Political Science (PS) |
936 Prince Lucien Campbell, 541-346-4864
College of Arts & Sciences
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C - Previously offered as a different course number; may not be repeated. Contact dept for more info.
t - Political theory
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Course Data
| PS 372 Music and Politics >AC >US |
4.00 cr. |
| In this class we will be asking questions about what is political about music of various musical styles and from diverse historical periods, exploring issues of cultural appropriation, issues of race, gender, and sexuality in music, and the politics of technology and music. |
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204 TYKE |
Chari A |
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Academic Deadlines
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Last day to: |
| January 5: |
Process a complete drop (100% refund, no W recorded) |
| January 11: |
Drop this course (100% refund, no W recorded; after this date, W's are recorded) |
| January 11: |
Process a complete drop (90% refund, no W recorded; after this date, W's are recorded) |
| January 12: |
Process a complete withdrawal (90% refund, W recorded) |
| January 12: |
Withdraw from this course (100% refund, W recorded) |
| January 13: |
Add this course |
| January 15: |
Last day to change to or from audit |
| January 19: |
Process a complete withdrawal (75% refund, W recorded) |
| January 19: |
Withdraw from this course (75% refund, W recorded) |
| January 26: |
Process a complete withdrawal (50% refund, W recorded) |
| January 26: |
Withdraw from this course (50% refund, W recorded) |
| February 2: |
Process a complete withdrawal (25% refund, W recorded) |
| February 2: |
Withdraw from this course (25% refund, W recorded) |
| February 23: |
Withdraw from this course (0% refund, W recorded) |
| February 23: |
Change grading option for this course |
 | You can't drop your last class using the "Add/Drop" menu in DuckWeb. Go to the “Completely Withdraw from Term/University” link to begin the complete withdrawal process. If you need assistance with a complete drop or a complete withdrawal, please contact the Office of Academic Advising, 101 Oregon Hall, 541-346-3211 (8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday). If you are attempting to completely withdraw after business hours, and have difficulty, please contact the Office of Academic Advising the next business day. |
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Expanded Course Description
| How does music relate to politics and power in social movements, subcultures, and the marketplace? This course will explore the relationship of music to politics, primarily in the US context. We will read about, write about, and listen to music from across genres and political moments including labor and civil rights songs, blues, R&B, hip hop, and pop, and we will look at the political contexts in which these forms of music are produced, performed, and consumed. We will be asking questions about what is political about music of these various musical styles and from diverse historical periods. We will not focus solely on music produced as an intervention into particular political movements, though we will look at examples of this kind (music from the American civil rights movement, for example). Rather, we are interested in how music of any and every kind is involved in the production of subjectivity, how changing formats of sound production and technology affect our sensory capacities as social and political subjects, how music structures collectivity, and how the relationship between form and content in music can be analyzed in ways that are useful for social and political critique. Our interests here are in the “micropolitics” of music. Above all, we will be learning tools for listening to music more deeply, so that we can have a deeper understanding of the ways that music impacts us and moves us, whether that be to action, inaction, political struggle, complacency, or emotion.
What is distinctive about this particular course in its approach to music and politics is the following: this course uses concepts from the subfield of Political Theory to interrogate the relationship between music and politics. Such concepts include: commodity fetishism, consciousness, political universality, class, race, gender, democracy, subjectivity, the polis, and micropolitics. In the process of learning about music and politics, largely in the context of 20th century American politics, you will therefore also be exposed to some of the fundamental concepts used in the subfield of Political Theory. |
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