John Hopkins University - The Importance and Power of Music in our Society
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Duration | 20 hours |
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Total fee | Free |
Mode of learning | Online |
Difficulty level | Beginner |
Official Website | Explore Free Course |
Credential | Certificate |
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- Music plays an important role in our daily lives and is woven into the fabric of society. We listen to music while alone or in company, in a dance club or at home, through simple headphones or via high-end speakers, as background or as foreground, after we get up or before we go to bed. Music accompanies us when we are traveling, doing sports, shopping, working or relaxing. This omnipresence of music raises several questions: how does music affect our lives? What is the relation between the society we live in and the role, function, and position of music within that society? How is music influenced by and does music influence social, political, economic, technological, and multiple other developments?
- Do these questions trigger you? Music and Society provides a thorough introduction to the various ways in which music and society are connected through engaging lectures, insightful interviews, challenging assignments, interesting readings, and of course a lot of musical examples. The course aims at increasing your insights on where, how and why we listen to music, how music contributes to shaping our identity, how music forms, expresses, and subverts political ideas, and how music affects our norms and values.
The Importance and Power of Music in our Society at Coursera Curriculum
Welcome to the Course
Music and society: general introduction
How to succeed in your online class?
Meet the instructors and the team
Leiden University: Facts & Figures
Community Guidelines
What is your learning path?
"A day in the life of a listener"
Reflection on "a day in the life of a listener"
Music between consciousness and subconsciousness: An interview with Anahid Kassabian
Music between consciousness and subconsciousness: An interview with Thomas van Straaten
Reflection on the interviews with Anahid Kassabian and Thomas van Straaten
"Music for Airports": The various roles of music
Music and atmosphere: Concluding discussion
How can music and society be related?
Music and Identity
Music and identity: An introduction
Music and personal identity: the power from outside vs. the freedom from inside
Music and collective identity: One song, many identities
"I will survive": Music between repetition and difference
Music and clashing identities: An interview with Daniel Barenboim
Reflection on the interview with Daniel Barenboim
Does social position affect musical taste? An introduction to Bourdieu
From inequality in society to inequality in music: Bourdieu?s critique
Music and identity: Concluding discussion
Music and personal identity
Deconstructing identity: Mark C. Taylor
Music and identity: Exploring Bourdieu?s views
Music and personal identity
Music and identity: Exploring Bourdieu?s views
Music and Politics
Music and politics: An introduction
From noise regulation to national hymns: Music and the state
Music and culture industry: An introduction to Adorno
Power is everywhere: From ?politics? to ?the political?
Disciplining and controlling: Music and the political
Undermining authority: Music and subversion
The possibility of subversion through music: Adorno revisited
Music, cultural policy, and resistance: An interview with Louis Andriessen
Music and politics: Concluding discussion
Music and politics: The fetish character in music and the regression of listening
Affective tonality? What's that?
How music becomes noise: Jacques Attali
Music and politics: The fetish character in music and the regression of listening
Affective tonality? What's that?
How music becomes noise: Jacques Attali
Music and Ethics
Music and ethics: An introduction
Music and virtue: Good music for the good soul
Music and hospitality: An introduction
Ethical listening and perceptual care
Music and respect: An interview with Ton Koopman
Reflection on the interview with Ton Koopman
Music and ?Bildung?: Character first
Music and engagement: An interview with Nanette Nielsen
Music and ethics: Concluding discussion
Post-Modern Ethics: Beyond Good and Evil
Music and ethics: Freedom, bildung and art
Complete our short survey
Post-Modern Ethics: Beyond Good and Evil
Music and Ethics: Freedom, Bildung and Art
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