MUS 418

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Regional Studies in Musicology

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Credit: 3 OR 4 hours.

Seminar devoted to intensive study in the music of specific peoples, states, or geographic regions from around the world.

3 undergraduate hours. 4 graduate hours. May be repeated to a maximum of 12 undergraduate hours or 16 graduate hours. Prerequisite: MUS 313 and MUS 314; junior standing; or consent of instructor.

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MUS 418 class schedule data for fall 2015
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	42744	Lecture-Discussion	A	4:00PM -5:20PM	TR	113 Davenport Hall	Belkind, N	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/24/15-12/09/15 Section Title: Palestine&Israel Through Arts Section Info: TOPIC: Palestine and Israel through the Arts. Palestine-Israel is a place in which an entrenched, protracted conflict shapes the lives of all subjectivities. This course focuses on different genres of expressive culture ? most predominantly music, but also literature, poetry, film, etc. ? and their role in reflecting, critiquing and shaping cultural narratives in and about Palestine/Israel. The basic premise of the course is that the arts are not merely reflective of sociopolitical discourses and positions in or about Palestine/Israel, but a constitutive force in the cultural making of place and nation. Artistic production is an agentive force in the making of political subjectivities and collectivities, a space that offers alternative readings to mainstream discourses, and a player in the Israeli and Palestinian battles for legitimacy taking place on the global stage. The course will begin with a brief historical introduction to Israel/Palestine, to form a contextual basis for our readings, listenings, and viewings, but will focus more closely on contemporary issues, trends and artistic products. The kinds of questions this course asks include: How did the genre Songs of the Land of Israel galvanize collective identity in the early decades of the Jewish State? Why did Palestinian folk music become a revolutionary art form with the rise of the PLO? What is the role of hip-hop in negotiating Palestinian modernity? How is the 'Other' configured in the works of Palestinian and Jewish-Israeli writers and poets? How is the camera positioned as both witness and agent in projects of resistance to military occupation? The connecting thread between all these questions is the important relationship between ethics and aesthetics that informs artistic production in and about Palestine-Israel.