Register for Winter 2013 GWSS 490/HUM 595
Instructors: Michelle Habell-Pallan, Angelica Macklin and Sonnet Retman, University of Washington, Gender Women & Sexuality Studies and American Ethnic Studies
ROCK THE ARCHIVE: POPULAR MUSIC STUDIES AND DIGITAL SCHOLARSHIP
EXAMINES THE INTELLECTUAL PROJECT OF POPULAR MUSIC STUDIES IN RELATION TO THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF ARCHIVE BUILDING, ORAL HISTORY TRAINING, AND DIGITAL SCHOLARSHIP.
“Rock the Archive: Popular Music Studies and Digital Scholarship,” works in conjunction with the Women Who Rock (WWR) Digital Oral History Archive to prepare graduate and undergraduate students to analyze oral histories of a racially and ethnically diverse array of women from the U.S., Mexico and beyond who have made significant contributions to music scenes, social justice movements, public scholarship, and community life. The course examines the intellectual project of popular music studies in relation to the theory and practice of archive building, oral history training, and digital scholarship. Students will engage with critical archive studies, learn about the archive as a contested epistemological site, and create photo essays. In this way students will mesh scholarly work with the production of scholarship in digital form at an introductory level. In particular, they will explore the lives of extraordinary women musicians through primary oral history data contained in the Women Who Rock (WWR) Digital Oral History Archive, an intergenerational experiment in collective and decolonialarchive-building. Students will participate in the 3rd annual Women Who Rock (WWR) “Making Scenes, Building Communities” (Un)Conference, the Digital Oral History Archive Launch and Symposium and Film Festival on March 8-9, 2013. They will also have the opportunity to prepare a panel discussion of their work for the 2013 EMP Pop Conference.
MEETS:
SAT, JAN 12, 9AM-1PM, CMU 202; SAT, FEB 9, 9 AM-1PM, CMU 202; THURS, FEB 28, 6:30 PM, KNE 120 (MANGELS LECTURE-RAQUEL RIVERA); FRI, MAR 8, 3:30-5:30 PM, CMU 202 (ARCHIVE LAUNCH); FRI, MAR 9, 12-4 PM WASHINGTON HALL (WWR UN-conference); THURS, MAR 14, 3 -6 PM, TB
Women Who Rock Digital Media Production Courses (GWSS 590): Winter 2011 and Spring 2012
Taught by Angelica Macklin for the Department of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies and the UW Simpson Center for the Humanities. Using feminist frameworks, students will learn to film, edit, and produce their own documentaries.
Winter 2011: Making a Scene: Girls and Boys Play Indie-Rock Class
Instructors: Michelle Habell-Pallan and Sonnet Retman
University of Washington
Gender Women & Sexuality Studies
American Ethnic Studies
