MUSC 336 - Music, Gender, and Sexuality

Credit(s): 3
Lecture: 3
Non-Lecture: 0
A consideration of the relationships between musical practices, styles, and genres to notions of gender and sexuality. Offered under rotating subtitles, topics may include gender and musical genre; music, modernism, and sexuality; opera and queer theory/ opera and feminist criticism; and gender, sexuality and musical media. In addition to Musicological approaches to gender and sexuality studies, this course will also examine foundational texts in feminist theory, queer theory, as well as histories of gender and sexuality by authors such as Foucault, Butler, Sedgwick, and others. Offered regularly though not on a rotating basis.

Prerequisite(s): MUSC 227.