27928 - Laboratory (1) (LM) (G. B)

Academic Year 2021/2022

  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Music and Theatre Studies (cod. 8837)

Learning outcomes

At the end of the Laboratory the student will be able to: 1) acquire skills in the practical application of the abilities developed during the courses; 2) interact effectively within professional activities in the field of planning, production, and dissemination of performing arts activities.

Course contents

The Laboratory focuses on field research methodologies, with a specific attention to the investigation of rituals, ceremonial occasions, music and theatre, and their audiovisual documentation.

Readings/Bibliography

Kanigel, Robert, 2021, Hearing Homer’s song: the brief life and big idea of Milman Parry, New York, Alfred A. Knopf.

Scaldaferri, Nicola (a cura di), 2021, Wild Songs, Sweet Songs: The Albanian Epic in the Collections of Milman Parry and Albert B. Lord, Cambridge, Center for Hellenic Studies, Harvard University Press.

Przybylski, Liz, 2020, Hybrid Ethnography: Online, Offline, and In Between, Riverside, SAGE Publications Inc.

Teaching methods

Critical viewing of documentary films, interactive lessons in which specific methodologies of investigation are presented and discussed.

Assessment methods

During lessons.

Teaching tools

Audiovisual.

Office hours

See the website of Silvia Bruni