1)Introduction

2)Concepts of minority in law and in social sciences/humanities. Minorities in Central Europe. (Reading: Gleason, Wirth)

3)Ethnomusicology as a "minority" discipline?

4)Key theoretical concepts of minority music research in ethnomusicology (Reading: Turino)

5)Music and migration - Sephardic and Mizrahi Jews in Israel (Reading: Shiloah)

6)Music and identity 1: ZIMU - Kabyle musician in Paris (Reading: Lundberg or Skořepová - ZIMU (in French))

7)Music and identity 2: Ziriab - Arabic music in the Czech Republic (Reading: Skořepová - Ziriab)

8)Selfpresentation strategies of immigrant communities in the Czech Republic 1 (Reading: Skořepová - Acculturation strategies...)

9)Selfpresentation strategies of immigrant communities in the Czech Republic 2

10)Myth of Romani Music in Prague (Reading: Jurková)

11)Viennese Czechs in the 21st century 1 (Reading: Reyes)

12)Viennese Czechs in the 21st century 2

13)Final discussion

Obligatory bibliography:

Reyes, A., Songs of the Caged, Songs of the Free, Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1999.

Jurková, Z. et al., Prague Soundscapes, Praha: Karolinum, 2014.

Recommended bibliography:

Slobin, M., Subcultural Sounds. Micromusics of the West, Hanover, NH: Wesleyan University Press, 2000.

Kaufman Shelemay, K., Let Jasmine Rain Down. Songs and Remembrance among Syrian Jews, London, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1998.

Butler, Kim D. 2001. "Defining Diaspora, Refining a Discourse". Diaspora 10 (2): 189-219.

Gleason, Philip. 1991. "Minorities (Almost) All: The Minority Concept in American Social Thought". American Quarterly 43 (3): 392-424.

Jurková, Z. 2009. "Myth of Romani Music in Prague". Urban People/Lidé města 11 (2): 351-377.

Lundberg, Dan. 2010. "Music as identity marker: individual vs. collective". Migracoes/Music and Migration 7: 29-43.

Martiniello, Marco, Lafleur Jean-Michel. 2008. "Ethnic Minorities’ Cultural and Artistic Practices as Forms of Political Expression: A Review of the Literature and a Theoretical Discussion on Music." Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 34 (8): 1191-1215.

Skořepová Honzlová, Z. 2010. "Ziriab - Arabic Music in the Czech Republic". Urban People/Lidé města 12 (2): 399-417.

Skořepová, Z. 2012. "Acculturation Strategies in Musical Self-Presentations of Immigrants in the Czech Republic". Urban People/Lidé města 14 (2): 369-384.

Skořepová, Z. 2013. "Contemporary Viennese Czechs and the marginalization of their national identity: Representational and Graduation Ball" in Jurková, Z., Stellmacher, M., Skořepová, Z., Kuhnová, K., Seidlová, V. 2013. Tóny z okrajů: Hudba a marginalita/Sounds from the Margins. Praha: Kher.

Turino, Thomas. 2008. Music as Social Life. The Politics of Participation. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press.