MUS 418

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Regional Studies in Musicology

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Credit: 3 hours.

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

3 undergraduate hours. No graduate credit. May be repeated to a maximum of 12 undergraduate hours if topic varies. Prerequisite: MUS 313 and MUS 314; junior standing; or consent of instructor.

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MUS 418 class schedule data for fall 2021
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	42744	Lecture-Discussion	A	9:30AM -10:50AM	TR	25 Smith Memorial Hall	Magee, J	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/23/21-12/08/21 Section Title: The Blues in American Music Section Info: Topic: "THE BLUES IN AMERICAN MUSIC." Built on the notion that the blues are foundational to understanding music in the United States, the course will range widely across idioms, from the so-called Downhome, Delta, and Vaudeville Blues to jazz, boogie-woogie, R&B, gospel, soul, Tin Pan Alley, Broadway, folk, rock, hip hop, and modern and contemporary classical music. The blues will serve as a wide pedagogical frame that invites broad reflection about transnational Black creativity and influence in U.S. music through listening, reading, and score-study across categories. Students will come to understand musical and lyrical conventions of the blues and how they resonate across idioms; engage with the mix of oral and written, sacred and secular, traditions that shape blues manifestations; and come to grips with how concepts such as appropriation, essentialism, and authenticity have been used in commentary on the blues. Expectations for student engagement may include any or all of the following: discussion-board posts, in-class discussion, short papers, melodic transcription from recordings, short individual and collaborative presentations, songwriting exercises, and short exams. Restriction(s): Not intended for students with Graduate class standing.
	42745	Lecture-Discussion	B	9:30AM -10:50AM	MW	25 Smith Memorial Hall	Takao, M	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/23/21-12/08/21 Section Info: Topic: "HISTORY OF JAPANESE POPULAR MUSIC." From medieval street singers to Babymetal and the revival of City Pop, this course offers an expansive survey of Japanese popular music. In studying the origins of the commercial music industry, we will complicate notions of “the popular” and Japan’s relationship to Western theories, concepts, and aesthetics of musical practice in the 19th and 20th centuries. In taking popular music seriously as a historical object of study, this course provides students with a lens through which to explore broader social, cultural and economic histories of Japan’s “modernization.” Restriction(s): Not intended for students with Graduate class standing.