Listening and Sounding Identities

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Practice-based research questions the ontological precedence between scholarship and the arts by asking: what comes first, an artistic contribution or a theoretical framework? Instead of adhering to a hierarchical division, PBR posits that knowledge can be produced both for and from the arts. Thinking alongside various humanist theories, students in this course will be introduced to PBR and form creative reflections on the sonic articulations and implications of identity. Although they are personal, identities are always a part of a wide network of relations. As such, they are subject to various forms of audibility; some result from agency, while others are imposed. Throughout the semester, we will destabilize the line between creative and scholarly work to gain an interdisciplinary understanding of identities and their appearance in the sociocultural sphere.