Gender, Sexuality, and Music in Pre-Contact Indigenous Societies and Afro-Latinx Countries. (3-0) 3 Credit Hours

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This course explores the interconnected roles of gender, sexuality, music, and society in pre-contact Indigenous Societies and Afro-Latinx countries. Through an interdisciplinary approach, students examine iconographic and archaeological studies and oral histories to understand how music functioned as both a sonic and physical space where gender and sexuality existed outside Western binaries. Topics include gender roles, the role of music in social and spiritual life, the erasure of Indigenous knowledge systems, the imposition of patriarchal structures, and contemporary decolonization movements that reclaim music as a form of cultural resistance, identity preservation, and resilience. (Same as WGSS 3123 . Credit cannot be earned for both WGSS 3123 and MAS 3133 .).