Yale University - Music and Social Action
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Duration | 26 hours |
Total fee | Free |
Mode of learning | Online |
Official Website | Explore Free Course  |
Credential | Certificate |
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- Approx. 26 hours to complete
- English Subtitles: French, Portuguese (European), Russian, English, Spanish
Music and Social Action at Coursera Course details
- What is a musician?s response to the condition of the world? Do musicians have an obligation and an opportunity to serve the needs of the world with their musicianship?
- At a time of crisis for the classical music profession, with a changing commercial landscape, a shrinking audience base, and a contraction in the number of professional orchestras, how does a young musician construct a career today? Are we looking at a dying art form or a moment of reinvigoration?
- In this course we will develop a response to these questions, and we will explore the notion that the classical musician, the artist, is an important public figure with a critical role to play in society.
- The course will include inquiry into a set of ideas in philosophy of aesthetics; a discussion about freedom, civil society, and ways that art can play a role in readying people for democracy; discussion on philosophy of education as it relates to the question of positive social change; and an exploration of musical and artistic initiatives that have been particularly focused on a positive social impact.
- Guiding questions for this course inquiry will include:
- - How can classical music effect social change?
- - How has music made positive change in communities around the globe?
- - What can the field of classical music learn from other movements for social change?
- - How have educators and philosophers thought about the arts and their connection to daily contemporary life?
- Each class will explore one critical question through lectures, discussions, interviews, or documentaries.
Music and Social Action at Coursera Curriculum
Welcome to Music and Social Action
Welcome to Music and Social Action
Introduction to the course
Course Overview
Meet Your Instructors!
Readings and Resources
Grading and Logistics
What is Art and How Do We Experience It?
2.1 - An introduction to Dewey and Greene
2.2 - Making and perceiving art as a human impulse
2.3 - The aesthetic dimension and openings
2.4 - Ways of seeing: how does an artistic outlook change the way we see the world?
Dewey's Aesthetics
The John Dewey Society
(Optional) Art as Experience by John Dewey Chapters 1 and 2
(Optional) Releasing the Imagination: Essays on Education, the Arts, and Social Change by Maxine Greene
The Maxine Greene Center for Aesthetic Education and Social Imagination
(Optional) The dialectic of freedom by Maxine Greene
Flow, the secret to happiness
(Optional) Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
(Optional) The Aesthetic Dimension by Herbert Marcuse
The Barnes Foundation
What Is Art and How Do We Experience It?
Democracy and the Arts, Part 1
3.1 - Democracy and the arts, Part I
3.2 - What is the role of the arts in a free society?
3.3 - Art as a way of understanding the world
3.4 - Civil Society and Freedom: what do we mean by freedoms in a democracy?
3.5 - Regard for Otherness: Maxine Greene and civil society
3.6 - Discussion about Dewey, Maxine Greene, conceptions of freedom and the arts
Dream Songs: The Music of the March on Washington
(Optional) Art as Experience by John Dewey (Chapter 14)
Imagining Art + Social Change
Music & Civil Society: A Symphony in the Making
Elements of the Philosophy of Right by G.W. Hegel
(Optional) Civil Society: Old Images, New Visions by John Keane
Democracy and the Arts, Part I
Democracy and the Arts, Part II
4.1 - Democracy and the Arts, Part II
4.2 - The New Deal
4.3 - John F. Kennedy's ideal
4.4 - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and his dream
4.5 - Discussion about President Kennedy, Dr. King, social imagination
(Optional) A people's art history of the United States: 250 years of activist art and artists working in social justice movements
The New Deal Stage: Selections from the Federal Theatre Project 1935-1939
(Optional) ?American Resources in the Arts? by Holger Cahill
Remarks by John F. Kennedy at Amherst College (audio recording and transcript)
(Optional) All of This Music Belongs to the Nation: The WPA?s Federal Music Project and American Society by Kenneth Bindas
Martin Luther King, Jr. ?I Have a Dream.?
Democracy and the Arts, Part II
Arts and Urban Renewal
5.1 - Introduction to the class
5.2 - How the arts change cities/neighborhoods
5.3 - Conversations with directors of Providence and New Haven organizations
5.4 - Conversation with Jamie Bennett of ArtPlace America
Arts Organizations featured throughout this module
(Optional) The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs
A Marvelous Order: An opera about Robert Moses and Jane Jacobs
The Power Walker by Charles McGrath
(Optional) Master builder of New York City by Robert Moses
(Optional) The battle of Lincoln Square: neighbourhood culture and the rise of resistance to urban renewal by Samuel Zipp
(Optional) West Side Story by Leonard Bernstein, Arthur Laurents, Stephen Sondheim, Jerome Robbins
Somewhere by Matthew Lopez
Arts and Urban Renewal
20th Century Artists and Social Commitment
6.1 - Pablo Casals, conscience and country
6.2 - Bronislaw Huberman, Europe and Palestine in the 1930s
6.3 - Yehudi Menuhin and taking political action
6.4 - Discussion about Casals and Huberman
What Happened, Miss Simone? (Netflix Documentary)
(Optional) "I Don't Trust You Anymore": Nina Simone, Culture, and Black Activism in the 1960s by Ruth Feldstein
Billie Holiday - Strange Fruit
(Optional) Harlem Nocturne: Women Artists and Progressive Politics During World War II
(Optional) Joys and Sorrows: Reflections by Pablo Casals by Pablo Casals and Albert Kahn
(Optional) Orchestra of Exiles by Josh Aronson
(Optional) "The Other West Side Story: Urbanization and the Arts Meet at the Lincoln Center" by Julia Foulkes
(Optional) The sound of freedom : Marian Anderson, the Lincoln Memorial, and the concert that awakened America by Raymond Arsenault
"Marian Anderson Sings at the Lincoln Memorial" Newreel Story
(Optional) Sounds of the New Deal : the Federal Music Project in the West by Peter Gough
(Optional) Pablo Casals : a cry for peace by Robert Snyder
21st Century Artists and Social Commitment
7.1 - 21st Century Artists and Social Commitment
7.2 - Conversation with pianist Jonathan Biss
7.3 - Barenboim and the West Eastern Divan Orchestra
7.4 - Ai Wei Wei and protest through art making
7.5 - Conversation with pianist Vijay Iyer
(Optional) An Orchestra Beyond Borders: Voices of the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra by Elena Cheah
(Optional) Knowledge is the Beginning by Paul Smaczny
(Optional) Music Quickens Time by Daniel Barenboim
(Optional) Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry by Alison Klayman
It's Not Beautiful by Evan Osnos
No Place for Self-Pity, No Room for Fear by Toni Morrison
(Optional) The next American revolution: sustainable activism for the twenty-first century
Creating Social Action
8.1 - Paolo Freire and working with oppressed populations
8.2 - Robert Greenleaf and leading through serving
8.3 - Discussion about Freire and education
8.4 - Art, Service, and Civil Society
Interview with Paulo Freire. 1996.
(Optional) Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire
"The Servant as Leader" by Robert Greenleaf
Robert K. Greenleaf Center for Servant Leadership
(Optional) Democracy and music education : liberalism, ethics, and the politics of practice
Creating Social Action
Final Reflection
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