Gender, Sexuality, and Music in Pre-Contact Indigenous Societies and Afro-Latine 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-Latine 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 MAS 3133 . Credit cannot be earned for both MAS 3133 and WGSS 3123 .). Course Fee: LRH1 $20.54; STSH $30.81.