Syllabus for:
Critical Studies in Music
 (MUSIC 235 and MUSIC 180)   
 University of California, Irvine
Fall Quarter, 2002

sources for reading assignments

Assigned readings for the seminar will be drawn primarily from five anthologies. Paperback editions of all five of these books will be available for purchase at the UCI bookstore, and UCI library copies of all five will be available as well on the instructor's reserve shelf at the Media Center of the Claire Trevor School of the Arts. Although students' ownership of these thought-provoking books is not required, it is certainly recommended. In alphabetical order according to title, the five anthologies that contain most of the required readings are:
Disciplining Music: Musicology and Its Canons, ed. Katherine Bergeron and Philip V.
Bohlman. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992.
Keeping Score: Music, Disciplinarity, Culture, ed. David Schwarz, Anahid Kassabian,
and Lawrence Siegel. Charlottsville, Virginia: University of Virginia Press, 1997.
Music and Society: The Politics of Composition, Performance and Reception, ed. Richard
Leppert and Susan McClary. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987.
Postmodern Music / Postmodern Thought, ed. Judy Lochhead and Joseph Auner.
New York and London: Routledge, 2002.
Rethinking Music, ed. Nicholas Cook and Mark Everist. Oxford: Oxford University 
Press, 1999.
Assigned readings will also be drawn from a large and diverse collection of books that most likely are not currently available at the UCI bookstore. All of these books, however, belong to the UCI library, and all of them will be available – like the five anthologies listed above – on the instructor's reserve shelf at the Media Center of the Claire Trevor School of the Arts. In alphabetical order according to author, the other required readings will be drawn from:
Adorno, Theodor. The Culture Industry, ed. J.M. Bernstein. London and New York: 
Routledge, 1991.
Babbitt, Milton. Words about Music, ed. Stephen Dembski and Joseph N. Strauss.
Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1987.
Benjamin, Walter. Illuminations: Essays and Reflections, ed. Hannah Arendt, trans. Harry 
Zohn. New York: Shocken Books, 1968.
Citron, Marcia J. Gender and the Musical Canon. Urbana: University of Illinois 
Press, 1993.
Kramer, Lawrence. Classical Music and Postmodern Knowledge. Berkeley: University of 
California Press, 1995.
McClary, Susan. Conventional Wisdom: The Content of Musical Form. Berkeley: 
University of California Press, 2000.
McClary, Susan. Feminine Endings: Music, Gender, and Sexuality. Minneapolis: 
University of Minnesota Press, 1991.
Rochberg, George. The Aesthetics of Survival: A Composer’s View of Twentieth-  
Century Music, ed. William Bolcom. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1984.
Subotnik, Rose Rosengard. Deconstructive Variations: Music and Reason in Western 
Society. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1996.
Subotnik, Rose Rosengard. Developing Variations: Style and Ideology in Western Music 
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1991.
Taylor, Timothy D.  Strange Sounds: Music, Technology, and Culture. London and 
New York: Routledge, 2001.
van den Toorn, Pieter C. Music, Politics, and the Academy.  Berkeley: University of 
California Press, 1995.
course outline