MU 660
The Public Musician
This seminar investigates connections between musicians and identity, guiding students to
conduct research on particular themes and their synthesis and application to given creative
projects. The application of critical and cultural lenses (from MU 620 and/or including:
ethnicity, ideology, race, sexuality, gender, queerness, class, as well as lenses from
particular First Nations groups) is intended to provide students with the methodological
skills to define the artist’s identity and public. Such examination will allow students to
explore their own positionality in order to understand what function their creative work may
potentially have and for what audiences. The ‘public’ will be rooted in and grow from
time/place/community and cohort in order to offer multiple perspectives (transgender rights
groups, political activist groups, diasporic organizations, national or regional organizations).
Modules include: narrative and form; identifying and seeking audiences; responsible and
ethical curation from varied cultural perspectives (Western and non-Western); grant writing
and opportunities for funding; writing proposals on imagined or possible projects.
This seminar investigates connections between musicians and identity, guiding students to
conduct research on particular themes and their synthesis and application to given creative
projects. The application of critical and cultural lenses (from MU 620 and/or including:
ethnicity, ideology, race, sexuality, gender, queerness, class, as well as lenses from
particular First Nations groups) is intended to provide students with the methodological
skills to define the artist’s identity and public. Such examination will allow students to
explore their own positionality in order to understand what function their creative work may
potentially have and for what audiences. The ‘public’ will be rooted in and grow from
time/place/community and cohort in order to offer multiple perspectives (transgender rights
groups, political activist groups, diasporic organizations, national or regional organizations).
Modules include: narrative and form; identifying and seeking audiences; responsible and
ethical curation from varied cultural perspectives (Western and non-Western); grant writing
and opportunities for funding; writing proposals on imagined or possible projects.
This seminar investigates connections between musicians and identity, guiding students to
conduct research on particular themes and their synthesis and application to given creative
projects. The application of critical and cultural lenses (from MU 620 and/or including:
ethnicity, ideology, race, sexuality, gender, queerness, class, as well as lenses from
particular First Nations groups) is intended to provide students with the methodological
skills to define the artist’s identity and public. Such examination will allow students to
explore their own positionality in order to understand what function their creative work may
potentially have and for what audiences. The ‘public’ will be rooted in and grow from
time/place/community and cohort in order to offer multiple perspectives (transgender rights
groups, political activist groups, diasporic organizations, national or regional organizations).
Modules include: narrative and form; identifying and seeking audiences; responsible and
ethical curation from varied cultural perspectives (Western and non-Western); grant writing
and opportunities for funding; writing proposals on imagined or possible projects.