Scribner Seminar Program
Course Description
The Music Between Us
Instructor(s): Gordon Thompson, Music
Music can bind us together and drive us apart. Music is an element of our individuality
and can help us disappear into a group. How do individuals define themselves in the
context of musical communities? What kinds of communities are there? How can we describe
musical communities? What is the relationship between musical change and social change
in the context of these communities? What is the role of music in the relationship
between the self and society? This seminar will reason through a number of descriptions
of how humans employ music to define themselves.
Course Offered