Music 253 - MUSIC AND WAR

For centuries, and across different cultures, music has both served war and illustrated its victories and terror. Music has also provided powerful commentary of war, articulating human pain and protest in equal measure. In this class we consider these functions in key works of art and popular music of the 19th and 20th centuries -- a period of nationalism, revolution and two world wars -- as well as our own contemporary experience with the war in Iraq. We discuss music of war; about war; and in the shadow of war. (E)