MUS 3.04 American Music: Music and Metaphor
“I was served lemons, but I made lemonade.”
—Hattie White, Beyoncé’s Lemonade
As Beyoncé proves, music thrives on metaphor. What does metaphor do for music and us – participants and listeners? This course investigates metaphors in jazz, modernist, global popular (including Afro-Cuban and Egyptian), and minimalist music. We will unite music with philosophy, literature, visual art, science, and politics. The goal: to understand how metaphor shapes our experience of music and our communication with each other.
Instructor
Aschheim