"Musical Creativity in Theory and Practice"

10:10-11:00 AM, M/W/F
Fall 2009, 3 credits, CLLC L210/Class 9094 (A&H)

This course asks several broad questions: How can I understand my own creativity? How do other people, both those who live in my own community, as well as those from a diverse array of social and cultural contexts, think about and practice musical creativity? Are there universally shared perspectives on and practices of creating music? What is not shared, and what are the different ways that creating music can mean something to the people who do it? We will explore answers to these broader questions through a cross-cultural (from Indiana to Java) and multi-generic (from Ukrainian country music to Hip-Hop) discussion of particular examples and cases. Students are encouraged to share music to which they are already listening as part of these discussions as well as to consider how the ideas emanating from our discussions might be usefully applied in their own fields of study. We will then join theory and practice, through a series of assignments, by employing the ideas we discuss in the process of actually creating music ourselves. No prior musical training is required to take this class. If you do have prior musical training, however, please feel free to put it to use (or utterly ignore it, if you wish).

Please contact instructor Anthony Guest-Scott for more information:
aguestsc@indiana.edu

Thank you very much,

Anthony

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Anthony Guest-Scott

Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology, Indiana University

Louise McNutt Graduate Fellow,
College of Arts and Sciences, Indiana University

Listserv Manager and Website Editor, PMSSEM (Popular Music Section of the Society for Ethnomusicology)

aguestsc@indiana.edu
aguestscott@gmail.com