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 2024
CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
73053	Lecture-Discussion	A	1:00PM -3:50PM	F	Music Building	Silvers, M	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/16/24-05/01/24 Section Title: Local Musicking in a Brazilian Section Info: Topic: "LOCAL MUSICKING IN A BRAZILIAN SETTING." In this course we will be exploring the concept of “local musicking” through various different ethnographic examples in Brazil, ranging from samba, bumba-meu-boi, congados and folias de reis, to brass, bands, música sertaneja, funk, electronic music and other styles. The study of local musicking involves the investigation of the relationship between musical activities and the localities in which they occur. In particular, it focuses on how musicking might be implicated in the “production of locality” (Appadurai). As we turn to Brazilian case studies, we will also explore some of Brazil’s contemporary thinkers, such as Leda Maria Martins, Conceição Evaristo, José Jorge de Carvalho, Ailton Krenak as well as studies by Brazilian ethnomusicologists and music scholars. Alongside readings, the course resources will include ethnographic films, sound recordings, websites, and youtube links as well as practical musicking experiences. Restriction(s): Restricted to students with Graduate class standing.
74903	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 Title: Music and Revolution Section Info: Topic: "MUSIC AND REVOLUTION: RUSSIA, UKRAINE, BELARUS." This interdisciplinary course explores the implication of music and sound 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. Graduate students from outside Music who wish to register for MUS 518 should contact the instructor for permission.
76006	Lecture-Discussion	C	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.