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.

4 graduate hours. No professional credit. May be repeated to a maximum of 8 hours. Prerequisite: Graduate standing in Musicology; Music and Sound Studies graduate minor; or consent of instructor. Graduate students in music will be considered if they passed MUS 528 A (consult Class Schedule for specific section information).

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MUS 523 class schedule data for spring 2023
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	52671	Lecture-Discussion	A	1:00PM -3:50PM	M	Music Building	Bashford, C	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/17/23-05/03/23 Special Approval: Instructor Approval Required Section Title: Music, Words, Image(s) Section Info: Topic: "MUSIC, WORLDS, IMAGES(S): BRITAIN AND WORLD WAR I." Between 2014 and 2018, the centenary commemoration of World War I brought forth much new scholarship on the role of music, musicians, and sound in World War I. Now, a few years on from that wave of musicology, this class seeks to examine the research and arguments that scholars generated in relation to Britain's role in the conflict of 1914-18, and to consider how these conversations might be usefully extended, including in relation to other wars. Across our weekly seminar meetings, the class will discuss a range of musical genres that British composers wrote in response to the conflict (art song, popular song, choral works, orchestral pieces especially) and relate them to specified readings. Other lines of inquiry will tackle the experiences and activities of performers during wartime. We will also spend time examining source materials from the period (photographs, sheet-music covers, letters and diaries, commercial advertising, critical reviews, etc.) and discuss how they might be interpreted. In so doing, we will aim to develop a nuanced historical view of how responses to the conflict were communicated through music, both on the Home Front and abroad (including across the British Empire)--whether expressed as vehicles for propaganda, as attempts to build national or international cohesion, as a means for expressing personal grief or anger, or as a medium for contributing to public mourning or commentary. The class will require a good amount of student engagement each week and will culminate in an original research or creative project that builds meaningfully on British musical (or music-related) responses to World War I. Restriction(s): Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign. Restricted to students in the Music department.
	34786	Lecture-Discussion	B	1:00PM -3:50PM	R	Music Building	Buchanan, D	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/17/23-05/03/23 Special Approval: Instructor Approval Required Section Title: Sound and the State Section Info: Topic: "SOUND AND THE STATE: MUSIC, SOVEREIGNTY, AND BELONGING IN THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD." How do we come to experience our affinity to nation and state, our sense of citizenship and community belonging, through sound? How is state sovereignty sonically proclaimed, legitimized, refuted, or dissolved? This interdisciplinary graduate seminar considers anthropological, ethnographic, ethnomusicological, and area studies literature theorizing these and other relationships between sound and state in different world regions characterized by contrasting governance structures. Units will target major concepts of statehood and belonging—borders, citizenship, diaspora, displacement, and migration, ethnicity, heritage, Indigeneity and itinerant groups, nations and nationalism, sovereignty, statelessness, and more—as instantiated through sound and expressive culture. Beyond weekly readings and discussions, students will develop a research or creative project pertinent to their interests and the course topic. Graduate students from outside Music who wish to register for this course should contact the instructor for permission Restriction(s): Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign. Restricted to students in the Music department.