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Spring 2013 Music V3462 section 001
MUSIC, GENDER, PERFORMANCE

Call Number 12954
Day & Time
Location
T 4:10pm-5:25pm
814 Dodge Hall
Day & Time
Location
R 4:10pm-5:25pm
620 Dodge Hall
Points 3
Approvals Required None
Instructor Ellen Gray
Type LECTURE
Course Description Prerequisites: There are no prerequisites for this course. This seminar explores relationships between gender, music and performance from the perspective of ethnomusicology, cultural anthropology, critical music studies, feminist and queer theory and performance studies. We examine debates around issues of sex and gender and nature and culture through the lens of musical performance and experience. Some questions we consider include: In what ways is participation in particular music dictated by gendered conventions? What social purpose do these delineations serve? What might music tell us about the body? What is the relationship between performance and the ways in which masculinity and feminity, homosexuality and heterosexuality are shaped? How can we think about the concept of nation via gender and music? How might the gendered performances and the voices of musical celebrities come to represent or officially "speak" for the nation or particular publics? How does music shape our understanding of emotion, our experience of pleasure?
Web Site CourseWorks
Department Music
Enrollment 16 students (25 max) as of 11:25PM Tuesday, June 18, 2013
Final Exam Day/Time May 14
T 4:10pm-7:00pm
Final Location 814 Dodge Hall
Subject Music
Number V3462
Section 001
Division Interschool
Open To Columbia College, Engineering and Applied Science, General Studies, School of Continuing Education, Barnard
Campus Morningside
Section key 20131MUSI3462V001

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