music and culture through the application of theoretical and methodological tools on various
examples of ethnomusicological field research. Moreover, by examining a variety of music
ethnographies and by listening to specific musical examples, the course explores the areas of: i)
Morocco, focusing on the gnawa musical genre and trance rituals, ii) Tunisia, focusing on the
stambeli musical genre, iii) Algeria, focusing on the rai musical genre connected to the Algerian
immigrants in Paris, iv) Egypt, focusing on religious music, v) Syria, focusing on the sufi tradition
of dhikr.
Ethnomusicology and Music Education
Multicultural classrooms in contemporary Greek schools contradict the single-cultural character of
the Greek System of Education. The ‘problem’ of undifferentiated education of both, native and
foreign students in the same class, becomes a ‘challenge’ and reason for the development of a
dialogue within the frame of intercultural education. Multiculturalism is part of the problematic
relationship between culture, and more specifically music, and education, and derives theoretical
and methodological tools from ethnomusicology and cultural anthropology. The aim of the course
is to familiarize students with multicultural ways of teaching music in the contemporary
multicultural school.
VASSILIKI LALIOTI
WINTER TERM
Cultural and Music Anthropology I - [69ΜΜ78]
The aim of the course is to introduce students to the subject of study, methodologies and products
of work of social/cultural anthropology. More analytically, we will make an historical review of the
key concepts, methods, questions, topics and tendencies in anthropologists' effort to understand
culture in historical as well as in global perspectives. Special emphasis will be given on
ethnography, that is, the method and product of anthropological research. Through various
ethnographic examples we will investigate topics that are central in contemporary anthropological
thought: culture and meaning, language and communication, social construction of identity and
reality, cultural aspects of social and economic hierarchies.
Popular Music: Anthropological Approaches - [69Μ170]
Anthropology has rather ignored popular culture in general and popular music in particular,
although it constitutes an inseparable aspect of people's everyday life. Nowadays, however,
anthropologists and ethnomusicologists turn to the study of urban, Western societies and become
more interested in the study of phenomena such as globalization and transcendence of clearly
defined musical and cultural boundaries. The main contribution of anthropology to the
interdisciplinary, international and especially developed field of contemporary popular music, is the
ethnographic investigation of the musical experiences of people who make and listen to the music
in specific historical and cultural contexts. Through ethnographic examples from various music
cultures (rock, pop, electronic, hip hop etc.), we will explore issues like the relationship between
humans and technology, ethnic and gender identities, the construction of virtual musical
communities.
SPRING TERM
Cultural and Music Anthropology II - [69ΜΟ59]
After having completed a review of the key concepts, methods, and subjects of study of
social/cultural anthropology, in this course we will focus in the anthropological study of music.
More specifically, we will study music from the point of view of anthropology, as a social and
cultural phenomenon that forms, and is formed by, social relations, cultural identities and meanings.
Through various ethnographic examples, we will investigate the main theoretical orientations (like
interpretive phenomenology and ethnographic criticism) and issues (like gender, ethnic and national
identities, body and senses, globalization) that current anthropological approaches of music (and
dance) bring.
Music and Theatre: Issues of Performance - [69ΜΜ81]
This course investigates the notion of 'performance' in relation to the performing arts (especially
music and theatre) and to relevant theories. Performance theories derive from various disciplines:
cultural studies, social/cultural anthropology, theatre studies. During lectures we will analyse
performances from various theatrical and musical traditions and investigate the meaning and the
processes of its production, that participants attribute to them.