| Course ID: | MUSI 3021. 3 hours. |
| Course Title: | World Music, the West, and the East |
Course
Description: | Interrogates the East-West divide in music and allied fields. Drawing on anthropological, ethnomusicological, feminist, and postcolonial forms of analysis, participants will explore practices of representation and the structures, forms, instruments, performance practices, contexts, and aestheticization of the East-West binary in social, cultural, and political systems. |
| Oasis Title: | World Music the West and East |
Semester Course
Offered: | Offered spring semester every year. |
| Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
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| Course Objectives: | -To introduce basic skills to listen, watch, and analyze performance practices
-To identify and think critically about how music and musicians and other performance artists use aesthetic principles to express social and cultural meaning and belonging
-To discuss the relationship between performance cultures and other organizing social units such as gender, race, ritual, religion, geography, history, economics, political, and social systems
-To write effectively about music, musicians, and performance |
| Topical Outline: | 1. Introduction to postcolonial/critical race/feminist theory and methods
2. Performance analysis — sonic frames
3. Performance analysis — visual frames
4. Performance analysis — embodied/somatic frames
5. Disciplinary histories —musicology
6. Disciplinary histories — folklore
7. Disciplinary histories — ethnomusicology/performance studies
8. (Post)Colonialism and cartography — East of East
9. (Post)Colonialism and cartography — West of West
10. Orientalism and European cultures
11. Orientalism and North American cultures
12. Afro-Orientalism — Missy Elliot
13. Afro-Orientalism — Cardi B
14. Asian-American Orientalism —Rajakumari |
| Honor Code Reference: | The University Honor code and Honesty policy should be adhered to. |