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JMUH Jazz Music History LANT Anthropology Fall 2015 - Course Descriptions JMUH Jazz Music History LANT Anthropology JMUH 1803 History of Jazz LANT 2040 Indigenous Formations & Settler Governance Faculty: Kirchner, William MW 10:00 AM - 11:20 AM Credits: 3 CRN 6270 Sec A Faculty: TBA, Faculty MW 11:55 AM - 01:35 PM Credits: 4 CRN 7321 Sec A A one-semester overview of jazz development, beginning with its roots in African, European, and The category Indigenous has various meanings, which have been used to mobilize action toward a American music and continuing to the bands of New Orleans and other American and world number of political ends. However, as Orin Starn writes, "The truth is that indigeneity, precisely influences. The work and stylistic contributions of the great jazz originals, from Buddy Bolden to because it has no fixed or necessary meaning or destination, comes with no guarantees." This has John Coltrane and beyond, are examined in their cultural and musical context. been revealed by instances of armed resistance to both the FBI and tribal government at Wounded JMUH 2810 Classical Music History Knee in the early 1970's, as well as the forms of protest and political action that continue to demand justice and recognition for Indigenous peoples today. Ethnographically, this course will Faculty: Beliavsky, Daniel MW 10:00 AM - 11:20 AM Credits: 3 CRN 6152 Sec A look at everyday life within and across the borders of reservations. Though the course will focus on A one-semester survey of the great tradition of Western classical music before 1900. Students the United States, we will also look at a number of other settler states to discuss how indigeneity is study the formal and aesthetic qualities of selected works and consider them in relation to their articulated as an international rights-based claim. Indigenous is a concept used to describe historical and social context. Special attention is given to developing an understanding of the inherent notions of community, belonging, sovereignty, and political relatedness. Conversely, relevance of this musical tradition to contemporary improvising musicians. Indigenous, as well as analogues like Indian, Native, First Nation, and Aboriginal, have been used JMUH 3802 World Music History by states to define, detail, and survey colonized peoples as a tactic of governance. These Faculty: TBA, Faculty MW 10:00 AM - 11:20 AM Credits: 3 CRN 6153 Sec A categories are also used to displace, eliminate, and disperse populations struggling for political Knowledge of the world's musical forms and traditions is invaluable to aspiring musicians today. and cultural recognition. This course explores notions of indigeneity, as they are cast both within This course examines the historical and cultural contexts of music from around the world. Topics Indigenous communities, as well as the settler states that seek to regulate them. Course readings of special interest include: how music travels, cross-cultural syncretism, musical interconnections, will include introductions to Indigenous politics and settler colonial studies, complemented by a and how music is brokered and commodified. range of ethnographic texts that account for the forms of power that operate between settler governance and Indigenous political life. JMUH 3805 Punk and Noise LANT 2100 Postcolonial Africa Faculty: Rapport, Evan MW 02:00 PM - 03:20 PM Credits: 3 CRN 7196 Sec A This course explores the aesthetics, techniques, history, and elements of style of punk and noise Faculty: Roitman, Janet TR 10:00 AM - 11:40 AM Credits: 4 CRN 6952 Sec A music, with an emphasis on New York City-based musicians, audiences, and venues. Related Postcolonial Africa is typically represented as a marginal place in the world: a place of disorder topics include postmodernism, youth subcultures, the music industry, and issues of politics and and war. How does anthropology help us to consider Africa's place in our world? Do gender. The course offers opportunities for performance and composition. Crosslisted with Eugene anthropological accounts of postcolonial Africa confirm that it is a place of chaos and violence? Or Lang College. does anthropology allow us to better understand how we came to think about Africa as prone to violence and marginality? This seminar will consider these questions. We will examine some of the key concepts and debates that are central to the anthropology of postcolonial Africa with an aim to developing a critical perspective on representations of this vast continent and the diversity of practices that make Africa more than a continent. The seminar will take a thematic approach, covering topics such as kinship and ethnicity, religion and witchcraft, and economics and globalization. We will use both ethnographies and novels as the basis for discussion and debate. This course satisfies requirements in Reading and Writing. LANT 3036 Good Death, Bad Death Faculty: Farman Farmaian, TR 10:00 AM - 11:40 AM Credits: 4 CRN 6953 Sec A Description to come. This course will satisfy requirements in Reading and Doing. Office of the Dean 3/20/2015 Page 1 of 79 LANT 3060 Flesh: Pleasure, Pain, Play LCST 2129 "The Girl" as Media Faculty: MW 01:50 PM - 03:30 PM Credits: 4 CRN 6428 Sec A Faculty: Wark, Kenneth MW 11:55 AM - 01:35 PM Credits: 4 CRN 6101 Sec A The recent proliferation of writings on the social significations of the human body have brought to "*""The Girl"" as Media Image* [Tracks M & C] She is everywhere: selling everything from the fore the epistemological, disciplinary, and ideological structures that have participated in magazines to real estate. The Girl now mediates our relationship to commodities, and even to creating a dimension of the human body that goes beyond its physical constitution. The course, each other. Feminist theory has argued that these images are not those of ""real women,"" but has within the context of anthropology, has two considerations, a historical one and a contemporary had less to say about how ""she"" has become a structural necessity for marketing. This course one. If anthropology can be construed as the study of human society and culture, then, following examines both these aspectsùgender and commodity. It examines popular culture (Beyonce) and Marcel Mauss, this study must consider the actual, physical bodies that constitute the social and theories of gender, but also writers and artists who have dissented from this figure, from Kathy the cultural. Therefore great attention needs to be paid to the historical, theological, religious, Acker to Beatriz Preciado. It also considers men who have appropriated and channeled her, from political and juridical forces that have participated in this process. The course is radically Warhol's transgender superstars to Almodovar's Hollywood drag. This course links theories of the interdisciplinary utilizing approaches not only from contemporary and historical anthropology, but commodity, gender, and sexuality and applies them to contemporary everyday experience. [Tracks also from classics, psychoanalysis, biomedicine, critical medical studies, literature, history and film M & C]" studies. Some of the questions addressed through the readings and the discussion are the LCST 2150 Intro to Cinematography following: How do we, as cultural subjects, perceive the body and what meanings do we assign to Faculty: TBA, Faculty W 09:00 AM - 11:40 AM Credits: 3 CRN 5820 Sec A it? How do we decode these meanings by and through everyday and ritual practices? How are gender/power/knowledge inscribed on the body and how do we index them through the experience of the flesh (circumcision and kleitoridectomies, homoeroticism, drug use and LCST 2160 Introduction to Editing addiction, torture, but also authorised and unauthorised eroticsùpleasure, pain, play). What are Faculty: Zahedi, Caveh R 12:10 PM - 02:50 PM Credits: 3 CRN 5816 Sec A the negotiations of bodily identities in illness, disease and death (cancer, AIDS, pregnancy, This class is designed to help students deepen their understanding of the complex art of editing, paraplegia), and what are the constructions on the ownership of the body (the individual, the with attention given to both the technical and aesthetic aspects of editing. Each student, under the community, the church, the state, the legal system). This course explores these ideological and guidance of the instructor, will be responsible for editing several hours of documentary footage political discourses that have made not only the constructions on the body possible but have also into a concise, carefully crafted, engaging, moving, entertaining, and intellectually stimulating provided the reading of those discourses. collectively-edited work. LCST 2450 Introduction to Media Studies LCST Cultural Studies Faculty: Eichhorn, Cathleen TR 10:15 AM - 11:30 AM Credits: 3 CRN 1712 Sec A LCST 2120 Introduction to Cultural Studies *Introduction to Media Studies* [Track M] This course introduces the student to basic concepts Faculty: Rault, Jasmine TR 08:30 AM - 09:45 AM Credits: 3 CRN 4507 Sec A and approaches in the critical analysis of communications media. Drawing on contemporary *Intro to Cultural Studies* [Tracks C & M] This course examines the pivotal role of culture in the critiques and historical studies, it seeks to build an understanding of different forms of media, modern world, including the ideas, values, artifacts, and practices of people in their collective such as photography and cinema, television and video, the internet and hypermedia, in order to lives. Cultural Studies focuses on the importance of studying the material processes through which assess their role and impact in society. Since media are at once technology, art and culture is constructed. It highlights process over product and rupture over continuity. In particular, entertainment, and business enterprises, they need to be studied from a variety of disciplinary it presents culture as a dynamic arena of social struggle and utopian possibility. Students read key perspectives. The readings for the course reflect this multi-pronged approach and draw attention thinkers and examine critical frameworks from a historical and a theoretical approach, such as to the work of key thinkers and theorists in the field.
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