Fieldwork Methods in Music, Sound, and Culture (ANTH-0154)

Spring 2025 · ANTH 0154 · Tufts University · 3 credits · Undergraduate

Experiential and critical approach to ethnographic field research in the arts and humanities. Hands-on learning assignments in project design, participant-observation, field note taking, interview techniques, audio-visual documentation, and ethnographic writing. Ethics of knowledge production, complexities of self-other relations, and awareness of implicit bias. Decolonial, collaborative, and multimodal methodologies. Strategies for creating written, visual, and multimedia representations of music, sound, and embodied cultural expressions, and their entanglements with social issues. Recommendations: Major or minor in Anthropology or in Music, Sound, and Culture, or graduate standing, or instructor permission.

Course codes: ANTH-0154, ANTH 0154, ANTH0154, ANTH-154, ANTH 154, ANTH154, MUS-0184, MUS 0184, MUS0184, MUS-184, MUS 184, MUS184

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