Popular Music

MUSI W4420

Music and Property
Section 001 Call Number: 66829 Points: 3   
Instructor: Aaron A Fox (bio)

Tues/Thurs 6:10pm-7:25pm, 622 Dodge Hall

This is an upper-level undergraduate lecture/discussion course (also open to graduate students by instructor permission). The goal of the course is to survey the pragmatic, ethical, and philosophical dimensions of assertions that “music” is something that can be “owned” by individuals, groups, governments, or private institutions. Because this is a sweeping topic, and one only recently emergent within musical scholarship as a major alternative to approaches through aesthetics, cognition/perception, performance, or social history, this course will be designed with a focus on several major domains of current debate and emergent scholarly focus: current conflicts over the practice of “illegal downloading” of copyrighted music from file sharing networks; digital sampling and music production; the appropriation of cultural value in “world music;” and the question of “cultural property rights” with respect to Native and Indigenous cultural heritage materials (including music recordings) held in archives and museums in the US (the focus of the instructor’s own work).

MUSI G9401 (Advanced Seminar in Ethnomusicology 1)
NEW FOR SPRING 2013

Archiving Practice
Call Number: 74384 Points: 3 
Instructor: Aaron A Fox (bio)

Tuesdays 2:10pm-4:00pm, 701C Dodge Hall

Topics, literature, and projects in audio archive management, repatriation, and intellectual property issues.  

MUSI G9402 (Advanced Seminar in Ethnomusicology)

Music, Affect, and Public Culture
Instructor: Ellen Gray (bio)
Call #: 28037, 3 pts 

Thursdays 12:10pm-2:00pm, 701C Dodge

Musical anthropology and ethnomusicology have tentatively begun to work with "affect" as a keyword for understanding how contemporary cultures of musical circulation and listening shape publics and mobilize sentiment. But what is "affect"? How does it differ from "emotion"? How might one go about ethnographi- cally studying affect when sound/music/aesthetics are the object of inquiry? This seminar places two con- temporary interdisciplinary "turns" in the social sciences and humanities (the "acoustic turn" and the "affective turn") in productive alignment. We track genealogies of the following keywords and terms through relevant theoretical and ethnographic literatures: "listening"; "voice"; "emotion"; "structures of feeling"; "affect"; "public feeling" and "publics" while thinking through the possibilities of "affect" for anthropologies of sound and music.

MUSI W4442/RUSSIAN 84442 (New Course for Spring 2013)

Musical Exoticisms of the Former Soviet Union 
Instructor: Maria Sonevytsky (Postdoctoral Fellow, Harriman Institute)
Call #: 23331, 3 pts,

Thursdays, 10:10am-12:00pm, 701A Dodge

In this course, we explore musical discourses of “civilization” and “barbarism” with a focus on examples from Ukraine, Russia, and Central Asia. The historical scope of the class includes key moments since the 18th century through the present day. Topics will include music of the “Gypsies,” Klezmer and Yiddish songs, music of the Carpathian Mountains, Crimean Tatars, Uzbeks, Siberian shamans, renowned Soviet composers, Eurovisions contestants, and Post-Soviet African-Ukrainiam hip-hop artists.

MUSI W4126 (NEW COURSE FOR SPRING 2013)

European Music in America (1825-1950)
Instructor: Davide Ceriani (bio)
Call #: 76497, 3 pts

MW 2:40pm-3:55pm, 622 Dodge

The aim of this course is to provide a deeper understanding of the musical interactions between Europe and the United States from the first performance of an Italian opera sung in its original language in America (Gioachino Rossini's Il barbiere di Siviglia, 1825) until Arnold Schoenberg's death in Los Angeles in 1951. The course will address issues such as identity and cultural pride through music, the concept of a musical canon in America, and reception of European culture in the United States.

AFAS W4031/MUSI 84031
NEW COURSE for SPRING 2013!

Popular Music and Protest Movements
Instructor: Prof. Kevin Fellezs (bio)
Call #: 61032, 3 pts, 

T 4:10pm-6:00pm 
758 Schermerhorn Extension

“Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music." Jimi Hendrix This course will examine the relationship between popular music and popular movements in various historical and social contexts with an emphasis on African American musicians and political issues. We will trace various legacies within popular music that fall under the rubric of "protest music" as well as to think about the ways in which popular music has assisted various commu- nities to speak truth to power. We will also consider the ways in which the impact of the music industry has either lessened or enhanced popular music ?s ability to articulate "protest" or "resistance."

For Fall 2012, the Department of Music and the Music Performance Program are pleased to offer six "World Music" ensembles, including Bluegrass, Klezmer, Japanese Gagaku/Hogaku (separate ensembles), Middle Eastern, and Latin groups.  All four are offfered as 1 or 2 credit ensembles under the course number MUSI V1625. (Click on each section number to go to the associated Directory of Classes listing.)

NB: For most participants, these ensembles expect a year-long commitment (fall and spring semester registration) and hold auditions for new members ONLY in the Fall.

For more information on these ensembles, contact:
The CU Music Performance Program (Becky Lu, Program Coordinator)
Office Hours: Tuesday-Friday, 12:00 to 5:00PM in 618 Dodge
Email: mpp@columbia.edu         Phone: (212) 854-1257
Website: www.music.columbia.edu/mpp/

WORLD MUSIC ENSEMBLE-BLUEGRASS
Call Number: 64457 Points: 1-2 
Notes: AUDITIONS REQUIRED & ARE IN FALL ONLY. SIGN UP IN 618 DODGE
Instructor: Jordan Shapiro

Fall 2012 Music G6333
PROSEMINAR IN MUSIC THEORY
Section 001 Call Number: 19806 Points: 3
Day/Time: T 2:10pm-4:00pm
Location: To be announced
Instructor: Prof. Joseph P Dubiel  (bio)

Introductory graduate seminar in music theory.  Required of all graduate students in Music Theory and fulfils second proseminar requirement for music PhD students in other areas.
 

Enrollment by permission of instructor only.

Fall 2012 Music G9403
ADVANCED ETHNOMUSICOLOGY SEMINAR: POPULAR MUSIC AESTHETICS
Call Number: 66547 Points: 3
Day/Time: T 6:10pm-8:00pm
Location: To be announced
Instructor: Prof. Kevin Fellezs (bio)

Click here to view the description and syllabus for this course.  (PDF)

Fall 2012 Music G9401
ADVANCED SEMINAR-ETHNOMUSICOLOGY I: CARIBBEAN NEW YORK
Call Number: 76972 Points: 3
Day/Time: T 9:00am-10:50am
Location: To be announced
Instructor: Prof. Christopher Washburne (bio)

Fall 2012 Music G6427
MUSIC, MYTH, AND INDIGENEITY
Call Number: 27797 Points: 3
Day/Time: M 4:10pm-6:00pm
Location: To be announced
Instructor: Ana Maria Ochoa (bio)

Fall 2012 Music G6412
PROSEMINAR in ETHNOMUSICOLOGY II: Contemporary Ethnography
Section 001  Call Number: 28211 Points: 3
Day/Time: T 2:10pm-4:00pm
Location: To be announced
Instructor: Aaron A Fox (bio)

A survey of landmark works of musical/sonic ethnography. Permission of instructor required. Priority given to graduate students in Music.

Fall 2012 Music G4461
MUSIC AND PLACE
Section 001 Call Number: 17049 Points: 3
Day/Time: R 12:10pm-2:00pm
Location: To be announced
Instructor: Ellen Gray (bio)

This course provides an introduction to contemporary work on music and place from an ethnomusicological perspective. It situates ethnomusicological work and specific musical case studies from multiple geographical regions within an interdisciplinary theoretical framework that draws from the fields of cultural anthropology, cultural, media, and sound studies.

Fall 2012 Music W4430
LISTENING AND SOUND IN CROSS-CULTURAL PERSPECTIVE
Section 001 Call Number: 13346 Points: 3
Day/Time: MW 1:10pm-2:25pm
Location: To be announced
Instructor: Prof. Ana Maria Ochoa (bio)

The objective of this course is to explore the relationship between listening, sound and music across different cultures and in different historical moments and contexts. This will be explored through recent histories of listening, through anthropological work on hearing and sound in different cultures and through the field of acoustic ecology. The course will seek to compare these three scholarly perspectives and their contributions to a historical and contextual understanding of listening practices.

Meets Global Core Requirements.  Meets CSER major requirements.

Fall 2012 Music G4401
FIELD METHODS & TECHNIQUES in ETHNOMUSICOLOGY
Section 001 Call Number: 84281 Points: 3
Day/Time: TR 9:00am-10:50am
Location: To be announced
Instructor: Prof. Christopher J Washburne (bio)

The goals of this course are practice-oriented. The end result will be short fieldwork-based project of approxiamtely 20 pages in length. In order to complete the paper, students will conduct fieldwork, read and synthesize relevant literatures, and think carefully about the questions in which they are interested and methods of addressing them through ethnographic inquiry.

This course is open to both undergraduate and graduate students.  Permission of the instructor is required.