Department of Performing Arts
Millsaps College | Jackson, MS

Senior Seminar in Music
CORE 10: Music 4900

Spring 2009

Course Materials

Listening selections will be accessible in the SR SEMINAR playlist on NetJuke (available only from campus). Reading assignments will be from handouts, journal databases (from the library site), and books on reserve in the Millsaps Library. These will be selected from the following list [in chronological order by publication, to give a sense of the debate]:

  • Kerman, Joseph. Contemplating Music: Challenges to Musicology (Harvard, 1985)
  • Van den Toorn, Pieter. Music, Politics, and the Academy (U of Calif., 1991)
  • Kramer, Lawrence. Music as Cultural Practice (U of Calif., 1993)
  • Cook, Susan and Judy Tsou, eds. Cecilia Reclaimed: Feminist Perspectives (U of Illinois, 1993)
  • Brett, Philip, ed. Queering the Pitch: The New Gay and Lesbian Musicology (Routledge, 1994)
  • Bergeron, Katherine, and Philip Bohlman, eds. Disciplining Music: Musicology and Its Canons (U of Chicago, 1996)
  • Kramer, Lawrence. Classical Music and Postmodern Knowledge (U of Calif., 1996)
  • Citron, Marcia J. Gender and the Musical Canon (U of Illinois, 2000)
  • McClary, Susan. Conventional Wisdom: The Content of Musical Form (U of Calif., 2001)
  • Kramer, Lawrence. Musical Meaning: Toward a Critical History (U of Calif., 2001)
  • Dell'Antonio, Andrew. Beyond Structural Listening?: Postmodern Modes of Hearing (U of Calif., 2004)