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Apr 25, 2024
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RLST189I PO - Electronic Music Hermeneutics of MeaningWhen Offered: One-time only; spring 2019.
Instructor(s): J. Gill
Credit: 1
Little to no work has been done in the field of religious studies with electronic music and the methods of orientation/meaning it gives to individuals and communities under its influence. The genres of house, techno, drum and bass, glitch, hip-hop, trip-hop, dubstep, reggaeton, dancehall, and others all have strong roots in the continent of Africa and the Afro-diaspora (among other places). From these and various other roots that are “mashed up” and represented, the musical styles create alternate universes/futures within the existing “real” universe, and in that the creation, there is a religiosity that demands our attention. Drawing from Alfred North Whitehead’s process philosophy and Brian Massumi’s activist philosophy, we will consider how electronic music creates fluid, vibrant, and progressive communities that reshape how we understand certain “constants” in the world. The class will pay close attention to how electronic music articulates critiques against systems of power and how said critiques serve a religious function in the world. Students will listen to electronic music, attend shows amidst several electronic music communities, explore the contours of religious meaning in the genres, and learn this exciting and relatively unexplored corner of the religious studies landscape in very embodied ways. Letter grade only.
Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
Area 3
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