Spring 2014 Dr. Glenda Goodman
Tuesday 5:00-7:50pm
MUS 319 Office: SOS 257
MUHL 681: Music, Nationalism, Transnationalism
Overview
How have theories of nation and nationalism play out in musical works and in musical communities? How does the relationship between music and nation change in transnational contexts? Using a variety scholarship on the topic as case studies, this course examines the theoretical approaches to musical nationalism and transnationalism. We will ask what accounts for the disciplinary division of music by national categories, and explore how the questions surrounding music and identity change when looking at pre- or post-national scenarios. The case studies are drawn from musicological and ethnomusicological scholarship on the 18th-century to today.
Expectations
Reading You are expected to come to class having done all of the readings for each week. Take thorough notes on the main argument, themes, and evidence for each reading, as well as any details that strike you as particularly noteworthy.
Writing Through weekly one-page response papers you will organize your thoughts about the readings. These response papers can be based on one of the pre-circulated discussion questions (see below) or on a topic of your choosing. Response papers are to be emailed to the class list by 5pm each Monday.
In addition to the weekly response papers you will prepare a substantial final essay for the class. An abstract of the essay and bibliography are due after Spring break. Each student will present a short version of the paper in the final class. Additional details about the essay will be discussed in class.
Discussion Our class time will be devoted entirely to discussion of the course materials. Each member of the class will take turns leading the seminar for half of our allotted time each week. The designated class leader will circulate discussion questions based on the readings by 5pm on Saturday.
Evaluation
Weekly response papers: 25%
Final essay: 25%
Final presentation: 10%
Participation and preparation: 40%
Required books
The following books are available at the USC bookstore. All other readings are available on ARES, Jstor, or are online through the USC library website.
Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origins and Spread of Nationalism. Revised edition. New York: Verso, 2006 [1983]
Philip Spencer and Howard Wollman, eds., Nations and Nationalism: a Reader. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2005.
Schedule
Jan. 14: Introduction
Jan. 21: National and transnational theories
Spencer and Wollman, Nations and Nationalism, 1-47
Richard Taruskin, “Nationalism” in New Grove Encyclopedia of Music
Linda Basch, Nina Glick Schiller, and Christina Szanton Blanc, “Transnational Projects: A New Perspective” (1994), 1-19 (ARES)
Unit I: Locating Nations
Jan. 28: Folk
Eric Hobsbawm, The Invention of Tradition (1983), 1-14
Matthew Gelbart, The Invention of “Folk Music” and “Art Music”: Emerging Categories from Ossian to Wagner (2007), 1-14, 80-110 (ARES)
Feb. 4: Creating and Critiquing the Imagined Community
Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism, revised ed. (2006), 1-82, 141-158
Spencer and Wollman, Nations and Nationalism, 237-248
Feb. 11: Anthems
Paul Nettl, “Nationalism and Music,” in National Anthems, Alexander Gode, trans. [2nd ed.], 1967 (ARES)
Caryl Clarke, “Forging Identity: Beethoven’s ‘Ode’ as European Anthem.” Critical Inquiry 23:4 (Summer 1997): 789-807 (Jstor)
Martin Daughtry, “Russia’s New Anthem and the Negotiation of National Identity.” Ethnomusicology 47:1 (2003), 42-67 (Jstor)
Robert James Branham, “‘Of Thee I Sing’: Contesting ‘America.’ American Quarterly 48:4 (1996), 623-652 (Jstor)
Feb. 18: Political Nationalism
Spencer and Wollman, Nations and Nationalism, 177-217
Philip Gossett, “Giuseppe Verdi and the Italian Risorgimento.” Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 156:3 (Sept. 2012), 271-282 (Jstor)
Thomas Turino, “Nationalism and Latin American Music: Selected Case Studies and Theoretical Considerations.” Latin American Music Review 24:2 (2003), 169-209 (Jstor)
Feb. 25: Cultural Nationalism and Identity
Celia Applegate and Pamela Potter, Music and German National Identity (2002), TBD
Michael Largey, Vodou Nation: Haitian Art Music and Cultural Nationalism (2006), 1-21 (ARES)
Unit II: Expanding the National Paradigm
Mar. 4: Sovereignty sans Nation?
Martha Feldman, Opera and Sovereignty: Transforming Myths in Eighteenth-Century Italy (2007), 1-41, 226-283 (ARES)
Philip V. Bohlman, The Music of European Nationalism: Cultural Identity and Modern History (2004), 209-275 (ARES)
Mar. 11: Colonialism and Empire
Spencer and Wollman, Nations and Nationalism, 135-173
Olivia Bloechl, Native American Song at the Frontiers of Early Modern Music (2008), 35-57, 109-141 (ARES)
March 18: Spring break
Mar. 25: Orientalism
Rachel Beckles Willson, Orientalism and Musical Mission: Palestine and the West (2013), 1-75 (ARES)
Edward Said, Orientalism (1978), 1-28 (ARES)
Edward Said, Culture and Imperialism (1993), 111-132 (ARES)
FINAL ESSAY ABSTRACT DUE
Unit III: Transcending the Nation
Apr. 1: Defining Music Transnationally
Françoise Lionnet and Shu-Mei Shih, Minor Transnationalism (2005), 1-26 (ARES)
C.A. Bayly, Sven Beckert, Matthew Connelly, Isabel Hofmeyr, Wendy Kozol, and Patricia Seed, “AHR Conversation: On Transnational History.” American Historical Review 111 (2006): 1441-1464 (Jstor)
Deborah Pacini Hernandez, “Musical Dialogues Between the Dominican Republic and New York: A Review Article,” Ethnomusicology 57:1 (Winter 2013): 143-151 (Jstor)
Apr. 8: Cosmopolitanism
Spencer and Wollman, Nations and Nationalism, 301-317
Dana Gooley et al, “Cosmopolitanism in the Age of Nationalism, 1848-1914,” Journal of the American Musicological Society 66:2 (Summer 2013), 523-549 (Jstor)
Thomas Turino, Nationalists, Cosmopolitans, and Popular Music in Zimbabwe (2000), 3-59 (ARES)
FINAL ESSAY BIBLIOGRAPHY DUE
Apr. 15: Localism and Diaspora
Kay Kaufman Shelemay, Let Jasmine Rain Down: Song and Remembrance among Syrian Jews (1998), 1-53 (ARES)
Paul Gilroy, The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness (1993), 1-40, 72-110 (ARES)
William Safran, “Diasporas in Modern Societies: Myths of Homeland and Return.” Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Studies 1:1 (Spring 1991): 83-99 (ARES)
Apr. 22: Blurred borders, geographic and disciplinary
Alejandro Madrid, ed., Transnational Encounters: Music and Performance at the U.S.-Mexico Border (2011), 1-16, 171-190 (ARES)
Shelley Fishkin, “Crossroads of Cultures: The Transnational Turn in American Studies.” American Quarterly 57: 1 (March 2005): 17-57 (Jstor)
Laura Briggs, Gladys McCormick, and J. T. Way, “Transnationalism: A Category of Analysis.” American Quarterly 60:3 (September 2008): 625-648 (Jstor)
Apr. 29: Presentations
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