Musical Ethnography: Fieldwork & research, with paper and presentation (150 pts) Musical ethnographya representation, description, and interpretation of some aspect of a music-culture, organized from the standpoint of a particular topichas long been a primary means by which scholars have come to understand the workings of music and how it functions in its cultural context.  Select a subject to observe and research, with interviews being an integral part of your research process.  In most cases, the interviews will actually constitute the project topic.  Write a 5-page paper (1250 words minimum) on your subject.  Include information drawn from at least four scholarly sources, one of which may be a website, and quotations from your interviews.  Cite your sources using in-text citations or footnotes following the Chicago style or MLA citation formats, and include a list of Works Cited.  Incorporation of photographs, when possible, is encouraged; remember to use captions.  Please include a word count at the end of your paper.  Papers are done individually (one per student) and submitted through Blackboard.

In your projects, you may use the research methods of participant observation, cross-cultural comparison, interviews, media analysis, historical analysis, survey research and/or archival research.  Here you are employing and modeling for each other methods from the social sciences to address social phenomena, issues, and problems.  dropboxIn addition, you will be presenting your findings to the class, either individually or with a partner who has chosen a complementary topic.  Presentations will take place Nov. 30 Dec. 11 in the form of slideshows posted in our Class Discussions forums.  Papers are due the same day as your presentation; these are submitted in a dropbox.  In your projects, you may use the research methods of participant observation, cross-cultural comparison, interviews, media analysis, historical analysis, survey research and/or archival research.  Here you are employing and modeling for each other methods from the social sciences to address social phenomena, issues, and problems.  Please, no late projects.