Course Details
Country:
United Kingdom
Institution:
University of York
Course Title:
Queering the Popular Pitch
Course Number:
MUS00149C
Course Description:
Popular music, with its expansive definition and far-reaching audience, is a force for expressing queerness, creating and reinforcing norms, or sometimes all three. For a musicologist, it provides an invaluable window into what these norms are, and how queer narratives emerge and subvert them.
This module will introduce some of the key ideas in LGBTQ studies and queer theory, and use these to critically examine songs and genres, and their historical and social contexts, with an aim not only to understand the contexts of the individual songs, but a larger queer narrative in popular music.
Students are encouraged to find musical and written examples they find interesting, and there will be space to discuss or present these during seminars.
Language:
English
Approved Equivalent:
Pending For Approval
Course URL:
https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/MUS00149C/latest
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