Music and Literature

Catalog description

This course explores depictions and inclusion of music in different literary forms over time, such as poetry, drama, fiction, and comics. Course topics can include the connections between poetry, song, and lyric; the presence of music in different kinds of drama; the textual, visual, and performative culture of specific musical traditions (such as opera, punk, hip-hop, and/or metal); ways to appreciate songwriters and performers as both musical and literary artists; and music as a medium for expressing identity and culture, primarily through written and visual texts.