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Course Name	Turkish	Müzik ve Toplumsal Cinsiyet
	English	Music and Gender
Course Code	MZJ 509	Credit	Lecture (hour/week)	Recitation (hour/week)	Laboratory (hour/week)
Semester	2	3	3	-	-
Course Language		Turkish
Course Coordinator		Şeyma Ersoy Çak
Course Objectives		• Attain knowledge on gender theories • Include gender, which is a broad research area in musicology and ethnomusicology, as a critical category to the research fields. • Examine masculinity, femininity and ‘other’ sexuality constructions in the researches within an analytical perspective in Western music, popular music and the musics of the world.
Course Description		‘Gender’ Theories. Gender Studies and Feminist Anthropology in musicology and ethnomusicology. Sexuality, body and queer theory. Semiotics and Feminist Criticism in gender &music studies. Women Musicians in Music History. Gender Debates in Western Music. Women’s Life Circles and Music in South and Southeast Asia. Women Identity and Islam in Middle East. Race, nation and gender in Latin America. Women Musicians in Jazz, Blues and Rock Music in North America and Europe. Music Video analysis within the context of gender. Technology and Gender.
Course Outcomes		Graduate students who successfully pass this course gain the following knowledge skills and competencies; I. Skill on developing creative, critical snd intercultural perspectives on gender and music studies II. Knowledge of theorizing social contexts through gender theories in music researches III. Knowledge of gender analysis in the music cultures of the world. IV. Competency on comprehending and interpreting artful and cultural performances of various identities.
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Textbook		Çak Ersoy, Şeyma ve Ş. Şehvar Beşiroğlu (ed.) (2017). Kadın ve Müzik, İstanbul, Milenyum Yayınları.
Other References		• Koskoff, Ellen. 1989. Women and Music in Cross-Cultural Perspective. USA: Illini Books. • McClary, Susan. 1991. Feminine Endings: Music Gender and Sexuality. 220pp. Mineapolis: University of Minnesota Press. • Moisala, Pirkko and Beverley Diamond. (ed.) 2000. Music and Gender. University of Illinois Press. • Herndon, Marcia and Suzanne Ziegler. 1990. Music, gender, and culture. ICTM/ Study Group on Music and Gender. • Burns, Lori and Melisse Lafrance. 2002. Distruptive Divas: Feminism, Identity, and Popular Music. New York: Routledge. • Tick,Judith, and Ellen Koskoff. 2001. “Women in Music”, Grove Music Online. Retrieved 10 October 2006 from http://www.grovemusic.com • Whiteley, Sheila. 2000. Women and Popular Music: Sexuality, Identity and Subjectivity, New York: Routledge.

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