Music
MUSC 2340: Divas, DJs, and Double Standards
Lecture - 4 credits
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- Examines the significance of gender to the experience of and access to participation in music making, listening, the music industries, and cultural recognition.
- Surveys how gender differences have been constructed, enacted, and contested in historical and contemporary musical cultures and develops critical lenses for analyzing musical representations of gender difference and their social impact.
- Considers how gender intersects with racial and sexual identities in music and its institutional structures.
- Uses case studies drawn from a variety of contexts, such as classical (Bizet's “Carmen”), popular (Beyoncé), film (“Star Wars”), and avant-garde (Yoko Ono).
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