MUSIC 7320 - [Listening and Audio Cultures]

(crosslisted) AMST 7320, COML 6999, LSP 6320, SPAN 6320

Fall. Next offered 2016-2017. 4 credits. Letter grades only.

A. Madrid.

This seminar focuses on the political economy of sound and listening in the configuration of urban space in Latin America and among Latino communities in the U.S. The city will be approached from a multidisciplinary perspective centered on the experience of sound and listening as a critical component in the performance of the social, cultural, political, and ethnic subjectivities and objectivities of the urban.