Approaches to Music - Class Schedule

Week 1: Functionalism

Tuesday January 6
Thursday January 8

Week 2: Ritualism & Religious Hermeneutics

Tuesday January 13
Thursday January 15 Kenneth Hull, "Text, Music, and Meaning in Congregational Song"

Week 3: Evolutionism & Memetics

Tuesday January 20 Steven Pinker, "The Language Instinct," "The Blank Slate"
Thursday January 22 Richard Dawkins, "Memes and Cultural Evolution"

Week 4: Cognitivism & Idiomaticism

Tuesday January 27 R.O. Gjerdingen, "Psychology of Music"
Thursday January 29 D. Huron, "Musical Idioms / Musical Values

Week 5: Anthropology & Fashion

Tuesday February 3 Judith Becker "Trance"
Thursday February 5 Quentin Bell "On Human Finery"

Week 6: Commercialism

Tuesday February 10
Thursday February 12 Dave VanStone, WBNS-FM Radio, Columbus

Week 7: Marxism - Socialist Realism & Anglo Marxism

Tuesday February 17
Thursday February 19 Margarita Mazo, "Socialist Realism"

Week 8: Marxism - Critical Theory/Frankfurt School

Tuesday February 24
Thursday February 26

Week 9: Postmodernism

Tuesday March 2
Thursday March 4

Week 10: Feminism

Tuesday March 9
Thursday March 11