109 學年第 1 學期 開設課程

This course introduces a series of writings touching on various trends of thoughts in recent music scholarship, works that draw a connection between music and cultural studies. The aim of this course is to introduce how the study of music has been gone beyond “music in itself,” the ways how music is related to disciplines such as literature, gender studies, social studies. The writings involving examples from Western art music lean toward 19th- and 20th-century music. We will complement our discussion of these writings with issues in academic writing, and some strategies for the writing about music. The readings for each week are either available on NCTU library’s subscribed website (e.g., JSTOR) or posted on the course website. Recommended textbook on scholarship writing: Kate Turabian, A Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018).

We focus on 1-2 articles per week; Each student will take turns presenting an article every month, offering a close reading and critique of its major points. At the of the semester, each student will present an article not assigned in the course syllabus.