Fall 2008 Course Schedule For the most up-to-date class schedule information login to MyNewSchool JMUH 1801 A - History of Jazz A CRN: 1421 Credits 3 Profesor(s): William Kirchner Day(s) & Time(s): M: 9:00 am - 11:40 am Prerequisite(s Course Description This course is an overview of Jazz development, beginning with its roots in African, European, and American music and continuing on to the bands of New Orleans and other American and world influences. It combines listening to a variety of the most important jazz recordings with lecture and discussion of their musical and social contexts. It focuses on the first half of the 20th century, including the origins of jazz in New Orleans, its spread throughout the US and the world, the development of the orchestral jazz big-band (swing era), and the development of the improvising "bebop" jazz combo. No extensive background in music or the ability to play a musical instrument is required. This course satisfies some requirements for The Arts. JMUH 2810 A - Classical Music History CRN: 5448 Credits 3 Profesor(s): Daniel Beliavsky Day(s) & Time(s): F: 9:00 am - 11:40 am Prerequisite(s Course Description This course surveys the great tradition of Western classical music prior to 1900. Students study the formal and aesthetic qualities of selected works and consider these works in relation to their historical and social contexts. The focus is on developing an understanding of the relevance of this musical tradition to contemporary improvising musicians. JPER 4590 A - Gospel Chorus CRN: 2352 Credits 1 TO 2 Profesor(s): Charlotte Small Day(s) & Time(s): R: 6:00 pm - 7:50 pm Prerequisite(s Course Description This class is open to all students who are interested in the experience of singing gospel music. The course involves singing a variety of gospel music styles, ranging from traditional to urban xontemporary. The focus revolves around phrasing, stamina, and three-part singing to achieve the authentic gospel sound. JTEB 4426 A - Survey of the Music Business CRN: 6419 Credits 2 Profesor(s): Gene Perla Day(s) & Time(s): W: 6:00 pm - 7:50 pm Prerequisite(s Course Description This course provides an overview of the business of music. Students become acquainted with how the business affects the professional musician, music educator, and businessperson. Practical information is covered involving areas such as: copyright laws, performing rights, mechanical rights, agents, management, unions and benefits, the non-for-profit sector, how to create work for yourself, success mindset, problems faced by professional musicians including procrastination, lack of motivation, poor career development and lack of work. Emphasis is on placed on the use of the internet and other contemporary technologies to further the musician's career. The goal of this course is to impart the necessary skills in order to become successful professional musicians and to develop the knowledge of how to build a career in the music industry that includes variety, longevity and levels of success. For the most up-to-date class schedule information login to MyNewSchool Page 1 of 91 LAIC 2001 A - Women Choreographing Culture CRN: 5639 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Ellen Graff Day(s) & Time(s): TR: 12:00 pm - 1:40 pm Prerequisite(s Course Description This course explores the work of significant 20th century female artists in parallel with a reading of classical and contemporary literary texts that inspired and/or influenced their work. Contemporary feminist scholarship helps to generate alternative ways to analyze images produced by these female artists, the purpose these images continue to serve, and the ways in which they may be reinterpreted. The seminar seeks to understand the potential of performance and of the lived body to imagine and generate new and different possibilities. LAIC 2006 A - Debates in Performance Studies CRN: 6495 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Danielle Goldman Day(s) & Time(s): TR: 2:00 pm - 3:40 pm Prerequisite(s Course Description This course introduces students to the field of performance studies. Students survey the history of the field and consider its relations to other academic disciplines. Students discuss questions of methodology and explore debates concerning liveness, performativity, the performance of identity, and the migration of expressive culture. In addition to foundational written texts (by authors such as J.L. Austin, Alain Badiou, Judith Butler, Jacques Derrida, Erving Goffman, Michel DeCerteau, Fred Moten, José Muñoz, Peggy Phelan, and Richard Schechner), students analyze a range of documented and live performances in New York City - dance, theater, and music, as well as events more commonly associated with everyday life. The course welcomes students across the arts at Lang, as well as students in the humanities and social sciences who are curious about performance. LAIC 2007 A - Blondell Cummings Workshop CRN: 6621 Credits 2 Profesor(s): Stefania de Kenessey Day(s) & Time(s): F: 2:00 pm - 6:00 pm Prerequisite(s Course Description The United Nations Declaration of Human Rights is the focus of a series of interdisciplinary workshops. Using observation and research materials from personal, local and global perspectives, human rights issues is explored through traditional and non-traditional approaches, partnerships and collaborations. Artists in all media and non-artists are invited to contribute and realize their ideas and points of view. This three week workshop concludes with a final meditative workshop open to the entire Eugene Lang College community. LAIC 2009 A - Performance/Phenomenon CRN: 6421 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Francis Cardona Day(s) & Time(s): TR: 6:00 pm - 7:40 pm Prerequisite(s Course Description This course explores, through physical practice, what it is to move from "natural" states to "performance" states. Students consider conceptual frameworks involving time, space, and place - and the body's capacity to process and perceive these things - through improvisational movement scores taking place in the studio. All practice, observation, and feedback is theorized through discussion, which leads to additional rounds of practice and experimentation. The course is geared toward dancers, choreographers, visual artists, actors or performers of any kind. Students analyze written texts, live performances, exhibitions, and artworks. For the most up-to-date class schedule information login to MyNewSchool Page 2 of 91 LAIC 2055 A - Introduction to American Indian Arts CRN: 5463 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Tina Majkowski Day(s) & Time(s): MW: 10:00 am - 11:40 am Prerequisite(s Course Description This course examines the role of art and performance in American Indian communities and political movements. Although the focus is on particular performance practices, from current traditional storytelling to performance art and alter/native music, the course also examines the role of the American Indian social and political experience in these practices. Topics include: tradition in American Indian art, the constructed and performative nature of Indianness, reinventing American Indian performance practices and characterization of the reservation in contemporary American Indian performance. Readings include Native American art criticism and literature and key texts that address the relationship between art/performance and race, including perhaps Elizabeth Bird's Dressing in Feathers; Jaye T. Darby and Hanay Geiogamah's Stories of Our Way: An Anthology of American Indian Plays; Joy Harjo and Gloria Bird's Reinventing the Enemy's Language. Performances viewed in class may include: James Luna, Greg Hill, Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Colorado Sisters, Hulleah J. Tsinhnahjinnie, Blackfire. LAIC 2069 A - Shock of the New CRN: 5640 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Royd Climenhaga Day(s) & Time(s): MW: 2:00 pm - 3:40 pm Prerequisite(s Course Description This course explores the base cultural conditions of Modernism and the need for new models of expression in the arts to reflect radical changes in modes of living beginning in the late 19th century and as they escalate through the 20th century. New modes of expression are considered across the arts, from visual art to music and literature to dance and theater performance. The course follows explosive challenges to form and desire for the new in artistic and cultural practice from the growth of the avant–garde at the turn of the century, through the Punk movements of the `60s and `70's and on to more contemporary reconsiderations of expressive potential. LAIC 2102 A - Relationship Between Music and Dance CRN: 5641 Credits 4 Profesor(s): William Moulton Day(s) & Time(s): F: 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm Prerequisite(s Course Description Dance and music becomes a primal and complete art form, melding the visual, aural, and kinesthetic. This course develops the foundational skills necessary for working with music and dance and examines the history, theory, and understanding of their relationship. Students learn the elements of music and how they relate to the fundamentals of dance, and develop skills in playing and dancing particular rhythms. Through readings and video footage of dance works, students study the arrangement of music, and then how it relates to the structure of dance and choreography. Students deconstruct the relationship between music and dance, and in doing so, identify how aural and visual perceptions are linked as they observe and partake in dance. Open to all students. LAIC 3021 A - Artists on Art CRN: 5642 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Bonnie Marranca Day(s) & Time(s): TR: 2:00 pm - 3:40 pm Prerequisite(s Course Description his seminar is organized around writings by influential artists from the 18th century to the present who have written about performance, film, dance, photography, music, and visual arts. Among the many writers whose essays, letters, and manifestoes read are Susan Sontag, Roland Barthes, Heinrich von Kleist, T.S. Eliot, Vassily Kandinsky, John Cage, Agnes Martin, Mario Vargas Llosa, Anton Chekhov, Vaclav Havel, Gertrude Stein, Chinua Achebe. Artists' writings and individual artworks serve as the starting point for a wide-ranging consideration of many forms of artistic practice, cultural and political issues, and approaches to performance, writing, and visual culture.