MUSIC 7325
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Classes
MUSIC 7325
Course Description
Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2017-2018.
Johann Nikolaus Forkel's 1802 biography of Johann Sebastian Bach not only helped cement the idea of the composer from Eisenach as a musical "genius" but also, arguably, signaled the birth of musikwissenschaft (musicology) as an authoritative scholarly field. From the discipline's inception through the 1990s, biographical studies thrived through the most important epistemological transformations of musicology as a field of studies. However, at a moment when critical music research moves away from celebrating "great men," reproducing Eurocentric teleology, and embracing grand historical narratives, the genre has lost its popularity. By critically engaging classic as well as recent music biographical literature this class seeks to interrogate the genre, its current transformations, and its future viability as music scholarship opens to modes of inquiry from ethnomusicology, popular music studies, anthropology, sociology, cultural studies, and performance studies.
When Offered Fall.
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: MUSIC 4325
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- M Lincoln Hall 101B
Instructors
Madrid, A