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Winter Term 2021 TOP:CULT HIST SOUND RECORDINGS - 1924 - MUCO 450
Registration for this term is over. Changes or corrections to registration now by petition only. Students should contact their academic advisor.
Approval of the instructor is now required for registration.


Prerequisites/Notes: MUCO 212 or MUCO 202

Catalog Description : An examination of the historical development of a single genre, stressing the effects of societal changes. Topics in this series vary from year to year. May be repeated when topic is different.

Topic for Fall 2020: A History of Music Revivals
This course will examine when, where, how and why musicians have revived musical works and practices from the period roughly encompassing 800-1750 AD. In addition to studying early musicking moments and movements, students will explore issues of performance practice and presentation by performing early musical works of their own choosing.



Topic for Fall 2020: Music and Disability
In this course we will pursue the multifaceted relationship between music and conceptions, constructions, and experiences of disability. Grounded in the field of Disability Studies, our exploration will involve performers, composers, and hearers; multiple musical genres, traditions, and practices; and issues of meaning, value, and difference. We will consider music’s power to reflect and configure bodies, attitudes, and ideas—to limit, but also to provide access to extraordinary possibilities.



Topic for Winter 2021: Cultural Histories of Sound Recordings
In this course we will examine the relationships of technologies of recorded sound to practices of composing, performing, preserving, archiving, consuming, and listening to music. Topics include: early ethnographic recording projects; the early history of the record industry; the use of historical recordings in musicological research and performance studies; magnetic tape as a medium of composition; easy listening and background music; multitrack recording and other techniques of studio recording; the cultural history of the long-playing record; the preservation and archiving of tape music compositions; mixtapes and mashups; sampling; and turntablism.



Topic for Spring 2021: Music and Memory
An exploration of the diverse ways that musical creation, practice, and reception are bound up with memory. We will examine music and ideas from the Middle Ages to the present, focusing on the ways music can function as, be affected by, create, invoke, and interrogate memory.



Topic for Spring 2021: Authenticity and Artifice in Popular Music
In this course we will explore topics related to authenticity and artifice in past and present genres of popular music in the U.S. and around the world, focusing on sound recordings and audiovisual media such as music videos and filmed concerts. We will examine concepts and constructions of sincerity, originality, fidelity, and superficiality in folk, blues, country, singer-songwriter, rock, disco, punk, metal, grunge, hip hop, electronica, and indie pop. Course is writing intensive.



Attributes: Music Course, GER Fine Arts Div, 400-599 Advanced Course


Term

Winter Term 2021

Instructors

Erica J. Scheinberg

Course

MUCO 450

Grade Mode

Standard

Title

TOP:CULT HIST SOUND RECORDINGS

Final Exam

Tuesday, Mar 16, 2021 09:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.

CRN

1924

Status

Active

Class Time

01:50 PM-03:00 PM MWF

Start-End Date

Jan 04, 2021-Mar 17, 2021

Campus

Appleton Main Campus

Units

6

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