Week 12 - Nov 21, 23 & 25, 2011 - Music, conflict and violence
- Mon: Lecture (case studies: Lebanon, UK)
- Wed: Film screening: Heavy Metal in Baghdad, by Eddy Moretti & Suroosh Alvi (Films - Music 102 2011).
- 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
YouTube links for this class:
Mazen Kerbaj: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lcgou7kkdk&feature=results_main&playnext=1&list=PL01854E74E861D5B1
Los Tigres del Norte: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8dMXnpqXpU
Los Tigres del Norte: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ng-eYklcmEM&ob=av2e
Los Tigres del Norte: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74nOvGZRQQU
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.
YouTube links for this class:
Screwdriver: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qsg6f_ovDZg
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.
