Music: Histories and Historiography 1

Catalog description

This course introduces students to readings and lectures on current topics in the fields of music studies and musicology with a focus on historiography, which is the study of the way history has been written. Within this broad framework, the course will engage with the study of music and its history under a number of different guises, including the historical study of music, addressing both research methodologies as well as the historical narratives used to tell the different "stories" about music history. While the course is organized thematically - providing an examination of music at its intersection with issues related to gender and sexuality, social justice and conflict, race, popular music, as well as media and technology - it is structured historically, providing a forum for an examination of music and musical practices across a wide range of historical and cultural situations from ancient times to the present. Engaging with diverse readings, this course provides a broad critical framework for the exploration of the field of music studies as a discipline that integrates the central concerns of different approaches to musicological and historical research.