Critical Studies in Music (MUS 235)
Michael Dessen, University of California, Irvine
Course Description
For this course, you are invited to explore new ways of thinking about music and culture. Rather than emphasize a single scholarly discipline or musical form, we will study writings by a wide range of researchers, philosophers and artists, and highlight questions that have shaped interdisciplinary discourses of music and cultural studies. Assignments will center around the readings, and will include presentations, brief written responses and take home essay exams.