First-Year Seminars 110MM - Music in Women's Communities

This course surveys music in a range of women's, and womxn's, communities and ensembles-from medieval convents and "all-girl" swing bands to Cuba's Camerata Romeu and the Butterfly Music Transgender Chorus. Although the focus will be on Western art music, we will also encounter women's music from Ghana and Bulgaria, and women's rock/pop festivals and DJ collectives. Performers and conductors will visit the class, and we will learn about the history of music ensembles at the College. You do not need to be a musician or know how to read music; listening across cultures and genres, we will contemplate the opportunities and challenges of womxn-only spaces for music in the twenty-first century.

First-year students only, by placement.