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Performing Popular Music (323-0-1)

Instructors

Madeleine Le Cesne

Meeting Info

Wirtz 235 Seminar Room 1: Mon, Wed 3:30PM - 4:50PM

Overview of class

What does the music we reach for, the sounds we can't get out of our heads, teach us about desire—our personal desires as well as the nature of desire itself. In this course, we will take up hyperpop and techno as means of investigating desire as a phenomenon. That is, how do our experiences of hyperpop and techno illuminate questions and lessons about why and how we want what we want, and, conversely, how desire materializes in the realm of the sonic. This interdisciplinary course will explore texts from a diverse range of fields including Performance Studies, Phenomenology, Psychoanalysis, Sexuality Studies, and Affect Theory. Students can expect to engage with performances from artists such as SOPHIE, Charli XCX, fka twigs, and klein among others. This course will culminate in a final creative writing exercise.