FOLK-E 251 ETHNOMUSICOLOGY AND THE SOCIAL SCIENCES (3 CR.)
Provides basic theoretical approaches to the study of ethnomusicology, emphasizing its relationship to other social science disciplines such as anthropology, sociology, economics, and political science. May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours.
1 classes found
Fall 2024
| Component | Credits | Class | Status | Time | Day | Facility | Instructor |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LEC | 3 | 12253 | Open | 11:30 a.m.–12:45 p.m. | TR | C2 203 | Dirksen R |
Regular Academic Session / In Person
LEC 12253: Total Seats: 30 / Available: 3 / Waitlisted: 0
Lecture (LEC)
- COLL (CASE) S&H Breadth of Inq
- IUB GenEd S&H credit
- IUB GenEd S&H credit
- COLL (CASE) S&H Breadth of Inquiry credit
Topic: Music & disaster
This course will look into the diverse roles of music in contexts of disaster, broadly defined. After considering examples throughout global history of music created in response to crisis and disaster, ranging from the medieval plague and HIV/AIDS to the Holocaust and Black Lives Matter movement to periods of political turbulence, class conversation will turn to focus on disasters explicitly related to health and the environment. Case studies will include Hurricanes Katrina and Maria, the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, 3/11 Japan, COVID-19, and more. We will use these points of focus to prod several angles of the music + disaster equation. First, music will be positioned as an innate response to trauma, in that song has been used for survival, hope and healing. Next, we will consider music-related humanitarian efforts and current inclinations to capitalize on catastrophe, as evidenced by the phenomenon of benefit concerts, musical telethons and disaster tracks, all used to crowd-source funds for survivors. In addition, we will look at how music has been employed as a tool for re-memorying lost locations and (re)defining cultural spaces, just as it has been used to encourage the return of tourists to impacted locales and boost devastated economies.
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