MUS 201-01 - Intermediate Music Studies: Music, Gender and Sexuality

4 credits (Spring)

Music has been a cultural forum for producing, reproducing, circulating, and consuming ideologies of gender and sexuality. This course explores how music in Western Europe and the United States has interacted and interconnected with values and issues related to gender and sexual identities. Students will read critical texts investigating interfaces between music, gender, and sexuality from various disciplinary perspectives, listen to numerous musical examples drawn from both classical and popular traditions, engage in lively class discussions, and write a research paper on a topic of their choice. Topics include, but are not necessarily limited to, music and body, castrati, feminine and masculine music, lesbian and gay music, constructions of gender and sexuality in instrumental music, and portrayals of women in opera.

Prerequisite: None.
Instructor: Cha