Topics in Music Theory
MUSIC 230R
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Description
Analytical Approaches to Musical Interculturality. This graduate seminar explores scholarly debates on musical interculturality from the perspective of music analysis. Focusing primarily on music of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, the course will examine how discourses surrounding identity, power, diaspora, and geopolitics have presented new possibilities for close listening and analysis, and how music theorists have engaged in analysis as a form of political critique. Topics of discussion include listening positionality, coloniality and decoloniality, American modernism, the ethics of musical analysis, translation, the notion of “global music theory.” There are no prerequisites for this course, but previous graduate-level coursework or research in music theory is recommended.
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Enrollment is open to all graduate students and undergraduate students with prior graduate coursework experience.
Available for Harvard Cross Registration
