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; MUS 528A (for DMA or MM performance or composition students); or consent of instructor.

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MUS 418 class schedule data for spring 2018
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	40137	Lecture-Discussion	A	9:30AM -10:50AM	TR	0358 Music Building	Tsekouras, I	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/16/18-05/02/18 Section Info: TOPIC: Musical Worlds of the East Mediterranean: East Mediterranean, the sea area between Malta and Lebanon, has always been the site of particularly intense human activity. Whether as a factor of political union under the control of central powers (Romans, Byzantines, Ottomans), or as a theater of political division and war, East Mediterranean has united humans as much as it has divided them. The discovery expeditions, military and looting campaigns, trade journeys, pilgrimages, tourist trips, music tours, and population displacements that have taken place through these waters, define networks of connection and opposition: powerful routes of sameness and otherness. As a result, East Mediterranean hosts a particularly complex cultural mosaic, that entails both small communities that thrive in isolation, like in the pre-1990s Greek island of Karpathos, and centers of inter- and trans-Mediterranean cosmopolitanism like Renaissance Venice, late Ottoman Izmir (Smyrna), and contemporary Tel Aviv. In this class, we will examine the complex east Mediterranean dialectics between the local and the translocal, and between the Same and the Other, in relation to the rich music traditions that thrive on the cities, coasts, islands, and archipelagos of this sea body. The course entails both a historical and an anthropological approach to music. It examines repertoires, styles, and performing practices in relation both to time and space, stasis and movement, through specific case studies presented in relevant musicological and ethnomusicological literature. The main goals of this course are firstly to familiarize the students with the music idioms of East Mediterranean and secondly to introduce them to the musical politics of place. The ultimate objective of the course is for the students to develop their own kaleidoscopic understanding of the musics of East Mediterranean.