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Music and Politics in 20th c Europe (HIST 315 F19)
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Syllabus
Reading & Listening
Week 1: Introduction
Week 2: Soviet Debates of the 1920s (Tues)
Week 2: Soviet Debates of the 1920s (Thurs)
Week 3: The Development of Socialist Realism (Tues)
Week 3: The Development of Socialist Realism (Thurs)
Week 4: The Musical Politics of Late Stalinism (Tues)
Week 4: The Musical Politics of Late Stalinism (Thurs)
Week 5: Sex and Satire in Nazi Germany (Thurs)
Week 6: Nazi Cultural Policy (Tues)
Week 6: Nazi Cultural Policy (Thurs)
Week 7: Nazi Germany: Making Claims, Making Do (Tues)
Week 7: Nazi Germany: Making Claims, Making Do (Thurs)
Week 9: Youth in the Cold War East
Wee 10 (Tues): Soviet Rock and Roll
Week 10 (Thurs): Youth in the Cold War West
Week 11 (Tues): Music and Identity/Glam Rock
Week 11 (Thurs): Music and Identity/Punk Rock
Week 12 (Thurs): Globalization/The Western Gaze
Week 13 (Tues): Collapsing Boundaries
Week 13 (Thurs): Post-Soviet Fantasies and Protests
Week 15 (Thurs): Eurovision
Week 16: Tourists and Refugees
Blog/Discussion Dates
Assignments
Rough Draft Peer Critique Groups and Instructions
Final Paper PROPOSAL Meetings
Final Paper RESEARCH MEETING Schedule
Final Paper Assignment
Midterm Creative Project Assignment and Schedule
Midterm Project Check-In Meetings
Kater, Composers of the Nazi Era: Reading Assignments
Midterm Projects
German Children’s Music During the Nazi Era
Marian Anderson in the Soviet Union (1935)
The Recoil of Repression in Post-Stalinist Music
Kailee Havrda – The Life of a Performer: Josephine Baker and Sam Wooding’s Chocolate Kiddies in America as Opposed to Europe
Marissa Whitby Midterm Project
Amanda Fitzpatrick – La Vie en Rose
George Harrison & Ravi Shankar’s Concert for Bangladesh
The Plastic People of the Universe (PPU)
Writing Resources
Last Day Party Sign Up!
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