THEA 215
Music Theater in World Cultures Spring 2013
Division I Writing Skills Exploring Diversity Initiative
Cross-listed MUS 214 / ANTH 210
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Although the term “music theater” came to prominence in the twentieth-century, expressive forms that synthesize the verbal, plastic, kinesthetic and illusionary arts have existed since antiquity. This is true across cultures worldwide. From Africa to the Americas, Europe, Asia and the Middle East, music, narrative, masquerading, puppetry, costuming, dance and, more recently, electronic media have been integrated in unique ways, giving humankind a crucial apparatus for ritual enactment, religious expression, moral instruction, entertainment and activism. This course surveys a select range of musical-theatrical traditions, including ancient Greek drama, Indian Sanskrit plays, Beijing opera, Japanese Noh theater, Yoruba alarinjo theater, Bollywood and Broadway musicals. We will investigate the role of music theater in society, giving attention to the historical, economic and political contexts that have fostered distinctive genre manifestations. As an EDI course, the overarching aims of the class will be to explore the relationship between ideology and aesthetics, and the role of performance in constructing representations of self and other.
The Class: Format: seminar
Limit: 10
Expected: 10
Class#: 3907
Grading: no pass/fail option, no fifth course option
Requirements/Evaluation: evaluation will be based on class participation, three short sequenced writing assignments which will be peer reviewed and revised, a longer final paper, and a final class presentation
Extra Info: not available for the Gaudino and Pass/Fail options
Prerequisites: none
Enrollment Preferences: sophomores, juniors, or seniors who are current or prospective majors in Music, Theater, Anthropology and Sociology, as well as current and prospective students concentrating in area studies
Distributions: Division I Writing Skills Exploring Diversity Initiative
Notes: meets Division 1 requirement if registration is under MUS or THEA; meets Division 2 requirement if registration is under ANTH
This course is cross-listed and the prefixes carry the following divisional credit:
MUS 214 Division I ANTH 210 Division II THEA 215 Division I
Attributes: MUS Group A Electives

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