Week 11 (March 15-19) - Popular music, conflict and violence

Tuesday 16: Lecture & class discussion

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

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.

Youtube links for this class:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lcgou7kkdk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8dMXnpqXpU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tf-Sx_AdInU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qsg6f_ovDZg

Thursday 18: Film screening and class discussion

Film: Heavy Metal in Baghdad. By Eddy Moretti & Suroosh Alvi. ViceFilms 2007.

Film readings:

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.