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 spring 2024
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	62291	Lecture-Discussion	A	9:30AM -10:50AM	TR	Music Building	Takao, M	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/16/24-05/01/24 Section Title: Japanese Popular Music Section Info: Topic: "HISTORY OF JAPANESE POPULAR MUSIC." From medieval street singers to singing cowboys, Babymetal and the City Pop revival, 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” and the ongoing implications of its imperial shadow in East Asia. Students will also be invited to take part in a retro Japanese roller disco.
	40137	Lecture-Discussion	B	3:00PM -4:20PM	MW	Music Building	Buchanan, D	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/16/24-05/01/24 Section Info: Topic: "MUSIC AND REVOLUTION IN EASTERN EUROPE: UKRAINE, RUSSIA, AND BELARUS." This interdisciplinary course explores the implication of music in politics, nation-building, regime change, conflict, and resistance in twentieth- and twenty-first-century Ukraine, Russia, and Belarus, with particular attention to the Maidan revolutions and current war in Ukraine. Course topics will survey the history, regional distribution, popularization, and contemporary social significance of vernacular musics and arts in diverse media and venues—from the fields to the festival stage to flashmobs to Facebook. Course materials will draw upon recordings, music videos, literary works, and films in addition to anthropological, area, and ethnomusicological studies. Whenever possible, students will engage first hand with representative instruments, vocal practices, and regional specialists. 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. Students from outside Music who wish to register for MUS 418 should contact the instructor for permission. Meets with MUS 518. Restriction(s): Restricted to students in the Music department.