Spring 2027

Ethnographic Methods for Music and Sound

Ethnographic Methods for Music and Sound focuses on material, methodological, and ethical tools for conducting ethnographic fieldwork in musical contexts.

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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2023: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=8 letter grades); Spring 2026: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=7 letter grades).

What you’ll be able to do

  • Demonstrate familiarity with a body of (ethno)musicological and anthropological literature on ethnographic methods.

  • Decipher and explicate difficult texts with increased confidence.

  • Design and carry out ethnographic research projects.

  • Demonstrate an awareness of power dynamics and your own position as researcher.

  • Facilitate discussions effectively.

  • Track key terms across (ethno)musicological and anthropological literature, describing how ethnographers’ relationships with these have changed over time.

Source: UW Guide 1 UW Guide 2

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FOLKLORE/MUSIC 516

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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2023: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=8 letter grades); Spring 2026: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=7 letter grades).

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Topics

  • Material, methodological, and ethical tools for ethnographic fieldwork in musical contexts.
  • (Ethno)musicological and anthropological literature on ethnographic methods.
  • Power dynamics and researcher positionality.

Skills

  • Designing and carrying out ethnographic research projects using material, methodological, and ethical tools.
  • Demonstrating familiarity with (ethno)musicological and anthropological literature on ethnographic methods.
  • Demonstrating awareness of power dynamics and one's own position as a researcher.

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Recorded 2026-10-14

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