Selected Topics (435-0-1)

Topic

What we get out of making music

Instructors

Ludger Dahm

Meeting Info

RCMA 1-176: Tues 2:00PM - 4:50PM

Overview of class

A consideration of the extramusical outcomes related to music participation and engagement. With readings spanning from ethnomusicology to childhood development, this seminar will give space to conceptualize the benefits and limitations of what music can offer, as drawn from these bodies of research and scholarship.

Registration Requirements

Graduate student or upper-level standing undergraduates.

Learning Objectives

● To give attention extramusical outcomes pertaining to music and its study
● To understand what empirical research supports in this regard
● To review scholarship and summarize findings pertaining to the course topic

Teaching Method

Readings, Discussion, Research

Evaluation Method

Marked progress on course objectives and a final project.

Class Materials (Required)

Collins, A. (2022). The Music Advantage: How Music Helps Your Child Develop, Learn, and Thrive. Penguin Publishing Group. ISBN 9780593421451 ($18)

Turino, T. (2008). Music as Social Life: The Politics of Participation. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 226816982 ($31)