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Music, Gender, and Sexuality in New Orleans

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On-campus course
  • Gender Studies
  • Humanities
  • Music
  • Social Justice
  • 9th
  • 10th
  • 11th
  • 12th
Enrichment
1-Week Commuter Session: $895.00, 2-Week Residential Session: $4,895.00

In "Music, Gender, and Sexuality in New Orleans," we will use Black feminism and queer theory as a means to analyze and understand a variety of the city's music genres including bounce, brass band, Black Masking Indian funk, hip-hop, and R&B. How do musicians use music and sound to contest and enforce ideas about gender and sexuality? And how do these gender expressions intersect with other identity categories such as race and class? In asking these and other questions, this course makes a case for the intimate and inseparable relationship between gender performance and sexual expression in contemporary and historical music in New Orleans.

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