Mar 28, 2024  
Course Catalog 2023-2024 
    
Course Catalog 2023-2024
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ETHN 204 - Music and Gender

FC CNDP, DDHU
4 credits
We will use case studies in historical and contemporary contexts from around the world to explore the ways gendered and sexualized identities are encoded within musical practices, repertoires, and performance contexts. Conversely, we will explore how these musical practices gender social realities. The approach is an interdisciplinary one drawing on feminist ethnomusicology, musicology, and anthropology along with gender studies. The topics are broad, ranging from a genre of the West Sumatra highlands to Western art music and American feminist punk. The course gives critical tools to explore the gendering of our own musical worlds through an oral history or ethnographic project.

Prerequisites: ESOL 130 (for students in ESOL sequence).



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