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 2020
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	52671	Lecture-Discussion	A	1:00PM -3:50PM	R	Music Building	Tsekouras, I	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/21/20-05/06/20 Special Approval: Instructor Approval Required Section Title: Sounds of Collective Memory Section Info: "SOUNDS OF COLLECTIVE MEMORY." Collective memory is a broad concept that intertwines with a multitude of narratives about a shared past: academic history, public memory, nostalgia, tradition, postmemory, oral history, affective remembering etc. This seminar concerns the relations narratives of collective remembering to music. The seminar will begin with a review of the most influential theories of collective memory (e.g. by Bergson, Halbwasch, Connerton, Wetlz, Ricquer, etc.), but the main focus will be on related influential ethno/musicological monographs. The objective of the seminar is to offer a comprehensive analysis of how collective memory is studied in ethno/musicological literature and to examine the prospects and usefulness of the concept for music studies. Collective memory for decades has been at the center of a vigorous interdisciplinary discussion, involving perspectives from a multitude of fields: philosophy, history, sociology, folklore, anthropology, social psychology, literature, gender, race, media studies, and of course ethno/musicology. The interest on collective memory relates strongly to the broader interdisciplinary fascination with identity. The shaping and negotiation of an, accepted as shared, past is crucial for the development of a diachronic, and therefore superorganic, sense of selfhood—itself a cornerstone of every group consciousness. For all these reasons, the seminar will concern literature from all the sub-fields of the musicological interdiscipline (e.g. historical musicology, music folklore, ethnomusicology, popular music studies, music performance studies, musical theater etc.). Restriction(s): Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign. Restricted to students in the Music department.