Ethnomusicology as a Profession

Music 512 Seminar                             Spring 2006         1:30-4:00 Th, Music 212  
Class Website: http://faculty.washington.edu/ellingsn/Ethno_Prof.html

Prof. Ter Ellingson                       28D Music                                         543-7211                     ellingsn@u.washington.edu

Week 2 Readings: Publishing as a student

Readings:

Becker, Howard S.

1996                 Writing for Social Scientists. http://gradschool.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site =http%3A%2F%2Fwww.brint.com%2Fpapers%2Fwriting.htm

Reis, Richard

2000                 “Getting Published as a Graduate Student in the Sciences.” Chronicle of Higher Education Friday, November 24, 2000. http://chronicle.com/jobs/2000/11/2000112402c.htm

Non-Readings:

These are not readings in the usual sense of the term, but rather a kind of “Exhibit A” set of examples of my own publications written when I was a Ph.D. student. All are available online at our class website, http://faculty.washington.edu/ellingsn/Ethno_Prof.html. The main purpose for making them available is not to read thoroughly and discuss their contents, but rather for you to look them over to get a general sense of their variety and types of subject matter and journals.

1974a               "Musical Flight in Tibet", Asian Music 5/2: 3-44 (SEM 1971)(music and spirit possession in Tibet and Central and North Asia)

1974b               "Algebraic and Geometric Logic", Philosophy East and West 24/1: 23-40 (Indo Tibetan Mandalas as mathematical-logical frameworks)

1977a               "Review-Essay: Tibetan Buddhist Chant by Walter Kaufmann", Asian Music 8/2: 64-81 (Tibetan musical concepts, forms, and transcription and analysis)

1977b               Errata for "Review-Essay: Tibetan Buddhist Chant by Walter Kaufmann", Asian Music 10/1 (1978): 128  (Tibetan musical concepts, forms, and transcription and analysis)

1979                 Tibet Issue: Asian Music, 10/2 (guest editor; authored, co-authored, and translated the following seven items:)

     1979a      "'Don Rta Dbyangs Gsum: Tibetan Chant and Melodic Categories", Asian Music 10/2: 112-156 (SEM Midwest 1979)(ethnoscientific analysis of Tibetan melodic concepts)

     1979b      "Explanation of the Secret Gcod Damaru", Asian Music 10/2: 63-91 (co-authored with Rinjing Dorje; annotated translation of Tibetan text on drum symbolism)

     1979c      "Dancers in the Marketplace", Asian Music 10/2: 159-178 (review-essay) (review-essay on the political history of dance in Tibet)

     1979d      "Conversations on Tibetan Musical Traditions", Asian Music 10/2: 3-4 (interview with Rakra Tethong)

     1979e      "On Music", Asian Music 10/2: 3-4 (Sa skya Pandita translation)

     1979f       "Why Study Music?", Asian Music 10/2: 157-158 (Sa skya Pandita translation)

     1979g      "Meditative Realization of the Melodious Goddess", Asian Music 10/2: 1-2 (Tsong kha pa translation)

1979h               "The Mathematics of Tibetan Rol mo", Ethnomusicology 23/2: 225-243 (SEM 1977)(transcription and analysis of complex mathematical rhythmic structures in Tibetan orchestral music)

1980                 "Ancient Indian Drum Syllables and Bu ston's Sham pa ta Ritual", Ethnomusicology 24/3 : 431-452 (submitted 1973)

1992                 "Notation", in Grove Handbook of Ethnomusicology. London: Macmillan, pp. 153-164. (SEM 1972) (interpretation of the oldest known Indian instrumental music notation)