Performing Popular Music (323-0-1)

Instructors

Madeleine Le Cesne

Meeting Info

Parkes Hall 223: Mon, Wed 3:30PM - 4:50PM

Overview of class

This course is available for undergraduate students only. Graduate students may not register for this course. What are the emotional landscapes of the U.S. settler colonial state, and how do they show up in our own bodies? How does pop music both implicate us as settlers/settler colonial subjects and help us work through these feelings towards decolonial futures? This course will examine these questions via the discography of American singer-songwriter Lana Del Rey, whose body of work mines the emotional history of Americana. Using Del Rey as a case study, this course considers the role of performance in building archives of emotion and mobilizing decolonial, abolitionist ethics. This class will culminate in a final multi-media project.