Graduate Courses

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Official Course Outlines will be distributed at the first class of the term.

Fall 2022-Winter 2023

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PROFESSOR: James Wright
DESCRIPTION: This is a seminar course about research in all of its aspects as applied to Music and Culture. As such, it involves consideration of both the “why” and “how” of research in our broad field. The course falls roughly into two sections: the first weeks introduce the theoretical concepts behind research and the practical discussion of general sources and resources, research involving human subjects, writing up research results and submitting proposals; the remaining weeks present issues and methods for research in various sub-fields of musical scholarship (including cultural studies, music and media studies, popular music studies, historical musicology, empirical musicology, ethnomusicology, and “systematic” musicology, among other approaches).
METHOD OF EVALUATION: Seminar participation (20%); Research paper proposal (5%); Research paper (20%); December Research Presentation (15%); 10 weekly reading-journal submissions (20%); Smaller Seminar Presentations (10%); Full Attendance at all Friday MCGSS Graduate Colloquia Talks and Spring Grad Symposium (5%); Completion of online TCPS-2 CORE ethics course (5%)
READINGS: Course text (Sang-Hie Lee, Scholarly Research in Music, 2nd ed’n, Routledge, 2022), and weekly assigned readings (posted on Brightspace).

PROFESSOR: Ellen Waterman
DESCRIPTION: Selected debates within contemporary theory and culture and their relevance to music. The focus will be on a limited range of debates and issues selected by the instructor for in-depth discussion and analysis.
METHOD OF EVALUATION: TBA
READINGS: TBA

PROFESSOR: Jesse Stewart
DESCRIPTION: In this combined fourth-year undergraduate and graduate level seminar, we will examine a variety of key issues in the study of jazz including history/historiography, race, gender, class, politics, nationality, improvisation, performance, analysis, meaning, and more. By critically examining the ways in which these issues have intersected with one another historically and with “jazz” (broadly construed), we will explore jazz not only as a form of musical discourse, but also as a site for community building, identity formation, civic dialogue, and political action.
METHOD OF EVALUATION: Participation and weekly reading response questions (20%); 3 “pop-quiz” listening tests (15%); Research essay proposal (10%); In-class presentation of research project (15%); Written feedback on student presentations (10%); Final Essay (30%)
READINGS: TBA

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