MUS 523

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Seminar in Musicology

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Credit: 4 hours.

Problems in historical and systematic musicology or ethnomusicology; discussions of special problems and reports on individual research.

May be repeated to a maximum of 8 hours. Prerequisite: Graduate standing in musicology or consent of instructor. Graduate students in music will be considered if they passed MUS 528A (consult Class Schedule for specific section information).

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MUS 523 class schedule data for spring 2017
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	34782	Lecture-Discussion	A	1:00PM -3:50PM	R	0360 Music Building	Praeger, U	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/17/17-05/03/17 Special Approval: Instructor Approval Required Section Title: Mus in MigrationExileDiaspora Section Info: Topic: Music in Migration, Exile, and Diaspora. Based on the understanding that music is a moving and intangible cultural practice that gives voice not only to experiences and behaviors but also to the memories of its practitioners in various places and settings, scholars since the 1990s have repeatedly turned to cultural practices, such as music making, to study the migrant experience in exile and diaspora. In this course, we will explore the interrelations between migration, musical practice, performance, and the building of new belongings. Drawing From ethno/musicology, memory studies, and migration and diaspora studies, we will conceptualize music's relation to place and space and explore specific cases of migration while discussing the significance of musical practice for processes of integration, assimilation, as well as separation--all of which will introduce us to concepts of mobility, cultural transfer and appropriation, musical recollection, and cultural persistence. We will further study music-related aspects of political memory construction and the aestheticizing of loss and violence in, for example, film and popular culture. Based on historical and current examples of how music retrieves and interacts with social, medial, material, and political memory building, this class will further address music's implications for the construction of individual and collective memories in diasporic contexts. We will apply these theoretical perspectives to contemporary practices by studying musical performances and compositions that attempt to retrieve, maintain, or mourn memories of a lost place. The goal is to link the analysis of musical practice to the conceptual and methodological aspects discussed in class, all in hope of garnering a more comprehensive understanding of the inner workings of music, migration, memory, and the construction of belonging in exile and diaspora. Restriction(s): Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign. Restricted to students in the Music department.
	34785	Lecture-Discussion	B	2:00PM -4:50PM	F	325 Gregory Hall	Macklin, C	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/17/17-05/03/17 Section Title: Medieval Medicine and the Arts Section Info: This course explores the ways that connections between the body, medicine, and the visual and performing arts were negotiated in the chronological period coinciding with the European Middle Ages (roughly 400-1500 CE). The root of this study is the humoral theory of the body, which in various forms dominated medical across Europe and the Middle East for millennia and which in both Christian and Islamic contexts interacted with conceptions of the senses to influence artworks of many different media. From there, we will also explore the similarities and differences between the artful medicine or healing art produced within the humoral framework to that produced under other paradigms such as those operating in the same period within India and east Asia.Meets with MDVL 500/523B Restriction(s): Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign. Restricted to students in the Music department.