DISCOURSE
and MUSIC
This course explores the relationship between musical
"discourse" and verbal / kinesic discourse (including dance), seeking
to extract rules that are common to both, to place both in a common performance
frame, and to describe the ways in which music on occasion attempts to emulate
spoken communication and speech on occasion attempts to emulate music, as well
as the ways that people speak about music in their verbal discourse, or "play"
speech musically. Crucial to the
perspective taken here is the notion of performance, corollaries to which are
interpretation in context and culture construction through performance.
Week 1 What is speech? What is Music? To which
category does chanting belong?
How
does dance fit in musically, communicatively?
Creativity and
Novelty in Speech and in Music
Week 2 Gender and Sex
in speech and in music, dance
Week 3 Social
segmentation – (caste, class, race) in
speech and in music
Week 4 Classification in Speech and Music:
genres, instruments, situations,
Oratory,
Recitation, Joking, …..
Jazz,
Classical, Pop, R&B, R&R, Alternative, Rock, Acid Rock, World,
Week 5 Instruments
of speech (vocal auditory channel, telephonic, computer, writing)
Musical
instruments (piano, guitar, bass, ….)
Dance
instruments (body, other accoutrements)
Week 6 The different
natures of communication through speech and music
Music
and speech in space and time
Trance,
dance, and possession in music and speech
(cf. Kapchan)
Week 7 Speaking of
Music, and Musical renditions of speech
Week 8 Analyzing
speech and music structurally
Week 9 Speech and
Music in Religion
Week 10 Acquisition
of competence in speaking and musicianship
Week 11 Preferences
and Taboos in Speech and Music
Week 12 Identity
Issues w/ speech and music
Week 13 Power and
persuasion in speech and in music
Week 14 Curing
with speech, curing with music
(Bribri, Kuna)
Bibliography
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10/13/2004