Organized by musicology graduate students and faculty, this workshop provides a forum in which current issues in aesthetics, criticism, and interpretation are explored. It is an endeavor which fosters discussions of research themes and topics that have not been significantly developed within the music department, and which entails significant dialogue between musicology and other disciplines in the humanities. Each quarter, the workshop studies a selection of texts, from secondary and primary sources, which reflect these trends. Sessions are devoted to discussing materials pertinent to a topic that relates to the larger theme. In addition, presentations on related topics, by a visiting speaker and a graduate student or faculty member, are planned for each term.

Readings:

2/25 Meeting: Timothy Taylor, Beyond Exocticism, 2007 (excerpt)

3/7 Meeting: Joseph Horowitz, Artists in Exile, 2008 (excerpt)

3/7 Meeting: Joseph Horowitz, Stravinsky program notes

4/14 Meeting: Duncan, Landscape of Priviledge, Intro

4/14 Meeting: Duncan, Landscape of Priviledge, Chapter 5

4/14 Meeting: Bourdieu, Social Space and Symbolic Space

5/7 Meeting: Kennaway, "Music as Pathogen"

5/12 Poiger, "Jazz and German Respectability"