Syllabus 

Online and Printed Resources 

Research Assignments 

Student Research 

Musical Examples 

Books 

The field of ethnomusicology is explained in classics such as: 

John Blacking, How Musical is Man? (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1973); 

Mantle Hood, The Ethnomusicologist (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1971); 

John Kaemmer, Music in Human Life (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1992); 

David P. McAllester, Readings in Ethnomusicology (New York: Johnson Reprint Corporation, 1971); 

Alan P. Merriam, The Anthropology of Music (Evanston, Illinois: Northwestern University Press 1964); 

Bruno Nettl,  Theory and Method in Ethnomusicology (New York: The Free Press, 1964); and The Study of Ethnomusicology (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1983); 

Helen Myers,ed.,  Ethnomusicology, An Introduction (London: Macmillan Press, 1992); 

Kay Kaufman Shelemay, Ethnomusicology: History, Definitions, and Scope (New York: Garland, 1992). 

There are also some useful musical culture area studies, for example: 

Peter Manuel, Popular Musics of the Non-Western World (New York: Oxford University Press, 1988); 

Elizabeth May, ed., Musics of Many Cultures (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1980); 

Helen Myers, ed., Ethnomusicology, Historical and Regional Studies(New York; W.W. Norton, 1993); 

Bruno Nettl et al., Excursions into World Music, 2nd edition (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1997) and Traditional Music of the Western Continents (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall,1965; 

Jeff Todd Titon, Worlds of Music (New York: Schirmer Books, 1984); 
 

Additional Reference Books: 
Another excellent reference is the Garland Encyclopedia of World Music. Multivolume set organized by culture areas.  Information available through the World Music Store. http://www.multiculturalmedia.com/ 

Simon Broughton et al.,  World Music: A Rough Guide (London: Rough Guides, 1994) 

Peter Spencer,  World Beat: A Listener's Guide to Contemporary World Music on CD (Pennington, NJ: A Capella Books, 1992) 

Philip Sweeney,  The Virgin Directory of World Music (London: Virgin Books, 1991) 
 

Organizations, Institutions, and Archives 
      University of Washington has a very good list: 
       http://www.lib.washington.edu/music/world.html  
 

Videos and CD-ROMs 
      JVC Video Anthology of World Music and Dance. Thirty videos cover East Asia, Southeast Asia, South Asia, Middle East, Africa, Europe, Soviet Union, Americas, Oceania. Available through the World Music Store. 
http://www.multiculturalmedia.com/ 

        CD-ROM: Encyclopedia of Musical Instruments. Multimedia guide to 363 musical instruments. Available through the World Music Store. 
http://www.multiculturalmedia.com/ 

Journals 
       Ethnomusicology produced by the Society for Ethnomusicology. 
http://www.indiana.edu/~ethmusic 

        Ethnomusicology OnLine. Free, peer-reviewed, multimedia web journal. http://umbc/eol 

        Music and Anthropology. Peer reviewed, multilingual, multimedia web journal. http://gotan.cirfid.unibo.it/M&A/ 

Record Labels 

These are a few of my favorite world music labels: 

Rounder Records, http://www.rounder.com  

Music of the World, http://www.musicoftheworld.com 

Putumayo, http://www.putumayo.com 

Nonsuch Records, http://www.demon.co.uk/andys/worldcir.html