WGSS 177
Gender and Sexuality in Music Spring 2017
Division II Exploring Diversity Initiative
Cross-listed MUS 177
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This course explores key themes in the expression of gender and sexuality through music. It draws from primarily 21st century examples, across cultures and genres, ranging from pop boy bands to Indian bhangra dance to the musical avant-garde. Themes will include: communicating gendered ideals, dance and embodiment, transgressive performances, biography and subjectivity, intersectionality, music and sexual violence, and marketing. We will explore the ways in which ideas and identities related to sex and gender are formulated and mobilized in music’s performance and consumption. Inevitably, issues of sound and stagecraft intersect with factors such as race, age, and class further inform these experiences. Students will consider their own processes of identifying and interpreting expressions of gender and sexuality in sound and movement, and contemplate the role of culture and society in informing those interpretations. This course fulfills the EDI requirement, owing both to its comparative approach and its focus on issues of power and privilege.
The Class: Format: lecture/discussion
Limit: 19
Expected: 15
Class#: 3724
Grading: no pass/fail option, yes fifth course option
Requirements/Evaluation: class participation, two 4- to 6-page papers, Midterm paper, a Final paper/project
Extra Info: may not be taken on a pass/fail basis
Prerequisites: none
Enrollment Preferences: students with some musical experience
Distributions: Division II Exploring Diversity Initiative
Notes: meets Division 1 requirement if registration is under MUS; meets Division 2 requirement if registration is under WGSS
This course is cross-listed and the prefixes carry the following divisional credit:
WGSS 177 Division II MUS 177 Division I

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