Course Info: HACU-0233
| Course | HACU-0233 Writing About Music |
| Long Title | Writing About Music |
| Term | 2025F |
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Textbook information |
| Meeting Info | Franklin Patterson Hall 104 on T,TH from 2:30-3:50 |
| Faculty | Becky Miller |
| Capacity | 23 |
| Available | 8 |
| Waitlist | 0 |
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| Additional Info | Students should expect to spend 6-8 hours weekly on work and preparation outside of class time |
| Description | In this course, students will read and try their hand at
different types of music writing. We will learn the basics of
music journalism. literary non-fiction, and the musical memoir.
We will focus on developing and strengthening proposal writing,
outlining, setting up an argument, and the process of
editing/revision. In addition to learning basic music terminology
and concepts to strengthen how we communicate about music, we
will also learn about "deep listening" with regards to musical
structure, style, and lyrical meaning. There will be regular
required reading and listening assignments covering a range of
music, including rock/pop, punk/hardcore, western classical, rap,
R&B, folk/traditional music, and others. Students will present
their writing in class workshops and will complete short written
responses to reading and listening assignments as well as three
longer writing projects and an end-of-semester oral presentation.
Prior knowledge of music or music theory is neither expected nor
required. Keywords:music, writing, rock/pop, journalism, memoir |