This course is an examination of the music of the Beatles within social, economic, historical, and artistic contexts of the 1960s. Using recordings, films, and written material we will examine the Beatles, their artistic circles, and their fans and detractors as significant historical actors.We will examine how the Beatles used elements of music and poetry in creating their musical works; how others, including producers and recording engineers, contributed to that creation; and how listeners in the UK and the US experienced their music in the past, and continue to experience it today.

GE-approved course

History of music and cinema, particularly ways music is used to produce meanings in conjunction with visual image.

GE-approved Course.

In this course you will survey groove-based electrified dance music from its origins in 1960s pop and soul to present, covering disco, house, techno, ambient, rave and jungle. This course will emphasize the interaction of technology, musical structures, psychoactive drugs, and club cultures to induce altered states of musical consciousness; promise (versus the reality of) political and spiritual transformation; electronic dance music as new art music.

GE-approved course.

In this course, you will analyze the forms, practices, and meanings of rock and roll music, broadly conceived, from its origin to the present. This course will include an emphasis on how this music has reflected and influenced changes in sexual, racial, and class identities and attitudes.

GE-approved course

In this course, you will survey English-language popular music in the 20th century, with a focus on lesbians, gay men, and members of other sexual minorities as creators, performers, and audience members.

GE-approved course. 

Analysis of gender ideologies in several musical cultures; representations of gender, body, and sexuality by both male and female musicians; contributions of women to Western art and popular musics; methods in feminist and gay/lesbian theory and criticism.

GE-approved course

In this course you will learn specific skills, incorporating technical description, historical contextualization, subjective reaction, and the certain stylistic conventions necessary in writing about music.

Formerly numbered Music History 12W. Letter grading.
Enforced requisite: English Composition 3 or 3H or English as a Second Language 36.
Satisfies Writing II requirement.