MUSIC 7260 - Global Performance

(crosslisted)
(also LSP 7260)

Fall. 4 credits.

Co-meets with LSP 4260/MUSIC 4260.

A. Madrid.

The field of performance studies provides a rich conceptual framework to understand a wide variety of phenomena, from activities that explicitly involve performance (eg. music, dance, theater, ritual) to discursive, social, and political performativity (eg. the construction of identities, the enunciative use of language, political activism, and the use of the body in everyday life).This seminar focuses on globalization and its impact on cultural production in the Americas, drawing on the particular insights of performance studies into these phenomena.