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Academic Year 2002/2003
The Gendering of Music in Cross-Cultural Perspective
MUSC 291 FA
This course presents a critical examination of issues explored and debated in recent studies of gender, power, identity, and music from diversified music traditions, including the Western art music, popular music, and
the
world musics. Drawing upon the interdisciplinary discourse on theories of feminism and gender, as well as the new gay and lesbian musicology, through case studies and analysis of various musical examples, we will
investigate
the following topics: women's multiple roles in the historical and contemporary practices of music; desire, sexuality, and women's images in music; and how gender ideology, contextualized by sociocultural conditions,
both
constructs and is constructed by musical aesthetics, performance practice, creative processes, as well as the reception of music.
MAJOR READINGS
Susan Cook, CECILIA RECLAIMED: FEMINIST PERSPECTIVES ON GENDER AND MUSIC Ruth Solie, MUSICOLOGY AND DIFFERENCE: GENDER AND SEXUALITY IN MUSIC SCHOLARSHIP Philip Brett, QUEERING THE PITCH: THE NEW GAY AND LESBIAN
MUSCIOLOGY Carol Neuls-Bates, WOMEN
IN MUSIC: AN ANTHOLOGY OF SOURCE READINGS FROM THE MIDDLE AGES TO THE PRESENT Jane Bowers, WOMEN MAKING MUSIC: THE WESTERN ART TRADITION, 1150-1950 Susan McClary, FEMININE ENDINGS: MUSIC, GENDER, AND SEXUALITY.
Catherine Clement, OPERA, OR THE
UNDOING OF WOMEN Ellen Koskoff, WOMEN AND MUSIC IN CROSS-CULTURAL PERSPECTIVE Judith Vander, SONGPRINTS: THE MUSICAL EXPERIENCE OF FIVE SHOSHONE WOMEN Sue Steward, SIGNED, SEALED AND DELIVERED: TRUE LIFE STORIES OF
WOMEN IN POP MUSIC Robert Walser
, RUNNING WITH THE DEVIL: POWER, GENDER, AND MADNESS IN HEAVY METAL MUSIC
EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS
Bi-weekly short essays (3 pages) on assigned reading or listening. One final research paper.
Unless preregistered students attend the first class meeting or communicate directly with the instructor prior to the first class, they will be dropped from the class list. NOTE: Students must still submit a completed
Drop/Add form to the Registrar's
Office.
COURSE FORMAT:
Lecture
REGISTRATION INFORMATION
Level:
UGRD
Credit:
1
Gen Ed Area Dept:
HA MUSC
Grading Mode:
Graded
Prerequisites:
NONE
SECTION 01
- Instructor(s): Zheng,Su
- Times: .M.W... 11:00AM-12:20PM; Location: MST301
- Reserved Seats: (Total Limit: UNL)
- SR. major: Jr. major:
- SR. non-major: Jr. non-major: SO: FR:
Special Attributes:
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Last Updated on MAR-18-2003
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