MUS 523

Spring 2022 Part of Term 1

Part of Term 1
Jan 18-May 4

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 2022
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	52671	Lecture-Discussion	A	1:00PM -3:50PM	R	Music Building	Magee, J	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/18/22-05/04/22 Special Approval: Instructor Approval Required Section Title: 1959 Section Info: TOPIC: "1959." How do we recapture the sound and look of life in a single year, and what can we learn from that? Using an approach known as synchronic history—the study of more-or-less simultaneous occurrences around a single moment—the course will be a wide-ranging seminar-style exploration of musical repertoire across diverse idioms (extending to the entire sonic landscape) with emphasis on developments in the United States in and around the year 1959. A broad introduction will be followed by a series of weekly case studies in which representative compositions, recordings, sounds, events, and people help to bring key issues into focus. Weekly engagement will be expected: students will bring examples to class and we’ll discuss them as we build a richer context for understanding the period. Students will collaborate on a timeline of musical and historical landmarks of the period. The course culminates in the completion and presentation of an original research or creative project that intersects meaningfully with the year 1959. Restriction(s): Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign. Restricted to students in the Music department.
	34786	Lecture-Discussion	B	1:00PM -3:50PM	W	Music Building	Takao, M	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/18/22-05/04/22 Special Approval: Instructor Approval Required Section Title: Global Music History Section Info: TOPIC: "Introduction to Global Music History." Developing in line with intersecting calls for relational and decolonial methodologies in musicology, the so-called “global turn” has been seized as an opportunity to address the structurally embedded centrisms that favor the Anglo West and to equalize global perspectives in the study of all musics and their histories. At the heart of these considerations of the geopolitics of knowledge is the emergent, if not contended, field of “global music history.” In this seminar we will explore the analytical terrain this burgeoning field shares with several approaches to the historical study of the world’s musics, some of which have a longer scholarly heritage and have developed in distinct ways. In doing so, we will engage in discussion that bridges the theories and methods of social and cultural history, musicology, and the broader concerns of global historiography. Restriction(s): Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign. Restricted to students in the Music department.