Description for a course offered at Bard College, "The Meaning of
Music: An Inquiry, Part II: Hearing Music Through the Filters of
Contemporary Radical Thought—Political, Critical, Philosophical,
Musical":
How is the actual experience of hearing the actual music described
or implicated in these texts impacted by the adoption of the
perspectives they propose and advocate, or even just by the
experience of reading and being confronted by their contents? To
find out we read texts (in realtime, together) and then listen to
the relevant music (in realtime, together)—different texts with
same musics, different musics with same texts—and we perceive and
describe the contents of our listening experiences.
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