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2018FA_MUSICOL_333-0_SEC1_AND_433-0_SEC1
European Popular Music MUSICOL 333 Prof: Inna Naroditskaya innarod@gmail.com Monday-Wednesday, 12:30-1:50 Course Plan W 1 Oct. 1 Intro: What is popular music?! Oct. 3 · Simon Frith, “The Good, the Bad, and the Indifferent: Defending Popular Culture from the Populists;” · Frith, “Look! Hear! The Uneasy Relationship of Music and Television” · Irving Wolther, More than Just Music: the Seven Dimensions of the Eurovision Song Contest” W 2 Oct. 8 France · Harold B. Segel, “Fin de siecle Cabaret” · Keith Reader, “Flaubert Sparrow or the Bovary of Belleville: Edith Piaf as Cultural Icon” (· Andy Fry, “'Du jazz hot à "La Créole"': Josephine Baker Sings Offenbach”) Oct. 10 ----- · Chris Tinker, “A Singer-Songwriter’s View of the French Record Industry: The Case of Leo Ferre” · Tinker, “Georges Brassens and Jacques Brel” W 3 Oct. 15 · Tinker, Jacques Brel is Alive and Well (additional) · Adeline Cordier, “Brel-Brassens-Ferre and Frenchness” · David Looseley, In from the Margins: Chanson, Pop and Cultural Legitimacy” Oct. 17 Italy · Tony Mitchell, “Questions of Style: Notes on Italian Hip Hop” · Jacopo Tomatis, Portrait of the Author as an Artist in the Canzone d’Autore” W 4 Oct. 22 · Paolo Prato, “Selling Italy by the Sound” · Italy, Celentano, Virtuosity and Populism · Dario Martinelli, Lasciatemi Cantare and Other Diseases: Italian Pop Music Abroad” Oct. 24 Britain · Charles Gower Price, “Sources of American Styles in the Music of the Beatles” · John Platoff, “John Lennon,’Revolution,’ and the Politics of Musical Reception” W 5 Oct. 29 · Robert J. Kruse II, “Imagining Strawberry Fields as a Place of Pilgrimage” · Marianne Tatom Letts, “Sky of Blue, Sea of Green: A Semiotic Reading of the FilmYellow Submarine" · Ned Rorem, “The Music of the Beatles” Oct. 31 Mid-Term W 6 Nov. 5 Russia · Robert A. Rothstein, “How It Was Sung in Odessa: At the Intersection of Russian and Yiddish Folk” · Christopher Lazarski, “Vladimir Vysotsky and His Cult” Nov. 7 Class Discussion/Notes t.A.T.u Pussy Riot · Terry Bright, Soviet Crusade against Pop” Dana Heller, “t.A.T.u. You! Russia, the Global Politics of Eurovision, and Lesbian Pop” · Yngvar B. Steinholt, Russian, Kitten Heresy- Lost Contexts of Pussy Riot's W 7 Nov. 12 Eurovision · Toni Langlois, The Rise and Fall of Singing Tiger · Goffredo Plastino, Sanremo Nov. 14 Winning and Losing · Ivan Raykoff and Robert Deam Tobin, A Song for Europe, Intro, “Camping on the Borders of Europe” W 8 Nov. 19 Israel – Dana International · Ted Swedenburg, Saida Sultan from Empire of Song · Yossi Maurey, “Dana International and the Politics of Nostalgia” Nov. 21 Not in Europe and beyond · Katherine Meizel, “Idol Thoughts: Nationalism in the pan-Arab Vocal Competition Superstar” (A song for Europe) W 9 Nov. 26 Turkey – Europe · Thomas Solomon, “The Oriental Body on the European Stage” · Matthew Gumpert, “’Everyway that I can’: Auto-Orientalism at Eurovision 2003” Nov. 28 Nordic and Slavic Victors · Galina Miazhevich, “Ukrainian Nation Branding Off-line and Online: Verka Serduchka at the Eurovision Song Contest” · Annemette Kirkegaard, The Nordic Brotherhood” W10 Dec. 3 PRESENTATIONS Dec. 5 PRESENTATIONS Requirements 1. Attendance 2. Preparation for each class 3. Participation in class discussions and performance 4. Intellectual and musical curiosity 5. Weekly journals – summary of the reading material assigned for a week/not a class lecture or discussion, submitted by Friday noon via Canvas (approximately 250-300 words) 3. Independent research on mid-term and final projects Grading Attendance and class participation 10% Weekly journals 20% Mid-term 25% Final project – oral 20% – written 25%
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2019WI_COMM_ST_324-1_SEC20 Rhetoric of U.S. Women's Rights, Part I
tudents in this course will investigate the early U.S. women’s rights movement through the analysis of primary texts and the examination of critical essays. Students should expect to gain a complex and nuanced perspective on the rhetorical history of public advocacy by U.S. women, and also to improve their skills in critical reading and analysis.
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2019SP_COMM_ST_525-0_SEC1 Seminar-Problems in Comm Studies: Popular Education in 19c US
In this course we will study the theoretical dynamics and practical parameters of popular learning in the nineteenth-century United States. How did nineteenth-century Americans understand and practice intellectual culture? What counted as desirable knowledge? Who could possess such knowledge, and how was knowledge obtained and shared? What can extant records of popular educational practices teach us about the creation and maintenance of national and regional identities and the politics of inclusion and exclusion? We will investigate these questions by reading recent rhetorical, historical, and literary scholarship on nineteenth-century U.S. popular education and conducting independent projects informed by primary research.