MUS 105

i've spent this entire semester complaining to my friends that i'm taking a class called "Intro to Ethnomusicology" but I don't even know what ethnomusicology means. i am constantly complaining to them that i don't know why i am taking this class, that it should NOT be a required course, it is a waste of my time, and i am fed up with it. so for this class, instead of a final exam, our professor has assigned us a final essay. and what is the question for the essay? well, there are two parts:

a. do you think ethnomusicology should be part of the music curriculum?
b. please include a brief definition of ethnomusicology in your answer

so what do i do? should i be honest? if i decide to be honest, i might get a very bad grade (and my prof doesn't like me very much as it is). if i try to bluff it, it won't help him become a better teacher in the future, plus it's just wrong. so here's what i did....i sugar-coated it. as it turns out, my skills of being able to write about absolute crap came in handy.

in summary, my answer explained that i spent most of the semester not understanding what ethnomusicology is, but it was at the end of april when we had a special guest speaker that it finally became clear. i said that in retrospect, everything was very important, but it was hard for me to see it at the time because i didn't really understand what ethnomusicology was.

.....yeah basically i wrote a bunch of bull. we'll see how this turns out.