MUS 518

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Regional Studies in Musicology

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Credit: 4 hours.

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

4 graduate hours. No professional credit. May be repeated to a maximum of 16 graduate hours. Prerequisite: MUS 528 A (for DMA or MM performance or composition students); graduate standing in Musicology; Music and Sound Studies graduate minor; or consent of instructor.

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MUS 518 class schedule data for spring 2023
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	73053	Lecture-Discussion	A	9:30AM -10:50AM	TR	Music Building	Buchanan, D	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/17/23-05/03/23 Section Title: Balkan Beats Section Info: Topic: "BALKAN BEATS: BALKAN POPULR MUSIC, 1970s-PRESENT." This interdisciplinary course explores relationships between popular music, society, gender, and politics across the Balkan peninsula from the 1970s to the present. As time permits, course topics will include state-sanctioned socialist pop genres; Eurovision and other festivals; Bulgarian wedding music, pop-folk (chalga), and EDM; Yugoslav “newly-composed folk music,” turbo-folk, and the Yugoslav wars of secession; Bosnian sevdalinke and hip-hop; Romanian manele; Slovenian rock; Turkish arabesk; Greek rebetika and laika; and more. Course materials will draw upon recordings, music videos, and films in addition to anthropological, area, and ethnomusicological studies. While the ability to hear, identify, and understand the significance of regional genres and their distinguishing features is a primary course objective, students from both within and outside the School of Music are encouraged to enroll; instructor expectations will be modified accordingly. Graduate students from outside Music who wish to register for MUS 518 should contact the instructor for permission. Restriction(s): Restricted to students in the Music department. Restricted to students with Graduate class standing.
	74903	Lecture-Discussion	B	11:00AM -12:20PM	MW	Music Building	Smith, J	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/17/23-05/03/23 Section Title: Disrupting Dixie Section Info: Topic: "DISRUPTING DIXIE: MUSIC AND THE AMERICAN SOUTH." What images come to mind when you think of the "American South?" What sounds are in your mind's ear? Do you hear banjos and Dolly Parton or Lil Nas X and gospel hymns? This course interrogates the American South as knowledge by critiquing long-held assumptions of place and complicating frequently essentialized notions of southern culture. Although we'll discuss southern-based musical genres and forms such as country, spirituals, blues, and bluegrass, we will reorient narratives of place by addressing integral aspects of race, class, gender and sexual identities. This course is open to a wide range of students, whether interested in popular or art musics, and asks them to think critically about their own assumptions based on place.