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CFA ME 863: Seminar in Teaching College Music 3
the focus of Seminar 3 will be representing teaching effectiveness through the career cycle. This segment is based on the most current scholarship about effective, student-centered teaching, post0secondary demographics, and accreditation in higher education. This course will be offered for 10 hours with accompanying 5 hours of online preparation and discussion forums. 1cr -
CFA ME 899: Independent Project/Directed Study
Specialized, individually tailored and guided work on projects not connected with a thesis, dissertation or other terminal document, but of particular interest to the graduate student. Variable credit. -
CFA ME 921: Research and Directed Study in Music Education
All other courses must be completed prior to enrollment in ME921. A week-long residency on campus with faculty where students define a need for research, develop a research problem, think critically about theoretical frameworks, and discuss appropriate research strategies. -
CFA ME 990: CONTINUING STDY
This is a continuing studies course designed for graduate students who have not yet had their thesis or dissertation proposals approved. [0 cr] -
CFA ME 995: DMA DISSRTATION
This course is for DMA students who have passed their qualifying examinations, have had their dissertation proposals approved and are in the first semester of dissertation work. In subsequent semesters, students should register for ME996. [3 cr] -
CFA ME 996: DMA DISS CONT
Ongoing work toward completion of the DMA terminal project; dissertation, doctoral composition or comparable approved project. This is for students who ahve completed their first semester of dissertation work and are continuing to work toward completion of the degree. Students must register for ME996 in every semester through graduation. [0 cr] -
CFA MH 106: Music and Culture
Survey of music's dynamic interface with culture and society, past and present, including music's relationship to politics, race, religion, and identity. No preq. Open to all students. 2 cr. -
CFA MH 211: History & Literature of Music 1
Historical survey of music tracing the history, performance, cultural significance, and development of musical styles from the Middle Ages to approximately the end of the Baroque. Required for all students in the BM and BA Music routes This course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Historical Consciousness, Research and Information Literacy. -
CFA MH 212: History & Literature of Music 2
Historical survey of music from 1750 to the present. This course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Historical Consciousness. -
CFA MH 331: Music & Social Protest
No prereq; open to all students. Selected topics concerning non-western music and culture, including colonialism and post-colonialism, orientalism, anthropological perspectives, modernization, transmission, migration, diaspora, and the influence of technology. 3 cr. -
CFA MH 333: Popular Music & Culture
No prereq; open to all students. Selected topics exploring the relationship between popular music and culture, from American popular song and musical theatre, to worldbeat, blues, R&B, rock, Hip-hop, and techno. 3 cr. -
CFA MH 401: Graduate Music History Review 1
Review of music history and literature from the Middle Ages to 1750. 2 cr. -
CFA MH 402: Graduate Music History Review 2
Review of music history and literature from the ca. 1750 to the present. 2.0 cr. -
CFA MH 403: Latinos Making Music in the United States
What impact have Latinos and Latinas had on the popular music of the United States? More than you might think. Not only have Latinos in the United States been instrumental in creating globally popular Spanish-language music like salsa, norteno, and reggaeton, they are also central, if usually unacknowledged, in the histories of jazz, rock and hip hop. The history of US music is usually told as the story of interactions between black and white Americans, so what does a multi-ethnic, multi-lingual music history reveal about music in the United States? To answer these questions, we will trace the participation of Latinos, alongside other ethnic groups, in the creation of US popular music from the 19th to the 21st centuries, surveying the musical styles of Latinos in the US and discussing the role of these musics in articulating race, class, gender and sexual identities for US Latinos, their circulation along migration routes, their role in identity politics and ethnic marketing, and their commercial crossover to Anglo audiences. But then, what is Latino in the first place? Many Latinos are of Mexican descent, others from the Caribbean, and others from elsewhere. Some are Spanish-dominant and some only speak English. Some have been here for generations an others arrived last year. Some have been reticent to highlight their Latino identities, and others have put Latino identity and identity politics at the center of their musical projects. How do these different ways of being Latino manifest themselves in musical activities and musical taste? and how, since the early 2000s boom of Latin artists like Shakira, Enrique Iglesias, and Jennifer Lopez, has the music industry sought to market to all of them? Above all, how can we tell these stories in all their richness and complexity? Case studies may include Mexican-American/Chicano, Puerto Rican/Nuyorican and Cuban/American musics; Latin music in golden age Hollywood; Latin dance crazes from mambo to the Macarena; rock en espanol; reggaeton, race politics, and the creation of the "Hurban" market; and the transnational Latin music industries of Los Angeles, New York, and Miami. 4cr -
CFA MH 405: French Modernisms
In this course, we will explore the various types of aesthetic modernisms in France, covering roughly the fin de si?cle through the Fourth Republic (which ended in 1958). Rather than moving by genre of Western art music (opera, ballet, and so forth) we will group our study under larger cultural topics (technologies, spectacles, leisure). Underpinning our historical study of France during this period is an interrogation of the term "modernism" itself. This course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Historical Consciousness, Writing-Intensive Course. -
CFA MH 406: Ninteenth-Century Virtuosos
Are virtuosos a different order, separate from proficient and even excellent musicians? Is virtuosity admirable, or a quality only a philistine would venerate? Perhaps something in between? In this course, we will broach these and other questions in the context of the nineteenth century. In its broadest iteration, the objective of this course is to historicize the different guises of virtuosity, and thus to encourage you to develop your own critical apparatus for reading, writing, and thinking about issues of virtuosity. This course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Historical Consciousness, Writing-Intensive Course. -
CFA MH 407: Sonic and Visual Culture and Modern East Asia
This is a course about music as sonic and visual culture. Focusing on East Asian cultures in the Boston Area, students in the course will explore a diverse range of sounds, images and ideas across geographies. This course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Social Inquiry I, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Research and Information Literacy. -
CFA MH 408: Bob Dylan: Music and Words
This course will examine Bob Dylan's music and lyrics from 1962 to 1975 in the context of his life, artistic influences, and milieu. We will explore the wealth of criticism and reaction his songs have inspired, paying special attention to questions concerning the nature of his art-for example, his dependence on musical tradition or the relationship between song lyrics and poetry-and past and current critical discussion about his legacy. 4cr -
CFA MH 427: Special Topics in Music History
Prereq: CFA MH 211 and 212. Special topics in the history of music, covering a variety of approaches, styles, and periods, from Antiquity through the present. 4 cr. -
CFA MH 428: Opera
Prereq: CFA MH 211 and 212. Special topics and surveys in opera history from its beginnings, ca. 1600, to the present, focusing on major works, libretti, productions, and music / text relationships 4 cr.
