How has contact with the rest of the world changed
the
culture of the West?
Is it used as “other� (the Orient,
exotic, a place for
the forbidden)?
To renew our culture (the
purity of the
native??)?
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To create a new hybrid?
As intrinsic to new ways of thinking in our culture
(has it
changed us)?
Where in a continuum from Exoticism to
Multiculturalism do
the attitudes exemplified in this music fall?
There are several kinds of readings:
Individual reading
assignments:� at least two per week;
Selected from lists available in Blackboard for each class
Give an abstract of the content, using the five questions listed below.� Summarize and select some examples,� do not give us a run through of the article.
Materials on reserve in Perkins:
Articles about the music and issues of this course
Primary sources – writing of people who created the music
Blackboard has links to
Biographies of some composers – read these so I won’t
need to cover them in
class
Outlines of history and art of the period
Weekly 5-10-minute quizzes identifying music from the assigned listening list, including full name of composer, title and movement (if any) of work and date
A presentation
on music or
art related to music of the twentieth century.
Outline notes of presentation, answers to the Five Questions, and
bibliography
to be turned in.
Your presentation should contribute to the
central
questions of this course. Use the five questions (below) as a framework
for
your study.
What is the question being asked? Why did the author write?
What are the concepts in terms of which the question is asked? What assumptions are being used?
What are the procedures being used to answer the question? What is the method? How does the author proceed
What conclusions are reached? What answer does the author give?
What is the relevance of the question? Why does it matter? So what?