MUS 145 Music and Violence
This course explores the role of music in generating, sustaining and contesting acts of political violence. It focuses on conflicts occurring throughout the globe, both historical and current, with case studies that examine terrorism, warfare, revolution, street violence, reconciliation and peace. The goal of this integrated study experience is to build an understanding of music's motivational powers and the interactive effects of music and political violence. The course will feature visiting performers and will pay particular attention to the discretely musical aspects of human and cultural rights. Our work will be oriented towards activism beyond the classroom. Students will become comfortable hearing music and thinking about musical practices in terms of how sounds and the realities they create are related to rights, discourses, and claims. GE 6A when linked with
POL 143.
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MUS