Topics in Music Criticism
MUSIC 242R
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Description
Voices & Books: Toward New Histories of Voice and Reading. This course is designed to stage next-generation research on the histories of voice and reading. Working outward from critical approaches developed by Roger Chartier, D. F. McKenzie, Jack Goody, Bruce Smith, Amanda Weidman, and Michel de Certeau and grounded in close study of the material forms in which voices are recorded, distorted, silenced, and conveyed. The seminar’s interpretive toolkit will also draw theories from sociolinguistics, musicology, anthropology, and performance studies. Weekly assignments will be keyed to these readings. Seminar participants will produce a substantive essay treating an original source chosen in consultation with the professor. Global and cross-cultural studies are encouraged, as are perspectives of students specializing in literature, theater, linguistics, and history.
School
Faculty of Arts & Sciences
Credits
4
Cross Reg
Available for Harvard Cross Registration
Department
Music
Course Component
Seminar
General Education
N/A
Quantitative Reasoning with Data
N/A
Divisional Distribution
Arts and Humanities
Course Level
Primarily for Graduate Students
