MUSI 008D. (Dis)ability: Perceptions and Music

LING 008.
This course is an examination of the nature of music, approached from a disability perspective. We include music with regard to the ear, the eye, bodily movement, the somatosensory system, and neurodiversity. The issues are to a great extent biological/cognitive, but interpretable via culture. We explore what notions such as rhythm, pitch, timbre, melody, dynamics, and the like mean in a variety of contexts, asking what similarities and differences there are between, for example

ordinary expression and artistic expression
musical arts and language arts
music and poetry
music and dance

We consider these questions in a context of whether there exists a differentiating line and according to which people: autism, blindness, deafness … how do these ways of being affect musicking? The music vs. poetry differentiation is of particular relevance to the deaf community and the music vs. dance differentiation is of particular relevance in indigenous contexts.

Eligible for Global Studies and Interpretation Theory.
HU
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Eligible for GLBL, INTP
Spring 2024. Kochavi. Napoli.

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