Music as Heritage: from Tradition to Product. An interdisciplinary course about music as heritage, with a focus on Béla Bartók - theory and practice
Following the success of the previous two editions of the Music as Heritage course, in 2021 this summer university program will place its focus on Béla Bartók, one of the most influential composers of the 20th century and one of the forefathers of ethnomusicology today.
We aim to provide insight into the methodology and approaches of modern musicology as an integral part of heritage studies. We use music as a tool for analyzing and describing social changes, the interaction of state policies, culture, cultural heritage, and audience. The course builds on a highly interdisciplinary academic approach to modern musicology.
The complex theoretical and practical aspects will be taught in the format of lectures, seminar discussions, library research during a 9-day intensive summer course in Budapest. The course also includes a field trip in Szentendre, and an individual project development program.
The course relies greatly on both CEU lecturers, Bard College and SOAS faculty members, and leading scholars in the field such as Jonathan Stock from University College Cork as well as Martin Stokes from King’s College London.
Exploring heritage management
A major goal of the course is to explore various aspects of musical heritage management. This is done with an emphasis on audience development through focused, yet socially conscious business policies. Further, we aim to present a contemporary and viable approach to responsible arts management. Based on previous course experiences and participants’ feedback, we will explore the practical aspects more in-depth.This way, participants may benefit from understanding industry trends and events through a data-driven approach and social analysis.
As a new topic of the course, we will examine the essential role of music in social engagement and public outreach, too.
Bartók’s heritage today
During this year’s Music as Heritage course, we will discuss Béla Bartók as a musicologist and his influence on modern and even contemporary international musicology. Bartók, universally regarded as an outstanding figure of 20th-century music, is also considered to be a forefather to the discipline of ethnomusicology. He collected and recorded musical folk heritage and simultaneously created a meticulous analytical approach for its analysis, thus laying down the groundwork for modern musicology.
Through case studies chosen from Bartók’s immense heritage, we will gain insight into the heritage creation procedures applied by UNESCO; and we also address the questions of how traditional music contributes to national and/or individual identity creation and how music is used for political purposes.
Field trip
Participants will visit the Skanzen, a Hungarian open-air ethnographic museum in Szentendre.The field trip will provide a unique opportunity to get further insights into both field study and research methods and the real-life experience of traditional music. (Travel and accommodation will be covered for all participants.)
Online course
Last year we successfully adapted our project to an Online Summer Course with an innovative, immersive curriculum, and online teaching methods. If health regulations still won’t allow in-person meetings, participants and lecturers will meet online again. The academic program, duration, and time of the course will remain unchanged. The traditional lecture format will be replaced by shorter sessions, including multimedia presentations, pre-recorded material, and structured, smaller group discussions. The field trip will be substituted by digital field research, an exciting and innovative research methodology that is a must-know for ethnomusicologists of the information era. All this will be implemented on an easy-to-handle, integrated, multifunctional e-learning platform.
Target group
The course topic and structure are aimed at both practicing professionals as well as graduate students and junior researchers active in the field of research and teaching of related subjects (musicology, ethnography, heritage studies in its broadest sense, management, marketing and tourism studies, minority studies, etc.). Advanced undergraduate students will also be considered.
Language requirement
The language of instruction is English, thus all applicants have to demonstrate a strong command of spoken and written English to be able to participate actively in discussions at seminars and workshops. Some of the shortlisted applicants may be contacted for a telephone interview.
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https://summeruniversity.ceu.edu/music-as-heritage-2021/eligibility