MYE 532E - Topical Issues in West.Music

Course Objectives

1. Through readings and discussion, to develop an intellectual awareness of one of the main contextual and interpretative issues in the study of Music History,
2. To develop an understanding of the interplay of musical repertoires with conceptual parameters
3. To familiarise students with how current ideas on the chosen topic have been formed and are expressed

Course Description

Music and nationalism; music and identity; the musical canon; gender; post-colonialism,exoticism and Orientalism; music in ritual and ceremonial contexts; meaning and authenticity,