The following is a representative range of readings in “Music and Cultural Studies” and can be used to guide students in the research for their essays. Required and recommended readings for each lecture is posted in the course schedule.
Required readings:
Barker, Chris, and Emma A. Jane. Cultural Studies: Theory and Practice. 5th Edition, 2016. London: Sage. (Main textbook)
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Anderson, Benedict. Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism, 2016 (new edition). London: Verso; Revised ed. edition. (Introduction/selected parts, pp. 1-36.)
Bourdieu, Pierre: Outline of a Theory of Practice, 1977. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Ch. 2 and 4, pp. 72-95 & 159-197.
Deleuze, Gilles & Félix Guattari. 1987 [1980]. '1837: Of the Refrain.' In A Thousand Plateaus. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, pp. 310-350.
Eriksen, Thomas Hylland. 2010. Små steder — store spørsmål. Innføring i sosialantropologi. 3. utgave. Oslo: Universitetsforlaget. Kap. 1-5, pp. 13-78.
[English version: Eriksen, Thomas Hylland: Small Places, Large Issues: An Introduction to Social and Cultural Anthropology. London: Pluto Press; 4th edition, 2015]
Feld, Steven. 2000. “A Sweet Lullaby for World Music”, Public Culture, 12(1), pp. 145-171.
Foucault, Michel: “The order of discourse”, inaugural lecture, December 2, 1970.
Frith, Simon. 2019. “Writing about Popular Music,” in Dingle (Ed.) The Cambridge History of Music Criticism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 502-526.
Geertz, Clifford. 1983. “Art as a Cultural System,” in Local Knowledge: Further Essays in Interpretive Anthropology. New York: Basic Books, pp. 94-120.
Hawkins, Stan. 2017. “Introduction.” The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Music and Gender, pp. 1-12.
Ingold, Tim. 2016. “One world anthropology.” HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory 8(1-2), pp. 158-71.
Keil, Charles and Steven Feld: Music Grooves, 1994. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Chapters 1&2, pp. 53-95.
McClary, Susan. 1991. “Introduction.” In Feminine Endings. University of Minnesota Press, pp. 3-34.
Myers, Helen. 1992. “Ethnomusicology.” In Ethnomusicology. An Introduction. New York: W.W.Norton & Co., pp. 3-18.
Ortner, Sherry. 2007. “Introduction. Updating Practice Theory”, Anthropology and Social Theory: Culture, Power, and the Acting Subject. Durham: Duke University Press, pp. 1-18.
Ruud, Even. 2013. Musikk og identitet. 2. utgave. Oslo: Universitetsforlaget. (Selected parts)
Shepherd, John og Kyle Devine. 2015. “Music and the Sociological Imagination—Pasts and Prospects.”The Routledge Reader on the Sociology of Music, Shepherd and Devine (Eds.). New York: Routledge.
Straw, Will. 2012. “Music and Material Culture,” The Cultural Study of Music: A Critical Introduction, 2nd ed. (Chapter 20). New York: Roultedge.
Valiquet, Patrick. “A Managed Risk: Mediated Musicianships in a Networked Laptop Orchestra,” Contemporary Music Review (online pre-publication version)
Weisethaunet, Hans. 2007. “Historiography and Complexities: Why is music ‘National’?” Popular Music History 2(2), pp. 169-199
Weisethaunet, Hans og Lindberg, Ulf. 2010. “Authenticity Revisited: The Rock Critic and the Changing Real”, Popular Music and Society, 33:4. pp. 465-485.
Williams, Allastair. 2001. “Discourses,” In Constructing Musicology. Aldershot: Ashgate, pp. 21-47.
Some suggested readings (examples), related to Nordic Music:
Björnberg, Alf and Thomas Bossius (eds.) Made in Sweden: Studies in Popular Music, 2016. Routledge.
Fabian Holt & Antti-Ville Kärje (ed.) The Oxford Handbook of Popular Music in the Nordic Countries, 2017. New York: Oxford University Press.
Gripsrud, Jostein (ed.) Allmenningen. Historien om norsk offentlighet, 2017. Oslo: Universitetsforlaget.
Ramnarine, Tina K, Ilmatar's Inspirations: Nationalism, Globalization, and the Changing Soundscapes of Finnish Folk Music, 2003. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Weisethaunet, Hans. “Roots, Routes, and Cosmopolitanism. David Lindley Meets Harding Hank.”, In Fabian Holt & Antti-Ville Kärje (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Popular Music in the Nordic Countries. Oxford University Press, 2017, Chapter 4, pp. 91 - 110.
Monograph:
(It is required to read at least one monograph; here are some suggestions:)
Averill, Gage: A Day for the Hunter, a Day for the Prey: Popular Music and Power in Haiti, 1997. Chicago: Chicago University Press.
Berliner, Paul: Thinking in Jazz: The Infinite Art of Improvisation, 1994. Chicago: Chicago University Press.
Berliner, Paul: The Soul of Mbira: Music and Traditions of the Shona People of Zimbabwe, 1981. Chicago: Chicago University Press.
Born, Georgina. Rationalizing Culture: IRCAM, Boulez and the Institutionalization of the Musical Avant-Garde, 1995. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Doughtry, Martin. Listening to War: Sound, Music, Trauma and Survival in Wartime Iraq, 2015. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Eyre, Banning: In Griot Time: Guitar Cultures of Mali, 2000. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
Feld, Steven: Sound and Sentiment. Birds, Weeping, Poetcis and Song in Kaluli Expression, 2012. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
Feld, Steven: Jazz Cosmopolitanism in Accra, 2012. Durham: Duke University Press.
Gennari, John: Blowin’ Hot and Cool. Jazz and its Critics, 2006. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Gilroy, Paul: The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness, 1993. London: Verso.
Guilbault, Jocelyne: Governing Sound: The Cultural Politics of Trinidad's Carnival Musics, 2007. Chicago: Chicago University Press.
Hebdige, Dick. Subculture: The Meaning of Style, 1979. New York: Routledge.
Hilder, Thomas Richard. Sámi Musical Performance and the Politics of Indigeneity in Northern Europe, 2015. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.
Lewis, George. A Power Stronger Than Itself: The AACM and American Experimentalism, 2009. Chicago: Chicago University Press.
Lilliestam, Lars. Rock på svenska: från Little Gerhard till Laleh, 2013. Bo Ejeby Förlag.
Manuel, Peter: Cassette Culture: Popular Music and Technology in North India, 1993. Chicago: Chicago University Press.
Meintjes, Louis: Sound of Africa: Making Music Zulu in a South African Studio, 2003. Durham: Duke University Press.
Miller, Karl Hagstrom: Segregating Sound: Inventing Folk and Pop Music in the Age of Jim Crow, 2010. Durham: Duke University Press.
Morris, Jeremy. Selling Digital Music, Formatting Culture, 2015. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Neuman, Daniel: The Life of Music in North India: The Organization of an Artistic Tradition, 1990. Chicago: Chicago University Press.
Ochoa Gautier, Anna Maria. Aurality: Listening and Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century Columbia, 2014. Durham: Duke University Press.
Radano, Ronald M: Lying up a Nation: Race and Black Nation, 2003. Chicago: Chicago University Press.
Rice, Timothy: May it Fill Your Soul: Experiencing Bulgarian Music, 1994. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Ruud, Even. 2013. Musikk og identitet. 2. utgave. Oslo: Universitetsforlaget.
Seeger, Anthony: Why Suyá Sing: A Musical Anthropology of an Amazonian People, 2004. University of Illinois Press.
Sterne, Jonathan. The Audible Past: Cultural Origins of Sound Reproduction. Durham: Duke University Press.
Stewart, Gary: Rumba on the River: A History of the Popular Music of the Two Congos, 2003. London: Verso.
Stokes, Martin: The Republic of Love: Cultural Intimacy in Turkish Popular Music, 2010. Chicago: Chicago University Press.
Thompson, Emily. The Soundscape of Modernity, 2002. Cambridge: MIT Press.
Turino, Thomas: Moving Away from Silence: Music of the Peruvian Altiplano and the Experience of Urban Migration, 1993. Chicago: Chicago University Press.
Washburne, Christopher. Sounding Salsa: Performing Latin Music in New York City, 2008. Temple University Press.
Waterman, Christopher: Juju: A Social History and Ethnography of an African Popular Music, 1990. Chicago: Chicago University Press.