MU 225 - NCH Silk Road Soundscapes of Compassion, Healing, and Care

4.00 credits.

(Non-Western Cultural Heritage Core Course)
Our ability to care for each other and for our ecological relationships rests upon notions of identity, ethics, and our understanding of relational belonging. Drawing on scholarship from medical ethnomusicology, care ethics, and asian studies, this course employs studies of Silk Road soundscapes to study diverse ways in which sound expands or contracts expressive compassion or spatial territories. This course intentionally uses the language of soundscapes, to draw ethical studies of cultures that view notions of “music” and “sound” differently from Euro-centric understandings. Students will come to a deeper understanding of how emotion, story, relation, and wholeness are supported through sound/music and ritual. Spring semester.