<p>Lecture, three hours. Designed for ethnomusicology, music history, and world arts and cultures graduate students. Through critical reading of publications by scholars, officials, and culture-bearers involved in intangible cultural heritage policy and practice, examination of history of heritage conservation; concepts of tangible and intangible heritage; pioneering roles of Japan, South Korea, and UNESCO in making intangible cultural heritage focal point of much cultural policy worldwide; tensions among international ideals, nation-state nationalisms, regionalism, ethnicity, and indigeneity in creating intangible cultural heritage policies in different settings; U.S. equivalents to intangible cultural heritage policies and practices in other countries; roles of private individuals, community initiative, and professional organizations in cultural preservation schemes; and related concept of sustainability. Concurrently scheduled with course C155. Letter grading.</p>

Ethnomusicology

The school cultivates models for musical studies that integrate exemplary scholarship and practices, and engage through music with diverse communities on campus, throughout Los Angeles, and beyond.

Herb Alpert School of Music

Ethnomusicology involves the study of all kinds of music from all over the world, using a variety of disciplinary perspectives.

General Catalog

Intangible Cultural Heritage Worldwide

ETHNMUSC255

4 units