Course Description:
This course takes students through different places and points in musical history to explore the role of music in constructing sexual identities, representations, and meanings of sexualities, as well as the ways in which sexualized music and sexualized performances of music played a role in different forms and periods of activism around the globe.
Learning Outcomes:
Students will learn how sexualization of musicians and music informs different processes of music production, communication and performance and their representation in different media discourses.
Students will engage different theories in gender, sexuality, and queer studies to help make sense of musicking sexualities from past and present.
This course also provides students with an introduction to ethnomusicological research methodology to study contemporary examples of musicked sexualities in politically contested settings.
This course involves a fieldwork assignment.
This course is intended for MA or advanced BA students. No prior knowledge in music or sound studies is needed.
Grade Breakdown:
This course follows the premise of project-based learning and requires the completion of 6 weekly short responses to the readings, one fieldwork report, and a final project.
• Weekly Reading Responses: 20%
Students are required to submit six 150-word reflection papers outlining their main takeaways, thoughts, and possible critiques of the readings. Reading Responses must be posted by 6pm the day before class to receive full credit.
• Active In-Class Participation: 10%
Students are required to participate actively in the discussion of lecture content.
• Fieldwork Report (Midterm): 30%
Students will be required to write one fieldwork report in which they document their ethnographic work. Reports will be graded on the correct application of ethnographic recording methods (40%), researcher positionality reflections (30%), and in-depth fieldnotes (60%)
• Final Project (Final): 40%
Students will complete a final project that involves an in-depth reflection on the ethnographic research conducted for the midterm regarding its relation to the course topic (themes/concepts/terms). Students develop a creative output of the findings, which they present in short presentations in class (5 minutes). Students will use the feedback from the presentation for further developing their idea of a creative output. Students will submit their developed creative output 4 weeks after the course sessions finish. Creative outputs will be graded on the appropriateness of the creative output to their ethnographic study material (40%), the clarity of how the creative output is presented (30%), and the innovative/creative approach taken (30%). Details will be discussed in class.
Attendance Policy
Students are required to attend all lectures and labs to receive full points for active in-class participation. Should a student miss a session, they are required to let their instructor know of their absence via email as soon as possible. Students are allowed a maximum of 1 unexcused absence. If a student has to miss class due to other academic engagements, the student is required to ask permission of the instructor in advance to have their absence excused.
Policy Regarding Missed or Late Assignments:
If a student misses an assignment, they should contact the instructor as soon as possible. Students are allowed to submit late work within 48 hours after the initial due date. Submissions that are received within the first 48 hours do not receive a late penalty. Submissions that are received after the first 48 hours past the due date will receive a 10% penalty for every additional day that the assignment is missing.
This course takes students through different places and points in musical history to explore the role of music in constructing sexual identities, representations, and meanings of sexualities, as well as the ways in which sexualized music and sexualized performances of music played a role in different forms and periods of activism around the globe.
Learning Outcomes:
Students will learn how sexualization of musicians and music informs different processes of music production, communication and performance and their representation in different media discourses.
Students will engage different theories in gender, sexuality, and queer studies to help make sense of musicking sexualities from past and present.
This course also provides students with an introduction to ethnomusicological research methodology to study contemporary examples of musicked sexualities in politically contested settings.
This course involves a fieldwork assignment.
This course is intended for MA or advanced BA students. No prior knowledge in music or sound studies is needed.
Grade Breakdown:
This course follows the premise of project-based learning and requires the completion of 6 weekly short responses to the readings, one fieldwork report, and a final project.
• Weekly Reading Responses: 20%
Students are required to submit six 150-word reflection papers outlining their main takeaways, thoughts, and possible critiques of the readings. Reading Responses must be posted by 6pm the day before class to receive full credit.
• Active In-Class Participation: 10%
Students are required to participate actively in the discussion of lecture content.
• Fieldwork Report (Midterm): 30%
Students will be required to write one fieldwork report in which they document their ethnographic work. Reports will be graded on the correct application of ethnographic recording methods (40%), researcher positionality reflections (30%), and in-depth fieldnotes (60%)
• Final Project (Final): 40%
Students will complete a final project that involves an in-depth reflection on the ethnographic research conducted for the midterm regarding its relation to the course topic (themes/concepts/terms). Students develop a creative output of the findings, which they present in short presentations in class (5 minutes). Students will use the feedback from the presentation for further developing their idea of a creative output. Students will submit their developed creative output 4 weeks after the course sessions finish. Creative outputs will be graded on the appropriateness of the creative output to their ethnographic study material (40%), the clarity of how the creative output is presented (30%), and the innovative/creative approach taken (30%). Details will be discussed in class.
Attendance Policy
Students are required to attend all lectures and labs to receive full points for active in-class participation. Should a student miss a session, they are required to let their instructor know of their absence via email as soon as possible. Students are allowed a maximum of 1 unexcused absence. If a student has to miss class due to other academic engagements, the student is required to ask permission of the instructor in advance to have their absence excused.
Policy Regarding Missed or Late Assignments:
If a student misses an assignment, they should contact the instructor as soon as possible. Students are allowed to submit late work within 48 hours after the initial due date. Submissions that are received within the first 48 hours do not receive a late penalty. Submissions that are received after the first 48 hours past the due date will receive a 10% penalty for every additional day that the assignment is missing.
- Teacher: קרולין מולר