Music in Cultural Theory

7.5 credits

Course, Master's level, 5MU068

Autumn 2023 Autumn 2023, Uppsala, 50%, On-campus, English

About the course

This course approaches music as a cultural phenomenon from anthropological, historical and sociological premises. Different ways to grasp and understand musical processes, activities and practices are elucidated by a rich literature of cultural theories and perspectives, as well as different aesthetical and critical positions.

Central perspectives in the course include:

  • questions concerning the production of meaning in music by way of language
  • the elucidation and observation of codes for status, politics, power and matters of identity in music
  • the theoretical framing of mediated and live music as a cultural phenomenon, locally and globally
  • the study of different degrees and varieties of well-founded assumptions, positions, myths and canonisations in music.

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