MUSI309

This course is an ethno-musicological study of music and gender in cross-cultural perspective. It is concerned with how and why music is structured, performed, and experienced through gender. Within the past several decades, these relationships have become major areas of scholarly and critical inquiry. In this course, music and gender will be examined from perspectives such as ethnomusicology, gender studies, cultural studies, anthropology, and queer theory. A wide variety of both traditional and contemporary musical examples will be explored, and the critical depth and diversity of the students' own work will be encouraged.