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  • FOLK 025: Western Science,Magic and Religion 1600 to the present

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    History & Tradition Sector. All classes. Kuklick. Throughout human history, the relationships of science and religion, as well as of science and magic, have been complex and often surprising. This course will cover topics ranging from the links between magic and science in the seventeenth century to contemporary anti-science movements.
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  • FOLK 029: Women and Religion

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Humanities & Social Science Sector. Class of 2010 & beyond. Staff. Introduction to the role of women in major religious traditions, focusing on the relationship between religion and culture. Attention to views of women i sacred texts, and to recent feminist responses.
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  • FOLK 075: Jazz:Style and History

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Distribution Course in Arts & Letters. Class of 2009 & prior only. Ramsey, Parberry. Open to all students. Music 075 401 (Dr. Ramsey): Exploration of the family of musical idioms called jazz. Attention will be given to issues of style, to selected musicians, and to the social, cultural, and scholarly issues raised by its study. Music 075 601 (Professor Parberry): Development of jazz from the beginning of the 20th Century to present. Analysis of the stylistic flux of jazz, such as the progression from dance music to bebop and the emergence of the avant-garde and jazz rock. Attention will be given to both the artists who generated the changes and the cultural conditions that often provided the impetus.
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  • FOLK 082: Ritual In American Life

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Paxton. Freshman Seminar. Starting with birth and working chronologically through a series of case studies, this course invites students to examine the centrality of rituals that celebrate the human lifecycle as well as overtly competitve sporting an political rituals. We will explore rituals that unfold at the local level a well as those that most Americans experience only via the media. Rituals under examination include birthday parties, Bat Mitzvahs, Halloween, Quinceaneras, Proms, graduations, rodeos, Homecomings, weddings, Greek initiations, beauty pageants, reunions, and funerals. Students will be encouraged to critically examine their own ritual beliefs and practices and consider these and other theoretical questions: What is the status of ritual in post-industrial culture What distinguishes popular culture from officia ritual and secular from religious ritual How do sociological variables suc as race, class, gender, sexuality, and religion shape people's understanding of, and participation in, modern family life How do contemporary rituals bond Americans at the local and/or national level All students will be expected to conduct original research on a ritual of their own.
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  • FOLK 101: Introduction to Folklore

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Humanities & Social Science Sector. Class of 2010 & beyond. Ben-Amos. The purpose of the course is to introduce you to the subjects of the disciplineof Folkore, their occurrence in social life and the scholarly analysis of their use in culture. As a discipline folklore explores the manaifestations of expressive forms in both traditional and moderns societies, in small-scale groups where people interace with each face-to-face, and in large-scale, often industrial societies, in which the themes, symbols, and forms that permeate traditional life, occupy new positions, or occur in differenct occasions in in everyday life. For some of you the distinction between low and high culture, or artistic and popular art will be helpful in placing folkore forms in modern societies. For others, these distinction will not be helpful. In traditional societies, and within social groups that define themselvfes ethnically, professionally, or culturally, within modern heterogeneous societies, and traditional societies in the Americas, Africa, Asia, Europe and Australia,folkore plays a more prominent role in society, than it appears to plan in literatie cultures on the same continents. Consequently the study of folklore and the analysis of its forms are appropriate in traditional as well as modern societies and any society that is in a transitional phase.
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  • FOLK 103: Performing History

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Distribution Course in Arts & Letters. Class of 2009 & prior only. St. George. From medieval processions to the Mummer's Parade, from military reenactments to Mardi Gras, communities do more than "write" or "read" history in order to feel its power and shape their futures. Drawing upon traditions in theater, spectacle, religion, and marketing, they also perform their history--by replaying particular characters, restaging pivotal events and sometimes even changing their outcomes--in order to test its relevance to contemporary life and to both mark and contest ritual points in the annual cycle. This course will explore diverse ways of "performing history" in different cultures, including royal passages, civic parades, historical reenactments, community festivals, and film.
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  • FOLK 106: Studies in African-American Music

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Ramsey. This course explores aspects of the origins, style development, aesthetic philosophies, historiography, and contemporary conventions of African-American musical traditions. Beginning with the African legacy, we situate the conceptual approaches of African American music within the larger African Diaspora. The course provides a foundation for the advanced study of the various strains of black musics to appear in the United States. Covering the 19th and 20th centuries, we explore the socio-political contexts and cultural imperatives of black music from a multidisciplinary perspective (musicology, ethnomusicology, linguistics, African-American literary criticism, cultural studies, history, anthropology). The range of genres, styles, idioms, and time periods include: the music of West and Central Africa, the music of colonial America, 19th century church and dance music, minstrelsy, music of the Harlem Renaissance, jazz, blues, gospel, hip-hop, and film music. Special attention is given to the ways in which black music generates "meaning" and to how the social energy circulating within black music articulates myriad issues about American identity at specific historical moments.
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  • FOLK 137: Sociology of Media and Popular Culture

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Society Sector. All classes. Grazian. Also fulfills General Requirement in Arts & Letters for Class of 2009 and prior. This course relies on a variety of sociological approaches to media and popular, with a particular emphasis on the importance of the organization of the culture industries, the relationship between cultural consumption and status, and the social significance of leisure activities from sports to shopping. Specific course topics include the branding of Disney, Nike and Starbucks; the glovalization of popular culture; the blurring of entertainment and politics; and the rise of new media technologies in the digital age.
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  • FOLK 158: Musics of Latin America, the Caribbean, and Hispanics in the U

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Rommen. This survey course considers Latin American musics within a broad cultural and historical framework. Latin American musical practices are explored by illustrating the many ways that aesthetics, ritual, communication, religion, and social structure are embodied in and contested through performance. These initial inquiries open onto an investigation of a range of theoretical concepts that become particularly pertinent in Latin American contexts_K-concepts such as post-colonialism, migration, ethnicity, and globalization. Throughout the course, we will listen to many different styles and repertories of music and then work to understand them not only in relation to the readings that frame our discussions but also in relation to our own, North American contexts of music consumption and production.
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  • FOLK 200: Greek and Roman Mythology

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Arts & Letters Sector. All Classes. Struck. Myths are traditional stories that have endured many years. Some of them have to do with events of great importance, such as the founding of a nation. Others tell the stories of great heroes and heroines and their exploits and courage in the face of adversity. Still others are simple tales about otherwise unremarkable people who get into trouble or do some great deed. What are we to make of all these tales, and why do people seem to like to hear them This course will focus on the myths of ancient Greece and Rome, as well as a few contemporary American ones, as a way of exploring the nature of myth and the function it plays for individuals, societies, and nations. We will also pay some attention to the way the Greeks and Romans themselves understood their own myths. Are myths subtle codes that contain some universal truth Are they a window on the deep recesses of a particular culture Are they entertaining stories that people like to tell over and over Are they a set of blinders that all of us wear, though we do not realize it Investigate these questions through a variety of topics creation of the universe between gods and mortals, religion and family, sex,love, madness, and death.
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