MUSC242

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MUSC242

The Gendering of Music in Cross-Cultural Perspective MUSC242 FA

Crosslistings: WMST240

Fall 96 Availability (Last Updated on Thu Apr 17 05:01:13 EDT 1997 )

Section  Limit  Enrollment  Available
  01       16      0         16

Next Offered in 9899 FA

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.

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS and/or COMMENTS

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: Discussion Lecture

REGISTRATION INFORMATION

Level: UG Credit: 1.00 Gen Ed Area & Dept: HA MUSC

Prerequisites: None

Last Updated on MAR-10-1997

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