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3.00 Credits
Analysis of techniques in works from the past and explorations into the deeper understanding of orchestrational princples that our current knowledge of acoustics and our techniques of sonic analysis offer. Combines empirical and theoretical knowledge in an effort both to understand the masterworks of the past and to provide a framework of each composer's future personal explorations. - F. Levy Prerequisites: the instructor's permission. Not offered in 2009-2010. 3 points
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Analysis of western popular music including pop, rock, soul, electronic dance music, and hip hop through recent approaches. Topics will include the applicability of analytical techniques designed for western art music, the role of notation, relationship of text and context, and the roles of popular music in identity formation. Not offered in 2009-2010. 3 points
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An interdisciplinary exploration of hip-hop music and culture, including MCing, DJing, breakdancing, and graffiti, from its beginnings to the present through historical, analytical, and critical perspectives. The courses's primary focus will be on listening and on sound; readings will help to situate particular pieces of music, artists, and genres within their cultural, political, and social contexts. - E. Hisama Prerequisites: W1123, Masterpieces of Western Music Not offered in 2009-2010. 3 points
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3.00 Credits
An introduction to the field of ethnomusicology in the context of the intellectual history of music scholarship. - L. Ellen Gray Prerequisites: HUMA W1123 or the equivalent. General Education Requirement: Social Analysis (SOC). General Education Requirement: The Visual and Performing Arts (ART). 3 points
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3.00 Credits
This course studies the relationship between music and nationalism, from both aesthetic and political perspectives. The broad historical emergence and development of modern nationalism and related themes of race, gender, globalization, and indigneity, are explored through musical case studies focusing on western and non-western, elite, popular, and folk styles and genres. Reading knowledge of music is not required. General Education Requirement: Social Analysis (SOC). Not offered in 2009-2010. 3 points
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An introduction to contemporary work on music and place from an ethnomusicological perspective. It situates ethnomusicological work and specific musical case studies within an interdisciplinary theoretical framework that draws from the fields of cultural anthropology, cultural studies, and performance studies. - E. Gray General Education Requirement: The Visual and Performing Arts (ART). Not offered in 2009-2010. 3 points
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This course is about the relationship between popular music and literature in Latin America. It covers such topics as the relationship between the lettered city and popular culture as well as orality and the written word. In the course we will read novels and poetry by authors who have also been composers and/or musicologists and explore the production of composers who have also been recognized as important literary figures. - A. Ochoa 3 points
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3.00 Credits
This course will examine the role of music in the lives of survivors of traumatic experiences and discover why music is a special expressive resource for such people. Examples from survivors' music about the nature of traumatic events that other expressive and documentary resources do not yield will be utilized. Course is interdisciplinary and the use of these examples to explore these issues is from a social, cultural, psychological and musicological perspective. Geared towards advanced undergraduates and graduate students from all disciplines. - J. Pilzer
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This course analyzes changes in music traditions in the post-socialist context since the fall of the Soviet Union. The focus is on the relationship between music and politics, socialist/post-socialist cultural policy, the rise of popular music genres, new conceptualizations of "folk" music, and the influence of technologies, media, and privatization on music. Not offered in 2009-2010. 3 points
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3.00 Credits
This seminar explores relationships between gender, music and performance from the perspective of ethnomusicology, cultural anthropology, critical music studies, feminist and queer theory and performance studies. We examine debates around issues of sex and gender and nature and culture through the lens of musical performance and experience. Some questions we consider include: In what ways is participation in particular music dictated by gendered conventions What social purpose do these delineations serve What might music tell us about the body What is the relationship between performance and the ways in which masculinity and feminity, homosexuality and heterosexuality are shaped How can we think about the concept of nation via gender and music How might the gendered performances and the voices of musical celebrities come to represent or officially "speak" for the nation or particular publics How does music shape our understanding of emotion, our experience of pleasure - E. Gray Prerequisites: There are no prerequisites for this course. 3 points
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