Music Final Paper

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