Humanities Arts Cultural Stu 0241 - "Musicking"

Beginning with Christopher Small's book of the same name, "Musicking," this course will consider music as a an action that relates us to the world. In addition to the "musical relations" within music as object or performance, we know, feel, and transform ourselves and the world as "musickers." Moving through and beyond categories of identity, we will consider performers such as Kathleen Hanna, Laurie Anderson, Freddie Mercury (Queen), Parliament-Funkadelic, Sun Ra, and Gang of Four, as well as readings in Feminist, Queer, and Afrological musicology, contemporary philosophical writings on music and emotion, political economies of music, and social change.

Culture, Humanities, and Languages Independent Work Multiple Cultural Perspectives Writing and Research