FOLK-E 250 ETHNOMUSICOLOGY AND THE HUMANITIES (3 CR.)
Provides basic theoretical approaches to the study of ethnomusicology, emphasizing its relationship to other humanistic disciplines such as cultural, literary, and religious studies, history and philosophy.
1 classes found
Fall 2024
| Component | Credits | Class | Status | Time | Day | Facility | Instructor |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LEC | 3 | 31320 | Closed | 9:45 a.m.–11:00 a.m. | TR | C2 203 | Jack M |
Regular Academic Session / In Person
LEC 31320: Total Seats: 34 / Available: 0 / Waitlisted: 0
Lecture (LEC)
- COLL (CASE) A&H Breadth of Inq
- IUB GenEd A&H credit
- IUB GenEd A&H credit
- COLL (CASE) A&H Breadth of Inquiry credit
Topic: Soundscapes of democracy
This course explores sound and performance as mediums of political participation, deliberation, and social commentary in the public sphere. In a society where understandings of political participation are often confined to voting, this course aims to broaden these horizons and in so doing explores varied forms of cultural expression which articulate contemporary forms of citizenship and political praxis. Through lectures, course reading and discussion, students will investigate how cultural groups and political movements practice, articulate, and contest popular understandings of democracy. Exploring case studies and concepts ranging from political campaigns, social movements, direct action, DIY subculture, and populism, the crowd becomes a becomes a throughline that we will visit and return to throughout the semester. To what degree do crowds function as a tool for structural change within the democratic process, and how do sound and performance play a role in making and unmaking democracy? Through such contestations and commentaries on the varied definitions of democracy, this course also investigates how the media and government perceive and respond to performative means of political practice and social commentary in the public sphere.
The College of Arts