All Courses
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ARCH 509 005 FA 2018
This seminar begins with an overview of “street-literature” (the literary genre that grew out of the modern city, influenced by its capture on film) in order to examine whose voice or gaze has the authority to describe the public sphere, and how these narratives are constructed as dominant, or disseminated as alternative point-of-views. The rest of the semester is spent investigating the performativity of diverse perspectives in imaging the city, understanding “imaging” as a sequenced cycle of occupation (belonging), observation (the gaze), representation (textual and visual), and production (inclusive place making). We trace the lingering presence of 19th-century attitudes both in our present conceptions of urban images and onto the urban flesh, and pursue means to willfully inscript an other gaze upon the city. Divided between historical analysis and creative production, the seminar engages the character of the flâneuse as writer, painter, photographer, cartographer, and the authority of her gaze as cultural apparatus, in order to uphold a contemporary mode of urban image production specific to, rather than concealing of, its subjects. Understanding the city as the locus of the "theatrum mundi," the seminar borrows from interdisciplinary theoretical fields including film theory and visual studies, feminist performance theory, and urban design. We question the status of the subject in the production of the city and examine whether the rampant proliferation and circulation of photographs has transformed the status of the subject or reinforced the normativity of dominant narrative forms.
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THEORY 533 002 FA 2018
MT 533, is an introduction to analytical approaches to music of the 20th century. The course is based on a foundation of observational and interpretive skills developed in relation to tonal music. In addition, since significant changes in aesthetic outlook developed over the late 19th, and early 20th century, the attributes of musical works changed, and theoretical practices have developed to address these changes. The course will introduce these ideas as they are needed to understand the music.
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HISTART 431 001 FA 2018
Made in Detroit: A History of Art and Culture in the Motor City Histart 431/Amcult 433