Music Final Paper
Requirements: From the many topics we will cover in class, choose two (one per paper) that were especially meaningful to you. Write profusely about your personal experience with the musical practices you chose, explaining why you chose them, why and how you feel connected to them, and what do you think they mean to the people who practice them. Enrich your narrative with relevant quotes, sources, and information, but really focus on describing and analyzing your personal experience, striving to make a convincing, strong argument. If you consider it relevant, compare the practices you chose with other musical practices you know and/or participate in. Discuss how and why those practices are important to you and how do you think they compare to the ones we studied in class. The final paper is expected to be about a topic from Weeks 6 to 10. The essays should be at least 7 pages long, doubled spaced, but longer texts are encouraged.
Please follow all instructions to do this assignment, thank you.
Week 6 :
Women in Concert Music Today
Western Concert Music’s diversity issues
Know your current day female composers: a starting point
Women in Concert Music Today: A Roundtable
Guests: Anahita Abbasi, Lydia Brindamour, Celeste Oram, Tiange Zhou.
Suggested readings: Bhagwati, Doolittle.
Week 7 :
Current musical practices and Indigenous peoples in the Americas
Cultural appropriation
Indigenous rock, hip hop, reggae…
Indigenous artists in experimental and concert music
Suggested readings: Aguilar Gil, Davids, Laura.
Week 8 :
Border Music: From Norteño to Nortec [1]
Cultural hybridization and music
Remix culture and the border
Suggested reading: Anzaldúa, Borderlands, chapters 1-2
Week 9 :
Border Music: From Norteño to Nortec [2]
Experimentalisms at the border
RiP!: A discussion of the film
Music and copyright
Please watch: Gaylor, RiP! A Remix Manifesto. Suggested reading: Boyle and Jenkins
Week 10 :
Review and discussions for final papers