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Crosslistings: EAST 301 |
This course presents a critical examination of issues in recent sociocultural theory on Orientalism and Primitivism in the Western imagination, and will investigate the application of these perspectives to the analysis of music. Interdisciplinary readings will be drawn from the fields of art and museum display, tourism theory, anthropology and sociology, as well as musicology and ethnomusicology. Images of the East, the Oriental, the Primitive, the Savage, and the Tropical Native will be closely studied to determine how they are musically constructed, composed, symbolized and perpetuated. The unabated persistence of exotic musical imagery will be contextualized within larger aesthetic processes of creating heritage, authenticity, postcolonial nostalgia, and travel fantasy through the musical and bodily display of the exotic performing Other. Case studies will include historical and contemporary examples from opera, instrumental Western Art music, World Fairs, Vaudeville, early jazz, Hollywood, Pop, Worldbeat, and global tourism.
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: Seminar
Level: UGRD Credit: 1 Gen Ed Area Dept: HA MUSC Grading Mode: Graded
Prerequisites: NONE
Last Updated on MAR-18-2003
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