Teaching plan

Schedule "Norwegian Music for International Students" MUS1401 BA Spring -11

(Arvid O. Vollsnes, ? arvid@imv.uio.no, room 314 ZEB, ph + 54760)

Thursday

20 Jan ? The broad lines

27 Jan ? Organization of musical life

? 3 Feb ? Musical institutions

10 Feb ? Folk music

17 Feb ? European or National music?

24 Feb ? NO CLASS

? 3 Mar ? Rock and the popular music scene (Hans Thv. Zeiner-Henriksen)

10 Mar ? Rock and the popular music scene (Hans Thv. Zeiner-Henriksen)

17 Mar ? New trends in the last decades

24 Mar ? SEMINAR

31 Mar ? SEMINAR

? 7 Apr ? SEMINAR

14 Apr ? SEMINAR

21 Apr ? EASTER break

28 Apr ? SEMINAR

Thursday 12:15-14:00, Seminarrom 1, ZEB-bygningen

Assignments ? Four individual assignments (approved by teacher) and one individual presentation of the proposed essay in a seminar are required before the final essay is started.

Exam information ? An essay assignment that consists of c.10-12 pages (each 2300 characters without spaces).

The student submits a temporary proposal of topic before 25 February and a final version of theme, reading list etc 1 April. The student presents his/her proposed essay in a seminar. The essay is finally submitted in FRONTER, at the latest 23 May.

Assessment and grading ? Course grades are awarded on a descending scale using alphabetic grades from A to E for passes and F for fail.

Literature

Grinde, Nils: A history of Norwegian music. (Lincoln:University of Nebraska Press, 1991)

Maager?, Eva & Birte Simonsen (ed.): Norway - Society and Culture. (Portal:Kristiansand, 2008)

Storey, John: Inventing Popular Culture. From Folklore to Globalization (Chpt 6&8 on www)

Weisethaunet, Hans: ¡±Historiography and complexities: why is music ¡®national¡¯?¡± (on:) ? http://www.swetswise.com/eAccess/viewToc.do?titleID=253764&yevoID=2216109

?yvind ?sterud: "Norwegian Nationalism in European Context" (p. 29-39) ? in S?rensen, ?ystein (ed): Nationalism in small European nations. ? (KULTs skriftserie no 47), Oslo 1996 ? (also in this book: Miroslav Hroch: "Specific Features of the Nation-Forming" (p. 7-28))

?ystein S?rensen: "The Development of a Norwegian National Identity during the Nineteenth Century", ? in ? S?rensen, ?ystein (ed): Nordic paths to national identity in the nineteenth century. ? (KULTs skriftserie no 22), Oslo 1994

and material we gradually will accumulate through your assignments.

Listening material will be found at the library and in Vollsnes, A.O.: Norges musikkhistorie vol. 1-5. (Reserved at the reading room at Sophus Lies hus, on loan from the HUMSAM library.)