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Music and Social Action

What is a musician’s response to the condition of the world? Do musicians have an obligation and an opportunity to serve the needs of the world with their musicianship? At a time of crisis for the classical music profession, with a changing commercial landscape, a shrinking audience base, and a contraction in the number of professional orchestras, how does a young musician construct a career today? Are we looking at a dying art form or a moment of reinvigoration? In this course we will develop a response to these questions, and we will explore the notion that the classical musician, the artist, is an important public figure with a critical role to play in society. The course will include inquiry into a set of ideas in philosophy of aesthetics; a discussion about freedom, civil society, and ways that art can play a role in readying people for democracy; discussion on philosophy of education as it relates to the question of positive social change; and an exploration of musical and artistic initiatives that have been particularly focused on a positive social impact. Guiding questions for this course inquiry will include: - How can classical music effect social change? - How has music made positive change in communities around the globe? - What can the field of classical music learn from other movements for social change? - How have educators and philosophers thought about the arts and their connection to daily contemporary life? Each class will explore one critical question through lectures, discussions, interviews, or documentaries.

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Rating 4.5★ based on 48 ratings
Length 10 weeks
Effort 7 weeks of study, 2-3 hours/week
Starts Jul 17 (40 weeks ago)
Cost $49
From Yale University via Coursera
Instructor Sebastian Ruth
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Language English
Subjects Art & Design Humanities
Tags Arts And Humanities Music And Art Philosophy

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social action

I enjoyed this course and learned a great deal about music and social action.

I It is a course at first somewhat complex, but then the ideas of great thinkers and participants of social action are unfolding through culture and music.

Perhaps "The Influence of the Arts on Social Action" would better define the intent of the course.

Very insightful course on music (not that much on specifically music, rather broadly all branches of art) can be used in practice of social action.

This course helped me clarify and advance my thinking, providing me with a theoretical grounding of music and social action.

I look forward to building on this grounding and finding new ways to use music in my community for further social action - the opportunities abound in 2020!

A course that helped me refresh and affirm my intentions and motivations to continue pursuing music as a mode to social action.

Music and Social Action was a great experience where I learned a more defined appreciation of music and culture.

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very interesting

The Course was very interesting to me.

"Harlem Nocturne" was a very interesting reading to me that tells the amazing story of three black woman artists in the 1940s and their impact on the American Civil Rights Movement by Black Power: young, gifted and black (Nina Simone).

Very interesting course.

The course was very interesting and had a lot of interesting insights.

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music as

Also, it was unclear why the focus was on CLASSICAL music, since so many examples come from other artforms (e.g., Ai Wei Wei) and I'm sure the discussions would be richer if they considered popular music as well.

The course involved many interesting conceptions (like how modern conceptions of civil society differ from Hegel’s) and discussions of many really worthy persons (like Pablo Casals, Bronisław Huberman, or Ai Weiwei) but did not pertain music as such.

sebastian ruth

Sebastian Ruth found good examples to clarify the subjects, and he gives the lectures on a pleasant way.

very good course I'd like to take this opportunity to thank Dr Sebastian Ruth for this beautiful MOOC, the passion he has delivered in every single step of the online learning, giving me the invaluable opportunity of accessing such deep knowledge while enjoying the whole length of my studies.

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good course

All in all a really good course!

A good course to take for any musician.

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Rating 4.5★ based on 48 ratings
Length 10 weeks
Effort 7 weeks of study, 2-3 hours/week
Starts Jul 17 (40 weeks ago)
Cost $49
From Yale University via Coursera
Instructor Sebastian Ruth
Download Videos On all desktop and mobile devices
Language English
Subjects Art & Design Humanities
Tags Arts And Humanities Music And Art Philosophy

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