Spring 2025
MUSIC 31 001 - LEC 001
Radical Listening
Current Enrollment
Total Open Seats:
0
Enrolled: 50
Waitlisted: 0
Capacity: 50
Waitlist Max: 10
No Reserved Seats
Hours & Workload
2 hours of instructor presentation of course materials per week, 9 hours of outside work hours per week, and 1 hours of instructional experiences requiring special laboratory equipment and facilities per week.
Other classes by Ken Ueno
Course Catalog Description
Radical Listening (MUS 31) considers music through the lenses of extra-musical epistemologies - aesthetics and philosophies related to culture, memory, identity, gender, etc. Listening to music with such considerations can foster and illuminate personal emotional stakes. Cultivating personal stakes in listening has the benefit of moving us towards a greater capacity for empathy - what we do in our most personal aesthetic spaces can project outwards into how we engage with others, publicly, as caring citizens. Tactically, we will rehearse applying “radical listening” concepts on some of the most ubiquitous and influential music in Western culture in tandem with important, though esoteric, exponents of experimental music (e.g. Vocaloids).
Rules & Requirements
Repeat Rules
Course is not repeatable for credit.
Requirements class fulfills
Meets Arts & Literature, L&S Breadth
Reserved Seats
Current Enrollment
No Reserved Seats
Textbooks & Materials
See class syllabus or https://calstudentstore.berkeley.edu/textbooks for the most current information.
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