Time Schedule:
Christina Sunardi
MUSIC 316
Seattle Campus
Near East, Central Asia, Far East, South and Southeast Asia, Indonesia, and the Philippines. Content varies.
Class description
We will examine music, dance, and theater in four Asian countries: Japan, China, India, and Indonesia. Connecting our explorations of the cultural contexts, histories and conventions of the performing arts in these places is a question: What does it mean for musicians, dancers and puppeteers to perform “traditional” arts in a “modern,” “global” world? As we try to answer this question, we will consider how performers categorize genres of the performing arts, their ideas about innovation, and the ways they talk about “tradition” and “authenticity.”
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