TOPIC 9: Music at the U.S.-Mexico Borders
Read: Madrid, “Introduction,” in Transnational Encounters: Music and Performance at the U.S.-Mexico Border (Oxford University Press, 2011).
Listen: Borderland Music: Songs from the U.S.-Mexico Frontera in NPR (2014)
Explore: Fandango at the Wall
Watch: Chulas Fronteras, a film by Chris Strachwitz (2018).
RECOMMENDED EVENT: Los Niños Perdidos (Lost Children) A Play in Twenty Questions Friday, March 14, 2025 7:30 PM ID Studio Theater Performance and Research Center
TOPIC 10: The India-Pakistan Border: Division and Reconciliation Through Music
Read: Mumtaz, The India-Pakistan border divides the Balti tribe. Music brings them home,”in Vogue India, Dec 19, 2019.
Read: Matoo, The Pop song that is uniting India and Pakistan, in The New Yorker, May 9, 2002.
Watch:
TOPIC 11: Music and Transnational Protest/Resistance
Explore: “The Day Apartheid Died: Photos of South Africa’s First Free Vote,” The New York Times, May 8th, 2019.
Read: Bhutto, “Songs of Exile,” in This Woman’s Work. Hachette Books, 2022.
Watch: Searching for Sugarman by Malik Bendjalloul (2012) *Access through Kanopy with your Hunter’s student account.
TOPIC 12: The Limits of Music Hegemony
Read: Drott, “Music as a Technology of Surveillance” in in Journal of the Society for American Music, 12(3), 2018, 233-267.
Read: Cusick, “Music as torture / Music as a weapon,” in Journal of the Society for American Music, 12(3), 2018, 233-267.
Watch:
Recommended/Optional: Ross, “The art of fear: Music in Stalin’s Russia,” in The Rest is Noise (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009) *The Library is your friend.
TOPIC 13: The prospects of intercultural connection
Read: “Contested Imaginaries of Collective Harmony: The Poetics and Politics of ‘Silk Road’ Nostalgia in China and the West,” China and the West: Music, Representation and Reception, (University of Michigan Press, 2017), 243-264.
Watch: The Music of Strangers: Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble, by Morgan Neville (2015).
CLOSING
Watch: Summer of Soul by Questlove (2022).
Read: Ginzburg, “Reasons for Pride.”
