SSWI-276T Music,Creativity, and Consumption
3 Credits
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SSWI-276T-01
Friday
2:00 pm â 4:50 pm
North Hall, 112
This interdisciplinary course examines the relationship between musical practice and cultural criticism through the lens of perspectives on what constitutes the "authentic" and "inauthentic" creation, expression, and consumption of music, and the social, cultural, and critical concerns that underpin them, across a range of genres including western classical music, jazz, improvisation, pop, rock, serialism, and electronica. Topics are drawn from philosophy, musicology, critical theory, cognitive science, legal theory, and music criticism, and include creativity and the mind, creativity and the body; style, race, and genre; silence and noise; originality and copyright; and consumption, technology and the music industry.