Ethnomusicology 279: Systematic Musicology
Instructor: Roger Savage
Office: 2675 Schoenberg Hall
Office Hours: Thursday 1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
email: rsavage@ucla.edu |
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"[C]ulture indicates that art and politics, their conflicts and tensions notwithstanding, are interrelated and even mutually dependent. . . . The common element connecting art and politics is that they both are phenomena of the public world."
-- Hannah Arendt, Between Past and Future
Course Description
The nexus of aesthetics with politics has a varies history. Debates among Frankfurt School critical theorists attest to the sometimes-contentious discussions over the politicization of music and art. The debate between Walter Benjamin and Theodor W. Adorno concerning the politicization of aesthetics provides a starting point from which to revisit the relation between art as politics. In this course, we will investigate different critiques of the role judgments of taste play in enforcing social distinction or as the analogue of political judgment. This investigation will lead to a renewed consideration of the phenomenon of culture, aesthetic experience and political action.
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