Week 11 - Nov 22, 24, 26 - Music, conflict and violence

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  • Mon: Lecture (case studies: Lebanon, UK)
  • Wed: Film screening: Heavy Metal in Baghdad, by Eddy Moretti & Suroosh Alvi.
  • Fri: Lecture (case study: Mexico)

Readings:

Assigned readings:

Burkhalter, Thomas. “Thanks for letting me hear the war again.” Norient, July 31, 2006. Online at http://www.norient.com/html/show_article.php?ID=90

AND

Simonett, Helena. “Los gallos valientes: Examining Violence in Mexican Popular Music.” Transcultural Music Review, no. 10, 2006. Online at http://www.sibetrans.com/trans/trans10/simonett.htm

Additional reading:

Hamm, Mark S. “Hammer of the Gods Revisited: Neo-Nazi Skinheads, Domestic Terrorism, and the Rise of the New Protest Music,” in Jeff Ferrell and Clinton R. Sanders (eds.) Cultural Criminology. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1995, pp. 190-212.


Further reading:

Cusick, Suzanne G. “Music as Torture / Music as Weapon.” Transcultural Music Review, 10, 2006. Online at http://www.sibetrans.com/trans/trans10/cusick_eng.htm

OR

Pieslak, Jonathan R. “Sound Targets: Music and the War in Iraq.” Journal of Musicological Research, 26, 2007, pp. 123-49.

Bibliography (Music 102 2010)