Having just finished a bibliography for a term paper for the I.N.P.O.D.'s class, I'm feeling vaguely naughty. The class is designed primarily for a general music audience, who have probably not gone through Ethnobibliography. So the I.N.P.O.D. has put together a checklist of bibliography and database sources that we have to go through and check off when putting our term paper bibliography together. It's geographically designed -- look for the New Grove article on "your country," look in area bibliographies, check out the Garland Encyclopedia of World Music by country, that sort of thing. Problem is, I'm doing my paper on a particular Jewish community. Jews, being a transnational group (like the Romany), don't show up in geographically oriented sources. You don't look up Jews by country -- an book on Indian music probably won't mention the Jews of India. On the other hand, if you bypass the area bibliographies and go straight to the Jewish bibliographies, you find not only the Jews of India, but the specific Jewish community in India that this term paper will cover. So I have over thirty sources in my bibliography and a lot of big fat goose eggs on my checklist. One day, I will wean the I.N.P.O.D. of this geography kick she's on.
In the meantime, we're learning about the music of south central Uganda today. We have this handout that gives basic information:
Country: Uganda
Ethnic Group: Baganda (Muganda, singular)
Language: Luganda
Place: Buganda
Very important information, says the I.N.P.O.D. Tells you something about the culture and the language structure, specifically that prefixes are important. This is all true. But I will be very naughty and admit that it also makes me giggle.
In the meantime, we're learning about the music of south central Uganda today. We have this handout that gives basic information:
Country: Uganda
Ethnic Group: Baganda (Muganda, singular)
Language: Luganda
Place: Buganda
Very important information, says the I.N.P.O.D. Tells you something about the culture and the language structure, specifically that prefixes are important. This is all true. But I will be very naughty and admit that it also makes me giggle.
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But, yes, the exacting-ness can be irritating at times.
With information national and regional all sadly missed
Instead you bypass Grove and quote the Jewish bibliographies
With thirty thorough sources mad professors you can surely tease
You're very well acquainted with the value of the prefixes
Uganda and Buganda and Luganda and their suffixes
'Bout culture and the language you are teeming with a lot o' news
With many cheerful facts about the music of the Jews.
With many cheerful facts about the music of the Jews
With many cheerful facts about the music of the Jews
With many cheerful facts about the music of the Jews
Apologies to all and sundry.
Hey, did you get to see the eclipse today? It was too cloudy here :-/
(The talent is attributable to WS Gilbert - Pinafore, isn't it? Or the Pirates of Penzance? And ever since I pressed post I've been thinking how bad it is! And how some lines are missing syllables - but that what you get when acting on impulse!)
And just asked to confirm I'm human. Am I? I'm not sure!
So, Dot (in Ireland, right?), tell us what we missed.
Oops, sorry - just saw your comment!
I didn't get to see the eclipse because it was too cloudy... :-/ Well, I was at work anyway so could have only popped out for a look but there were a lot of disappointed people in the Phoenix Park in Dublin where they'd all gathered to see it. Cloud covered the entire country that day!! I think it was too overcast in Britain as well. All the pictures of it on the front of our newspapers were taken in Spain. It looked spectacular. Oh well, maybe in 2090 if I start taking the anti-aging pills now ;-)
I love your icon, by the way. Very Halloween-y :-)
Thanks! I picked the icon for its Halloweeny quality--and because I love cats.
I’m so glad she’s turning out to be a good thesis advisor!
…specifically that prefixes are important. LOL!! She’s paid a lot of money for insightful remarks like that, y’know :-D
Actually, this bibliography was kind of a doddle for me. Here I was, looking at the same damn sources to make the same damn bibliography in the same damn format for the same damn professor. It was like I was back in second semester last year, in some weird time warp. Only the pressure was much less, because this one a) didn't have to be annotated, and b) you didn't have to produce the books in class right away.
Perhaps if you reverse engineered it to get the check marks? (Go to the very specific geographic locations listed in the other sources with jewish history, and see if you can't link back to it from there with the source she's insisting you use?)
-Dira-