Lehrende/r: Dr. Dorothea Gail
Veranstaltungsart: Seminar
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Semesterwochenstunden: 2
Credits: 8,0
Unterrichtssprache: Englisch
Min. | Max. Teilnehmerzahl: - | 32
Anmeldegruppe: S 410 AS
Prioritätsschema: Senatsrichtlinie Zulassung gemäß Richtlinie über den Zugang zu teilnahmebeschränkten Lehrveranstaltungen vom 07. März 2007. Nähere Informationen hierzu entnehmen Sie bitte www.info.jogustine.uni-mainz.de/senatsrichtlinie
Inhalt: This American cultural studies class will focus on the significance of music in communicating messages, reflecting geography and providing meaning for individuals in multiple-communities or subcultures. We will focus on select examples of musics all across the United States: the transnational aspect of Detroit Techno with its Detroit-Berlin connection and its inherent African-American origin, the multiple-identities of Native Americans and Chicanos in cross-over music in the Southwest, the close-knit community of classical music and music lovers in New England and their European ties, advertisement music and fast food in the Deep South and the contemporary music and worship culture of Christians in and around megachurches in Chicagoland. We will have a close look at how regionalism of these musics and their transnational outreach are going together. We will use cultural studies methods and approaches reaching from Thomas Frank to Stuart Hall and George Lipsitz to understand questions of identity, authenticity and music as a commodity.
