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SoSe 20: Hearing History: The Cultural and Media History of U.S. Popular Music, 1890-1960

Steffen Just

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ONLINE COURSE - How can we understand history through music? What do (musical) sounds tell us about historical periods, places, and social formations? How are cultural power structures, identities, and discourses performed, articulated and negotiated through/in music? Sounds constitute as much of a historical source as do words, hence in this class, we will explore and develop answers to these questions by examining early twentieth-century U.S. history through the lens of popular music. We will familiarize ourselves with paradigms and methods from musicology and sound studies and connect these to discourses of media and cultural history. Through the nexus of (musical) sounds, media, and culture, we will identify innovative analytical frameworks and „alternative“ narratives. On a methodological level, the class will feature songs and sounds from the early twentieth century as a historical primary source and encourage students to study sound as history as part of their home assignments. Throughout the seminar, we will reflect on the possibility to study history not only through the written word, but also through sound and to understand sound as a new form of epistemology. Schließen

13 Termine

Regelmäßige Termine der Lehrveranstaltung

Di, 16:00 - 18:00 13 Termine

Di, 21.04.2020 16:00 - 18:00

Dozenten:
Steffen Just