MUSC 3355 — Music, Noise, Silence
4 semester hoursUndergraduateLectureNUpath DDNUpath ICNUpath WIusually offered: falltypical days: W/FBostonTraditional
Using an ethnomusicological focus, examines listening as a critical cultural practice. Combines analysis with practice-based explorations of listening to address sonic practices from around the globe in order to decolonize our assumptions about how we listen, what we listen for, and how we categorize, analyze, and assign value to the sounds we hear. Engages themes across and beyond ethno/musicology, popular music studies, music cognition, and sound studies, focusing on the social implications of listening in relation to (de)colonization, race, gender, (dis)ability, technology, environmental crisis, and human- animal interactions; and through activities including listening experiments, sound walks, and sonic art.
Prerequisites
- one of:
Offering history
| Term | Sections | Enrolled | Capacity | Full | Open seats/section |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fall 2025 | 1 | 3 | 19 | 16% | 16.0 |
Snapshots from scheduled scrapes — not live seat availability. "Full" can exceed 100% when sections over-enroll.
Meeting times
Share of recent sections by weekday: M 0% · T 0% · W 100% · Th 0% · F 100%
Common patterns: WF (100% of sections) — in patterns, R means Thursday
Professors
Fall
- Francesca Inglese (100% of students) · reviews
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Links
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