Humanities Arts Cultural Stu 0233 - Writing About Music

In this course, students will read and try their hand at different types of music writing. We will learn the basics of music journalism. literary non-fiction, and the musical memoir. We will focus on developing and strengthening proposal writing, outlining, setting up an argument, and the process of editing/revision. In addition to learning basic music terminology and concepts to strengthen how we communicate about music, we will also learn about "deep listening" with regards to musical structure, style, and lyrical meaning. There will be regular required reading and listening assignments covering a range of music, including rock/pop, punk/hardcore, western classical, rap, R&B, folk/traditional music, and others. Students will present their writing in class workshops and will complete short written responses to reading and listening assignments as well as three longer writing projects and an end-of-semester oral presentation. Prior knowledge of music or music theory is neither expected nor required. Keywords:music, writing, rock/pop, journalism, memoir

Art and Politics Students should expect to spend 6-8 hours weekly on work and preparation outside of class time