Sexing Sound Art

MUSI
UN
3153
Course Level: 
Undergraduate
Credits: 
3

This course explores sound-based creative practices as sites where gender, race, and sexuality are always, and sometimes explicitly, negotiated. We will study contemporary sound art that variously speaks to inequalities in canon-formation, participates in human rights movements of the late 20th and 21st centuries, and suggests feminist and queer readings of everyday sonic praxis. Readings in feminist theory, critical theory, art history, musicology, and media studies will guide in-class discussion of artworks accessed through online archives and New York-based installations. The seminar will address the following questions: what role do sound-based creative practices play in re-/de-/forming raced, gendered, and sexual subjects? Can sound be feminist, queer, anti-racist, Afrofuturist? How should theorists of race, gender, and sexuality address sound in and out of the arts? Open to all majors.

Past Offerings

Fall 2015 – Section 3

Day & Time: 
W 10:10am-12:00pm
Location: 
754 EXT Schermerhorn Hall
Instructor: