MUS 418

Fall 2016 Part of Term 1

Part of Term 1
Aug 22-Dec 7

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 2016
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	42744	Lecture-Discussion	A	9:30AM -10:50AM	TR	Music Building	Silvers, M	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/22/16-12/07/16 Section Title: Music of Brazil Section Info: This course will focus on various intellectual debates concerning Brazilian music as a cultural practice, an art form, and a commodity. As such, we will discuss Brazilian music as it relates to nationalism, regionalism, and cosmopolitanism. Students will learn about a range of Brazilian genres, from the samba music of Rio de Janeiro’s carnival parades to the rural laments of the drought-ridden northeast region to contemporary hip hop from São Paulo.
	42745	Lecture-Discussion	B	1:00PM -3:50PM	M	Music Building	Belkind, N	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/22/16-12/07/16 Section Title: Musics of the Caribbean Section Info: TOPIC: Musics of the Caribbean: Roots and Routes This course focuses on musics and cultures of the Caribbean from sonic and theoretical perspectives. Case studies will be presented as outcomes of colonial and post-colonial histories, multiple modalities of dislocation, local and translocal cultural formations and affinities, and the aesthetic power and beauty embedded in cultural forms borne of empire and locality, nation and diaspora. The class will consider the ways in which the “Caribbean” complicates the salience of “area studies” in musicological and anthropological research. We will explore how scholars have come to approach Caribbean cultures as dynamic social processes of creolization, diaspora and globalization, rather than as fixed formations or geographically bounded self-sustaining systems that were the purview of anthropology and ethnomusicology until recent decades. At the same time we will learn to listen to and for musical idioms that ground different musical genres in the cultures of English, Francophone and Spanish Caribbean islands, and in the circulation of people, aesthetics and ideas across diverse diasporic locations. The class will survey recent scholarship on Caribbean musics along with key texts by anthropologists, cultural studies and post-colonial theorists.