Listening to the World: The Cultural Power of Sound (FYS)
ANTH 112F
Fall 2019
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Sound plays an important, but often overlooked, part in our sense and understanding of the world. How do sounds make meaning? How does what we hear affect what we know? In what ways is listening different from watching? Drawing from cultural anthropology, philosophy, ethnomusicology, human geography, architecture, cultural studies, experimental art criticism, media, performance, and sound studies, this course will explore strategies for writing about and representing aural stimuli. We will "sound" these strategies against an archive of music videos; rap, pop, and electronic music from around the world; urban and rural soundscapes; film soundtracks; as well as contemporary performance and sound art that foreground sonic experimentation. Students will be encouraged to develop ethnographic skills that experiment with what it means to listen to, research, and write about soundscapes and culture, and are invited to experiment with different forms for assignments, including spoken word, podcasts, and other kinds of live and recorded sounds. |
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| Credit: 1 |
Gen Ed Area Dept:
SBS ANTH |
| Course Format: Seminar | Grading Mode: Student Option |
| Level: UGRD |
Prerequisites: None |
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Fulfills a Requirement for: (MUST-MN) |
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Past Enrollment Probability: Not Available |
| SECTION 01 | | Special Attributes: FYS |
Major Readings: Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore
Readings may include: Jonathan Sterne, Sound Studies Reader; Deborah Kapchan, Theorizing Sound Writing; Jennifer Lynn Stoever, The Sonic Color Line; Ana Maria Ochoa-Gautier, Aurality: Listening and Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century Colombia; performances by Tashweesh, Carsten Nicolai, Mazen Kerbaj, at the Volksbühne, and theatrical texts by Samuel Beckett and Sophocles
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Examinations and Assignments:
Students keep a class journal, participate in online and in class discussions, write a scaffolded composition, participate in a presentation of that composition in a (live) format of their choosing |
| Instructor(s): El Zein,Rayya Times: ..T.R.. 01:20PM-02:40PM; Location: ZLKA202; |
| Total Enrollment Limit: 15 | | SR major: X | JR major: X | | |
| Seats Available: 0 | GRAD: X | SR non-major: X | JR non-major: X | SO: X | FR: 15 |
| Drop/Add Enrollment Requests | | | | | |
| Total Submitted Requests: 1 | 1st Ranked: 0 | 2nd Ranked: 0 | 3rd Ranked: 0 | 4th Ranked: 0 | Unranked: 1 |
| SECTION 02 | | Special Attributes: FYS |
Major Readings: Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore
Same as Section 01 Above |
| Examinations and Assignments: Same as Section 01 Above |
| Instructor(s): El Zein,Rayya Times: ..T.R.. 02:50PM-04:10PM; Location: ZLKA202; |
| Total Enrollment Limit: 15 | | SR major: X | JR major: X | | |
| Seats Available: 2 | GRAD: X | SR non-major: X | JR non-major: X | SO: X | FR: 15 |
| Drop/Add Enrollment Requests | | | | | |
| Total Submitted Requests: 1 | 1st Ranked: 0 | 2nd Ranked: 1 | 3rd Ranked: 0 | 4th Ranked: 0 | Unranked: 0 |
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