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Music and Social Action
  • Level Foundation
  • المدة 26 ساعات hours
  • الطبع بواسطة Yale University
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What is a musician's response to the condition of the world? Do musicians have an obligation and an opportunity to serve the needs of the world with their musicianship? At a time of crisis for the classical music profession, with a changing commercial landscape, a shrinking audience base, and a contraction in the number of professional orchestras, how does a young musician construct a career today? Are we looking at a dying art form or a moment of reinvigoration? In this course we will develop a response to these questions, and we will explore the notion that the classical musician, the artist, is an important public figure with a critical role to play in society. The course will include inquiry into a set of ideas in philosophy of aesthetics; a discussion about freedom, civil society, and ways that art can play a role in readying people for democracy; discussion on philosophy of education as it relates to the question of positive social change; and an exploration of musical and artistic initiatives that have been particularly focused on a positive social impact. Guiding questions for this course inquiry will include: - How can classical music effect social change? - How has music made positive change in communities around the globe? - What can the field of classical music learn from other movements for social change? - How have educators and philosophers thought about the arts and their connection to daily contemporary life? Each class will explore one critical question through lectures, discussions, interviews, or documentaries.

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About this course

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  • Welcome to Music and Social Action
  • Introduction to the course

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  • Course Overview

Meet your instructors and peers!

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  • Introduce yourself!

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  • Meet Your Instructors!

Course resources

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  • Readings and Resources
  • Grading and Logistics

Module introduction

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  • 2.1 - An introduction to Dewey and Greene

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  • Dewey's Aesthetics
  • The John Dewey Society

Dewey's "Art as Experience"

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  • 2.2 - Making and perceiving art as a human impulse

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  • (Optional) Art as Experience by John Dewey Chapters 1 and 2

Maxine Greene and seeing new possibilities

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  • 2.3 - The aesthetic dimension and openings

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  • (Optional) Releasing the Imagination: Essays on Education, the Arts, and Social Change by Maxine Greene
  • The Maxine Greene Center for Aesthetic Education and Social Imagination
  • (Optional) The dialectic of freedom by Maxine Greene

Ways of seeing

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  • 2.4 - Ways of seeing: how does an artistic outlook change the way we see the world?

4 Readings

  • Flow, the secret to happiness
  • (Optional) Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
  • (Optional) The Aesthetic Dimension by Herbert Marcuse
  • The Barnes Foundation

Review and digest: Quiz and response writing

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  • What Is Art and How Do We Experience It?

1 Peer Review

  • Relate Dewey's/Greene's ideas to your life!

1 Discussions

  • The differences between Dewey and Greene's ideas

Module introduction

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  • 3.1 - Democracy and the arts, Part I
  • 3.2 - What is the role of the arts in a free society?

1 Readings

  • Dream Songs: The Music of the March on Washington

Dewey's "Art and Civilization"

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  • 3.3 - Art as a way of understanding the world

Civil Society and Art

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  • 3.4 - Civil Society and Freedom: what do we mean by freedoms in a democracy?
  • 3.5 - Regard for Otherness: Maxine Greene and civil society

3 Readings

  • (Optional) Art as Experience by John Dewey (Chapter 14)
  • Imagining Art + Social Change
  • Music & Civil Society: A Symphony in the Making

Students discuss civil society and art

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  • 3.6 - Discussion about Dewey, Maxine Greene, conceptions of freedom and the arts

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  • Elements of the Philosophy of Right by G.W. Hegel
  • (Optional) Civil Society: Old Images, New Visions by John Keane

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  • Democracy and the Arts, Part I

1 Peer Review

  • The concept of regard

Module introduction

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  • 4.1 - Democracy and the Arts, Part II

1 Readings

  • (Optional) A people's art history of the United States: 250 years of activist art and artists working in social justice movements

The role of the artist in America

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  • 4.2 - The New Deal
  • 4.3 - John F. Kennedy's ideal

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  • The New Deal Stage: Selections from the Federal Theatre Project 1935-1939
  • (Optional) “American Resources in the Arts” by Holger Cahill
  • Remarks by John F. Kennedy at Amherst College (audio recording and transcript)
  • (Optional) All of This Music Belongs to the Nation: The WPA’s Federal Music Project and American Society by Kenneth Bindas

The Social Imagination

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  • 4.4 - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and his dream

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  • Martin Luther King, Jr. “I Have a Dream.”

Students discuss democracy and the arts

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  • 4.5 - Discussion about President Kennedy, Dr. King, social imagination

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  • Democracy and the Arts, Part II

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  • Democracy and the Arts

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  • 5.1 - Introduction to the class

1 Readings

  • Arts Organizations featured throughout this module

Lincoln Center and Urban Renewal

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  • 5.2 - How the arts change cities/neighborhoods

5 Readings

  • (Optional) The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs
  • A Marvelous Order: An opera about Robert Moses and Jane Jacobs
  • The Power Walker by Charles McGrath
  • (Optional) Master builder of New York City by Robert Moses
  • (Optional) The battle of Lincoln Square: neighbourhood culture and the rise of resistance to urban renewal by Samuel Zipp

Art and artists changing communities

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  • 5.3 - Conversations with directors of Providence and New Haven organizations
  • 5.4 - Conversation with Jamie Bennett of ArtPlace America

2 Readings

  • (Optional) West Side Story by Leonard Bernstein, Arthur Laurents, Stephen Sondheim, Jerome Robbins
  • Somewhere by Matthew Lopez

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  • Arts and Urban Renewal

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  • Artists in your community

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  • Artists in your community taking social action

20th Century musicians and their social commitments

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  • 6.1 - Pablo Casals, conscience and country
  • 6.2 - Bronislaw Huberman, Europe and Palestine in the 1930s
  • 6.3 - Yehudi Menuhin and taking political action

6 Readings

  • What Happened, Miss Simone? (Netflix Documentary)
  • (Optional) "I Don't Trust You Anymore": Nina Simone, Culture, and Black Activism in the 1960s by Ruth Feldstein
  • Billie Holiday - Strange Fruit
  • (Optional) Harlem Nocturne: Women Artists and Progressive Politics During World War II
  • (Optional) Joys and Sorrows: Reflections by Pablo Casals by Pablo Casals and Albert Kahn
  • (Optional) Orchestra of Exiles by Josh Aronson

Musicians and their social practice

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  • 6.4 - Discussion about Casals and Huberman

5 Readings

  • (Optional) "The Other West Side Story: Urbanization and the Arts Meet at the Lincoln Center" by Julia Foulkes
  • (Optional) The sound of freedom : Marian Anderson, the Lincoln Memorial, and the concert that awakened America by Raymond Arsenault
  • "Marian Anderson Sings at the Lincoln Memorial" Newreel Story
  • (Optional) Sounds of the New Deal : the Federal Music Project in the West by Peter Gough
  • (Optional) Pablo Casals : a cry for peace by Robert Snyder

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  • Casals and Huberman

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  • The connection between humanitarian and artistic work

Module Introduction

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  • 7.1 - 21st Century Artists and Social Commitment

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  • (Optional) An Orchestra Beyond Borders: Voices of the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra by Elena Cheah
  • (Optional) Knowledge is the Beginning by Paul Smaczny

21st Century performers and political / social commitments, Part 1

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  • 7.2 - Conversation with pianist Jonathan Biss

Music with communities in conflict

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  • 7.3 - Barenboim and the West Eastern Divan Orchestra

1 Readings

  • (Optional) Music Quickens Time by Daniel Barenboim

Art as social action

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1 Discussions

  • Ai Weiwei Responds To Chinese Authorities Destroying His Beijing Studio : NPR

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  • 7.4 - Ai Wei Wei and protest through art making

4 Readings

  • (Optional) Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry by Alison Klayman
  • It's Not Beautiful by Evan Osnos
  • No Place for Self-Pity, No Room for Fear by Toni Morrison
  • (Optional) The next American revolution: sustainable activism for the twenty-first century

21st Century performers and political / social commitments, Part 2

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  • 7.5 - Conversation with pianist Vijay Iyer

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  • Effective means of social action

1 Discussions

  • Opportunity vs. obligation for the 21st century artist

Critical Consciousness and Servant Leadership

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  • 8.1 - Paolo Freire and working with oppressed populations
  • 8.2 - Robert Greenleaf and leading through serving

3 Readings

  • Interview with Paulo Freire. 1996.
  • (Optional) Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire
  • "The Servant as Leader" by Robert Greenleaf

Students discuss education and social action

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  • 8.3 - Discussion about Freire and education

Synthesizing art and social action

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  • 8.4 - Art, Service, and Civil Society

2 Readings

  • Robert K. Greenleaf Center for Servant Leadership
  • (Optional) Democracy and music education : liberalism, ethics, and the politics of practice

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  • Creating Social Action

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  • Artistic practice influenced by Freire

Final question

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  • How can artists/arts organizations make an impact in your community?
Sebastian Ruth
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Sebastian Ruth