Ethnographic and Video Documentation

(MUSC7EV H1 (20L-0T-22P-0S-243H-0R-31F-0G-4A-13W-32C))

Prerequisite Requirement: Approval of the Academic Co-ordinator.

Aim: To provide skills in documentary ethnographic videography.

Content: Ethnomusicological approaches to documenting performance and ritual; scriptwriting and development of

storyboards; advanced editing techniques; biographies of musicians and dancers and their repertoires and performance styles; interpreting and representing expressive culture in films, festivals, texts and museum exhibitions using academic ethnographic research; construction of aesthetics and meaning; ethnography of performance.

Assessment

Assignments (30%); Edited documentary (50%); Examination (20%)

DP Requirements

75% attendance; submission of all assignments (50% sub-minimum).