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Ph.D. Ethnomusicology

Doctor of Philosophy in Ethnomusicology

Gaduate studies in music at the University of Wisconsin-Madison provide students with a supportive environment for pursuing imaginative research. Our degree program is small and flexible, offering rigorous and comprehensive instruction in ethnomusicology and allied disciplines, grounded on a close interaction and cooperation among graduate students and their faculty colleagues. Our commitment to interdisciplinary research encourages students to develop original approaches to music drawing on recent musicological and theoretical initiatives. The curriculum is innovative and wide-ranging, with course offerings emphasizing ethnographic and historical methodologies—music and social practice, music as intellectual history, race and gender, music criticism, audience and reception, and cultural theory and sound studies. Graduate students may also complement their music studies with courses in a wide range of related disciplines that (at the doctoral level) constitute the minor (see below). In all cases, our graduate program seeks both to deepen and widen the domain of musical discourse and to encourage students to follow their own intellectual inclinations and to discover their own musical voices.

At the Ph.D. level, students conduct advanced ethnomusicological research and studies in a related minor area in preparation for dissertation research. Seminars cover a wide range of topics, including cultural theory of music, popular music studies, fieldwork, and the intellectual history of music ethnography. Knowledge of two foreign languages is required (Reading knowledge of German and French, or one European language and one field language).

Degree Requirements
Credits may be carried over from the master's level.

Ethnomusicology seminars and lecture courses (for example 660-915: Seminar in Ethnomusicology; or approved substitutions), 18 cr.
Cultural theory, 6 cr.
Bibliography or research methods (660-619), 3 cr.
Graduate-level Music History or Music Theory (660-500 level or higher), 3 cr.
Minor, 10-12 cr.
Language requirement: two languages at intermediate level
Colloquium (660-900), 0 cr. (required each semester)
Dissertation (660-999)

Course Catalog

Doctoral Minor

The doctoral minor provides breadth and depth to the Ph.D degree. To insure coherence a minor program must be approved by the appropriate department, a student's advisor, or the Director of Graduate Studies, and must include courses only at the 300-level or above. A minor requires 12 credits of work.

Students have a variety of options, including completing an internal minor within the School of Music or, more typically, within a department outside the School of Music (e.g., anthropology, cultural studies, area studies, women's studies,communication arts, history, etc.). Students may, in consultation with the Director of Graduate Studies, devise a distributed minor that brings together courses from a variety of departments around a particular topic or area of interest. (e.g., postcolonial criticism, critical race theory, media studies, etc.)


	Admission Requirements Please submit along with your School of Music Application: Applicants must submit: substantial papers on historical or theoretical subjects for review by the area faculty. scores from the general GRE exam.