Prof. Marianne Kielian-Gilbert
1:00-2:15 PM TR Room M267 (Simon Music Library)
Course description
This special topics course brings together work on women's studies and music analysis and interpretation (semiotics, critical theory) in order to explore connections between women, music, and gender. The course will be organized around particular topics (rather than by chronology) and in relation to specific musical works and analyses. We will consider different types of music from classical to popular and the ways in which gender is implicated in various musical practices or in the analyses which seek to characterize those practices.
Possible topics
framing feminism: musicology and music theory
theorizing difference--race, class, nationality, sexuality, gender (and representations of women)
musical discourse, metaphor and narrative
music and the body; performance and the role of the listener
multiple positions and revisionist strategies; alternative genres
personal voice, identity: the woman composer
Readings
Selections will also be geared to the interests of those participating and may include texts by authors such as: Abbate, Adorno, Atalli, Barkin, Boretz, Citron, Cook, Cox, Cusick, Dahlhaus, Drinker, Frith, Guck, Hisama, Kielian-Gilbert, Killam, Koskoff, Kramer, Maus, McClary, Nattiez, Rahn, Reich, Seeger, Shephard, Sloboda, Solie, Subotnik, Straus, Tick, Treitler, van den Toorn, Wood. [The instructor has particular interests in the music of 19th- and 20-century composers.]
Course Requirements
Readings, class discussion, short reaction papers or reports on issues arising in the readings, one major paper and class presentation.