MU807
DSST 9: Music, Songwriting, Listening and Leisure
0.5 Credit
Music, including creating through songwriting, listening, and actively participating, has been a vital part of leisure activity across time and cultures. Contemporary commodification, commercialization, and consumerism however, have created a chasm between conceptualizations of music-making and numerous realities in our world.
Focus topics include:
- music listening as a form of leisure in community settings/health care facilities
- songwriting as a form of personal expression through lyrics and music
- therapeutic music listening as music psychotherapy practice
- music making and leisure as a serious concern for, amongst others, policy makers, scholars, and educators who perhaps risk eliding ways in which music—a vital part of human existence—is integrated into the everyday lives of people
- literature from General Sociology, Music Sociology, and the Sociology of Music Education in order to elaborate on the broader notion of agency, as well as the more field-specific concept of musical agency.
- various music-related agency modes through experiences of participating in, leading, and observing leisure-time music activities.
- binary opposition between recreational music production and music consumption
Students are given opportunities to reflect their own research in collaborative contexts with peers and faculty.
