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Collegium
Musicum - G71.1002
Monday & Wednesday 6:00 - 8:00
Instructors: Stanley Boorman and Margaret Panofsky
Performance
ensemble concentrating on the music of the Middle Ages through the high
baroque and on neglected works or genres from other periods.
Techniques of
Music Composition - G71.2162
Tuesday 10:30 - 12:30 (Waverly 268)
Instructor: Louis Karchin
Individual
meetings to review creative work will alternate with group critiques,
collaborative projects, and discussion of repertoire--oriented toward
particular technical, aesthetic, and theoretical issues.
Musical
Ethnography - G71.2166
Monday 1:00 - 3:00 (Silver 318)
Instructor: Martin
Daughtry
Emphasizing the
urban field site, this course provides pragmatic instruction in field
and laboratory research and analytical methods in ethnomusicology.
Topics include research design, fieldwork, participant observation,
field notes, interviews and oral histories, survey instruments, textual
analysis, audiovisual methods, archiving, urban ethnomusicology,
applied ethnomusicology, performance as methodology and epistemology,
and the ethics and politics of cultural representation. Students
conceive, design, and carry out a limited research project over the
course of the semester.
Special
Studies - War, Music, Oppression and Exile 1930-1950
- G71.2198.001
Monday 9:00 - 11:00 (Location TBA)
Instructor: Michael Beckerman
Topics include an overview of historical
issues; gender and music in the war; questions of deconstruction,
denial and convergence of evidence in historical studies; secrecy and
"middles in the musical life of Terezin; effects of oppression and
trauma on musical form; the politics of "Holocaust" memorialization;
the sociology of music in concentration camps run by the Germans,
Russians, Japanese and Americans; and ideologies of exile.
Students are encouraged, though not required, at attend conference on
"Music, Oppression and Exile: The Impact of Nazism on Musical
Development in the 20th Century" held in London April 8-11. Some
subsidy will be provided for travel and lodging.
"Breakfast" Seminar
Class will be held at Professor Beckerman's home near campus
Special
Studies - Musicology - G71.2198.002
Wednesday 3:00 - 5:00 (Waverly 268)
Instructor: Suzanne Cusick
Please
contact instructor for course details
Special Studies: Cosmopolitanisms
(Universals & Utopias Besides) -
G71.2199.001
Thursday
10:00 - 12:00 (Waverly 268)
Instructor:
Jairo Moreno
The seminar
will study cosmopolitanisms and cosmopolitanization in their historical
and
geo-political trajectory; their economic, political, and social
dimensions
today; and their theoretical representations and cultural
self-representations. We will focus on: a)
cosmopolitanization
as a modality of contemporary re-articulations of the political b) the
dialectics of localization of engagement with the worldly, the global,
and the
planetary c) the effects of these dialectics on the consecution,
maintenance, and struggle
against, for, and despite knowledge-systems.
Genealogical
analysis of early formations will give way to study of multiple
modalities they
adopt today, ethically, socially, and politically, as debated by late
C. 20 and
early C. 21 social science scholars (political philosophy and science,
sociology, anthropology). We conclude
with a series of in-depth analyses of the musical: regional
cosmopolitanisms;
an ethnography of cosmopolitan nationalism; cosmopolitanization of
sonic production
and performance. Throughout, the seminar
will attend to the limitations both of cosmopolitanisms to understand
contemporary
sonic economies and of music’s (its producers’ and makers’,
distributors’, and
consumers’) much-vaunted agencies across various cosmopolitical
scales.
Much of this will mean applying critical
pressure on culture as the dominant analytics of ‘the musical’.
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Special Studies - Performing Brazil:
Sonic and Kinesthetic Politics - G71.2199.002
Tuesday 9:30 - 12:15 (721 Broadway, Room 613)
Instructors: Jason Stanyek and Barbara Browning
This interdisciplinary course will offer a series of interlocking
perspectives on the performative politics of Brazilian sonic and
kinesthetic cultures. Using critical readings on Brazilian
social, political and cultural history we will engage with some of the
key concepts and topics that concern scholars working in the humanities
and social sciences: race, cultural politics, citizenship, violence,
tourism, embodiment, gender, sexuality, place, globalization,
translation, political economy, power, voice, diaspora, memory, and
improvisation. At the center of the course is a heightened
attentiveness to the overlapping relationships between sound and
movement, the aural and the kinesthetic, music and dance. One of
our principal aims will be to consider how various forms of identity
(racial, gender, class, religious) are constructed and negotiated
within disparate contexts of music and dance performance (in religious
ceremonies, at informal gatherings, in the mass media, in carnival, on
stages and in concert halls, in recording studios, within cultural
institutions, etc.). We will also examine how the contours of
racial (and gender and class) politics in Brazilian society shifted
over the course of the twentieth century and how Brazilian social
history has made a rather complex braid with broader international and
transnational geographies.
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