MUSIC 7327

Listening from the Other Side: Music, Masculinity, and the Homophobic Gaze

Course Description

Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2020-2021.

This seminar focuses on the uses of music in the performative construction of masculinities. It pays particular attention to how issues of difference play a central role in the development of notions of masculinity, especially in relation to notions of race and class. In articulating the intersection of masculinity and difference students also focus on misogyny, homophobia, and xenophobia as fundamental regeants in the production of toxic masculinities. The seminar also seeks to challenge students to think critically about networks of male participation and circulation in musical culture and their reflection and impact on mainstream notions of sex, gender, and queerness in relation to larger geographic, political, and economic configurations such as the nation-state, the European Union, USMCA, etc.

When Offered Spring.

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