This year, we are organizing anethnomusicology summer school on Romani music with the main topic Doing Research on and with Romani Musicians: Methodological and Representational Considerations. . This one-week course will be organized in the framework of the Khamoro Romani Festival (May/June, 2025 - TBA), at the Faculty of Humanities, Charles University, Prague, and is intended for local and international university students. The summer school is set to be organized in-person.
Academic year: 2024/2025
Teaching method: Full-time
Language of instruction: English
Date: May/June, 2025 - TBA
Application deadline: TBA
Course fee: 100 EUR
Charles University students, and Erasmus students at Charles University who wish to attend must enroll in the course in the SIS.
In the morning lectures, students will become acquainted with the main areas in which Roma participated in the creation of distinctive music styles. Moreover, we will discuss methodological and representational considerations, connected with research of and with Romani musicians. These discussions will reveal more general features of minorities’ music(s). Film screenings and workshops will be held in the afternoons. In the evenings, students will attend festival concerts. The course will be led by doc. Zuzana Jurková (FHS UK), with guest lecturer prof. Svanibor Pettan (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia).
Further information is available here.
Svanibor Pettan is professor and chair in ethnomusicology at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, President of the International Council for Traditions of Music and Dance, and Chair of its Study Group on Music and Minorities. His research topics include music on a war-peace continuum, music and minorities, institutional history of ethnomusicology, and applied ethnomusicology. His publications on Romani musicianship in Kosovo are in various formats (books, articles, CD-ROM, picture exhibition, film) and cover the time span of four decades. He recently edited a volume Music and Ethnic Minorities: (Trans)cultural Dynamics in Slovenia After the Year 1991.
See Zuzana Jurková’s biography here.
Guarantor:
Contact person: Mgr. Nikola Skladanova
E-mail:
Credits: 4
Lecturers: doc. Zuzana Jurková with guest lecturer prof. Svanibor Pettan (University of Ljubljana)
The lectures will focus on theoretical issues and selected case studies dedicated to the following concepts and phenomena: affect theory, ethnography of body, dance, gender, and sexuality in EDM culture, ethnography of EDM audiences and music scenes. Moreover, a substantial part of class-work will be dedicated to methodological questions and the practicalities of fieldwork research as related to the ethnographic study of EDM scenes (nightlife ethnography, ethnography of body, dance, gender, and sexuality, autoethnography, sensory ethnography, creative ethnography). For the 2025 edition of this summer school, class content will be enriched with readings from Garcia-Mispireta’s new monograph, Together Somehow: Music, Affect, and Intimacy on the Dancefloor (Duke University Press, 2023), as a case study of ethnographic methods and cultural theory applied to EDM.
Academic year: 2024/2025
Teaching method: Full-time
Language of instruction: English
Date: June 2025 - TBA
Application deadline: TBA
Course fee: 100 EUR
Charles University students, and Erasmus students at Charles University, who wish to attend must enroll in the course in the SIS themselves or write an email to dr. David Verbuc.
The majority of classes for the Theory and Ethnography of Electronic Dance Music Scenes summer school will be taught by Luis Manuel Garcia-Mispireta from the University of Birmingham (specializations in: European and American EDM scenes; queer nightlife ethnography; affect studies), with additional contribution by David Verbuč from the Faculty of Humanities, Charles University in Prague (specialization in American DIY and youth music cultures). The students will engage in class discussions as well as study and explore Prague’s EDM venues, scenes, and communities. They will be required to read one academic text per day, conduct a mini ethnographic research of Prague EDM scenes, and submit a final portfolio of various ethnographic texts. Furthermore, summer school activities will not only include class discussions and methodology workshops, but also interviews with local EDM participants, field trips, and participant-observation at local EDM events (the latter will be attended mostly over one weekend of June 2025 - TBA).
Further information is available here.
Luis Manuel Garcia-Mispireta is an Associate Professor in Ethnomusicology and Popular Music Studies at the University of Birmingham (UK), with previous appointments at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development (Berlin, DE) and the University of Groningen (NL). His research focuses on urban electronic dance music scenes, with a particular focus on affect, intimacy, stranger-sociability, embodiment, sexuality, creative industries and musical migration. He is currently conducting research on “grassroots” activism and queer nightlife collectives in Berlin; he has also a new monograph out, entitled Together Somehow: Music, Affect, and Intimacy on the Dancefloor (Duke University Press, 2023).
See David Verbuč's biography here.
Guarantor:
Contact person: Mgr. Nikola Skladanová
E-mail:
Credits: 4
Lecturers: dr. Luis Manuel Garcia-Mispireta (University of Birmingham), dr. David Verbuč (Faculty of Humanities, Charles University in Prague)
Charles University
Faculty of Humanities
Pátkova 2137/5
182 00 Praha 8 - Libeň
Czech Republic
