2023 Fall
MUSIC 128 002 - LEC 002
Topics in the History of Music
Music and Capitalism
Nicholas Mathew
Class #:25501
Units: 3to4
Instruction Mode:
In-Person Instruction
Offered through
Music
Current Enrollment
Total Open Seats:
-3
Enrolled: 103
Waitlisted: 0
Capacity: 100
Waitlist Max: 25
No Reserved Seats
Hours & Workload
3 hours of instructor presentation of course materials per week, 6 to 8 hours of outside work hours per week, and 0 to 1 hours of the exchange of opinions or questions on course material per week.
Final Exam
THU, DECEMBER 14TH
07:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Morrison 125
Other classes by Nicholas Mathew
Course Catalog Description
For majors and non-majors. A study of issues in the history of music and sound. Topic will vary from class to class.
Class Description
This is a class about how music, musicians, and music lovers work and behave within and adjacent to the major social-economic structure that has conditioned all of our lives, wherever we grew up: capitalism. Over the course of this semester we will ask how the principles of capitalist political economy historically changed the status, self-perception, and working lives of musicians, how it has transformed the terms on which people have made, distributed, and experienced music, how it has given rise to new musical styles and aesthetics, new music-related jobs and industries, and how it has promoted new forms of environmental and political exploitation. In the process we will also explore how a range of thinkers have understood and theorized capitalism, and its fraught relationship to art and aesthetics.
Rules & Requirements
Repeat Rules
Requirements class fulfills
Meets Arts & Literature, L&S Breadth
Meets Historical Studies, 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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