(WGSS 102) Women, Music, and Society

3 Credits

This course explores how women have expressed their agency, authorship, worldview, and power through music, and how women have used music to navigate their place in social contexts throughout history. Students engage with representations of womanhood in music in a variety of ways, including the contributions of women as performers, composers, conductors, patrons, and teachers; the portrayal of women in opera, musical theater, and contemporary popular music; expressions of gender and sexuality in music; and feminist perspectives in musical criticism. Attribute/Distribution: CC, HE, HU