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Fall 2024  |  ENGL 3061 Section 001: Literature and Music (32234)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Discussion
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
09/03/2024 - 12/11/2024
Tue, Thu 01:00PM - 02:15PM
UMTC, East Bank
Pillsbury Hall 214
Enrollment Status:
Open (18 of 30 seats filled)
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
In this course, we will explore the connections and parallels between music and literature, assessing both form and content and drawing upon various genres from both arts. We will examine some of the ways that musical and literary texts can change, subvert, or augment each other by applying critical and literary theories to intertextual readings. Among the subjects we may discuss are how authors use music in their work, both structurally and topically; how musicians use literature, both as lyric and as subject matter; and how members of each group engage the artistic assumptions of the other. Students will gain a greater appreciation of the varied forms of creative expression and an increased understanding of how they influence each other through close reading and listening, discussions, reflective writing, and presentations.
Class Description:
In celebration of Bob Dylan's being awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, the University of Minnesota English Department will offer a special section of ENGL 3061 (Literature and Music) focused on "The Literary Bob Dylan."

The course will explore the music of Bob Dylan, one of the most critically acclaimed and culturally influential musicians of all time. Dylan, who was born Bob Zimmerman in Duluth and grew up in Hibbing, took his stage name from the Welsh poet Dylan Thomas and has regularly named poets as some of his greatest influences, alongside other folk musicians. This course will examine Dylan's literary influences and his influence on literature, as well as question the dividing line between music and poetry.

Students will pay special attention to Dylan's wide variety of formal strategies (the epigram, the couplet, balladry, surrealism, etc.) and their relation to poetic history in hopes of discovering new contexts for a musician who is continually reinventing himself. At the same time, they will consider the tensions these forms and their histories created in Dylan's musical career (manifest, for example, in the "going electric" controversy at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival). Students will also situate Dylan's music, particularly his early work, in its historical and political context in order to consider, for example, strategies for cultivating empathy/sympathy through language and poetic form in the context of the Civil Rights movement ("Only a Pawn in Their Game," "The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll") and to question the possibilities for a poetics of protest in the context of the Vietnam War ("A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall," "Masters of War").

Texts will likely include: Studio A: The Bob Dylan Reader, Chronicles (Dylan's memoirs), Dylan's music and liner notes, as well as Woody Guthrie's autobiography (Bound for Glory). We will also read selections from Arthur Rimbaud, Paul Verlaine, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Joyce Carol Oates, Hunter S. Thompson, Dylan Thomas, Robert Burns, Walt Whitman, T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Paul Muldoon, and William Gay, among others.

In order to allow students to trace Dylan's living legacy and critically examine the poetics of current folk music, the class will attend a local concert (schedule and cost permitting).

This course meets the Literature Core Liberal Education requirement.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/32234/1249
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
6 March 2017

Spring 2022  |  ENGL 3061 Section 001: Literature and Music (54830)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Discussion
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/18/2022 - 05/02/2022
Tue, Thu 11:15AM - 12:30PM
UMTC, East Bank
Pillsbury Hall 412
Enrollment Status:
Closed (31 of 30 seats filled)
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
In this course, we will explore the connections and parallels between music and literature, assessing both form and content and drawing upon various genres from both arts. We will examine some of the ways that musical and literary texts can change, subvert, or augment each other by applying critical and literary theories to intertextual readings. Among the subjects we may discuss are how authors use music in their work, both structurally and topically; how musicians use literature, both as lyric and as subject matter; and how members of each group engage the artistic assumptions of the other. Students will gain a greater appreciation of the varied forms of creative expression and an increased understanding of how they influence each other through close reading and listening, discussions, reflective writing, and presentations.
Class Description:
Revolutions per Minute: Punk Rock and Hip Hop In this course, we'll explore the cultural realms of PUNK ROCK and HIP HOP with the help of cultural history and theory, fiction, poetry, graphic texts, film and video, and of, course, the songs themselves. Here are some of the things we'll do: *excavate the pre-history of each genre and pay particular attention to the times and places they have in common (such as the crucial incubator of New York in the 1970s) *read around in literary works in the spirit of our subjects *consider each genre's attendant aesthetic dimensions of fashion and visual art * investigate the role of race, gender, and sexuality in the cultures (and the evolution of same) * track the regional and global movements of each culture * investigate the counter-cultural significance of sampling and deconstruction * interrogate the discourses of authenticity and community that have proven (in each culture) to be both powerful and complicated * watch a couple of films from the early 80s * listen to weekly "sets" of songs. There will also be some short writing assignments, a couple of quizzes, and some sort of presentation.
*This course meets the Literature Core LE requirement.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/54830/1223
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
6 March 2017

Fall 2021  |  ENGL 3061 Section 001: Literature and Music (21672)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Discussion
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
09/07/2021 - 12/15/2021
Mon, Wed 02:30PM - 03:45PM
UMTC, East Bank
Pillsbury Hall 211
Enrollment Status:
Closed (29 of 29 seats filled)
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
In this course, we will explore the connections and parallels between music and literature, assessing both form and content and drawing upon various genres from both arts. We will examine some of the ways that musical and literary texts can change, subvert, or augment each other by applying critical and literary theories to intertextual readings. Among the subjects we may discuss are how authors use music in their work, both structurally and topically; how musicians use literature, both as lyric and as subject matter; and how members of each group engage the artistic assumptions of the other. Students will gain a greater appreciation of the varied forms of creative expression and an increased understanding of how they influence each other through close reading and listening, discussions, reflective writing, and presentations.
Class Description:
Revolutions per Minute: Punk Rock and Hip Hop In this course, we'll explore the cultural realms of PUNK ROCK and HIP HOP with the help of cultural history and theory, fiction, poetry, graphic texts, film and video, and of, course, the songs themselves. Here are some of the things we'll do: *excavate the pre-history of each genre and pay particular attention to the times and places they have in common (such as the crucial incubator of New York in the 1970s) *read around in literary works in the spirit of our subjects *consider each genre's attendant aesthetic dimensions of fashion and visual art * investigate the role of race, gender, and sexuality in the cultures (and the evolution of same) * track the regional and global movements of each culture * investigate the counter-cultural significance of sampling and deconstruction * interrogate the discourses of authenticity and community that have proven (in each culture) to be both powerful and complicated * watch a couple of films from the early 80s * listen to weekly "sets" of songs. There will also be some short writing assignments, a couple of quizzes, and some sort of presentation.
*This course meets the Literature Core LE requirement.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/21672/1219
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
6 March 2017

Spring 2021  |  ENGL 3061 Section 001: Literature and Music (50842)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Discussion
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
Instructor Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
Completely Online
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Delivery Mode
Online Course
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/19/2021 - 05/03/2021
Mon, Wed 02:30PM - 03:45PM
Off Campus
UMN REMOTE
Enrollment Status:
Closed (31 of 30 seats filled)
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
In this course, we will explore the connections and parallels between music and literature, assessing both form and content and drawing upon various genres from both arts. We will examine some of the ways that musical and literary texts can change, subvert, or augment each other by applying critical and literary theories to intertextual readings. Among the subjects we may discuss are how authors use music in their work, both structurally and topically; how musicians use literature, both as lyric and as subject matter; and how members of each group engage the artistic assumptions of the other. Students will gain a greater appreciation of the varied forms of creative expression and an increased understanding of how they influence each other through close reading and listening, discussions, reflective writing, and presentations.
Class Description:
Revolutions per Minute: Punk Rock and Hip Hop In this course, we'll explore the cultural realms of PUNK ROCK and HIP HOP with the help of cultural history and theory, fiction, poetry, graphic texts, film and video, and of, course, the songs themselves. Here are some of the things we'll do: *excavate the pre-history of each genre and pay particular attention to the times and places they have in common (such as the crucial incubator of New York in the 1970s) *read around in literary works in the spirit of our subjects *consider each genre's attendant aesthetic dimensions of fashion and visual art * investigate the role of race, gender, and sexuality in the cultures (and the evolution of same) * track the regional and global movements of each culture * investigate the counter-cultural significance of sampling and deconstruction * interrogate the discourses of authenticity and community that have proven (in each culture) to be both powerful and complicated * watch a couple of films from the early 80s * listen to weekly "sets" of songs. There will also be some short writing assignments, a couple of quizzes, and some sort of presentation.
*This course meets the Literature Core LE requirement.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/50842/1213
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
6 March 2017

Fall 2020  |  ENGL 3061 Section 001: Literature and Music (16384)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Discussion
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
Completely Online
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Online Course
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
09/08/2020 - 12/16/2020
Mon, Wed 02:30PM - 03:45PM
Off Campus
UMN REMOTE
Enrollment Status:
Closed (30 of 30 seats filled)
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
In this course, we will explore the connections and parallels between music and literature, assessing both form and content and drawing upon various genres from both arts. We will examine some of the ways that musical and literary texts can change, subvert, or augment each other by applying critical and literary theories to intertextual readings. Among the subjects we may discuss are how authors use music in their work, both structurally and topically; how musicians use literature, both as lyric and as subject matter; and how members of each group engage the artistic assumptions of the other. Students will gain a greater appreciation of the varied forms of creative expression and an increased understanding of how they influence each other through close reading and listening, discussions, reflective writing, and presentations.
Class Notes:
This course is completely online in a synchronous format. The course will meet online at the scheduled times.
Class Description:
Revolutions per Minute: Punk Rock and Hip Hop In this course, we'll explore the cultural realms of PUNK ROCK and HIP HOP with the help of cultural history and theory, fiction, poetry, graphic texts, film and video, and of, course, the songs themselves. Here are some of the things we'll do: *excavate the pre-history of each genre and pay particular attention to the times and places they have in common (such as the crucial incubator of New York in the 1970s) *read around in literary works in the spirit of our subjects *consider each genre's attendant aesthetic dimensions of fashion and visual art * investigate the role of race, gender, and sexuality in the cultures (and the evolution of same) * track the regional and global movements of each culture * investigate the counter-cultural significance of sampling and deconstruction * interrogate the discourses of authenticity and community that have proven (in each culture) to be both powerful and complicated * watch a couple of films from the early 80s * listen to weekly "sets" of songs. There will also be some short writing assignments, a couple of quizzes, and some sort of presentation.
*This course meets the Literature Core LE requirement.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/16384/1209
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
6 March 2017

Spring 2020  |  ENGL 3061 Section 001: Literature and Music (54519)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Discussion
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/21/2020 - 05/04/2020
Mon, Wed 01:00PM - 02:15PM
UMTC, East Bank
Lind Hall 302
Enrollment Status:
Open (27 of 30 seats filled)
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
In this course, we will explore the connections and parallels between music and literature, assessing both form and content and drawing upon various genres from both arts. We will examine some of the ways that musical and literary texts can change, subvert, or augment each other by applying critical and literary theories to intertextual readings. Among the subjects we may discuss are how authors use music in their work, both structurally and topically; how musicians use literature, both as lyric and as subject matter; and how members of each group engage the artistic assumptions of the other. Students will gain a greater appreciation of the varied forms of creative expression and an increased understanding of how they influence each other through close reading and listening, discussions, reflective writing, and presentations.
Class Description:
In celebration of Bob Dylan's being awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, the University of Minnesota English Department will offer a special section of ENGL 3061 (Literature and Music) focused on "The Literary Bob Dylan."

The course will explore the music of Bob Dylan, one of the most critically acclaimed and culturally influential musicians of all time. Dylan, who was born Bob Zimmerman in Duluth and grew up in Hibbing, took his stage name from the Welsh poet Dylan Thomas and has regularly named poets as some of his greatest influences, alongside other folk musicians. This course will examine Dylan's literary influences and his influence on literature, as well as question the dividing line between music and poetry.

Students will pay special attention to Dylan's wide variety of formal strategies (the epigram, the couplet, balladry, surrealism, etc.) and their relation to poetic history in hopes of discovering new contexts for a musician who is continually reinventing himself. At the same time, they will consider the tensions these forms and their histories created in Dylan's musical career (manifest, for example, in the "going electric" controversy at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival). Students will also situate Dylan's music, particularly his early work, in its historical and political context in order to consider, for example, strategies for cultivating empathy/sympathy through language and poetic form in the context of the Civil Rights movement ("Only a Pawn in Their Game," "The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll") and to question the possibilities for a poetics of protest in the context of the Vietnam War ("A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall," "Masters of War").

Texts will likely include: Studio A: The Bob Dylan Reader, Chronicles (Dylan's memoirs), Dylan's music and liner notes, as well as Woody Guthrie's autobiography (Bound for Glory). We will also read selections from Arthur Rimbaud, Paul Verlaine, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Joyce Carol Oates, Hunter S. Thompson, Dylan Thomas, Robert Burns, Walt Whitman, T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Paul Muldoon, and William Gay, among others.

In order to allow students to trace Dylan's living legacy and critically examine the poetics of current folk music, the class will attend a local concert (schedule and cost permitting).

This course meets the Literature Core Liberal Education requirement.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/54519/1203
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
6 March 2017

Spring 2020  |  ENGL 3061 Section 002: Literature and Music (55363)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Discussion
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/21/2020 - 05/04/2020
Mon, Wed 02:30PM - 03:45PM
UMTC, East Bank
Lind Hall 229
Enrollment Status:
Open (28 of 30 seats filled)
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
In this course, we will explore the connections and parallels between music and literature, assessing both form and content and drawing upon various genres from both arts. We will examine some of the ways that musical and literary texts can change, subvert, or augment each other by applying critical and literary theories to intertextual readings. Among the subjects we may discuss are how authors use music in their work, both structurally and topically; how musicians use literature, both as lyric and as subject matter; and how members of each group engage the artistic assumptions of the other. Students will gain a greater appreciation of the varied forms of creative expression and an increased understanding of how they influence each other through close reading and listening, discussions, reflective writing, and presentations.
Class Description:
Revolutions per Minute: Punk Rock and Hip Hop In this course, we'll explore the cultural realms of PUNK ROCK and HIP HOP with the help of cultural history and theory, fiction, poetry, graphic texts, film and video, and of, course, the songs themselves. Here are some of the things we'll do: *excavate the pre-history of each genre and pay particular attention to the times and places they have in common (such as the crucial incubator of New York in the 1970s) *read around in literary works in the spirit of our subjects *consider each genre's attendant aesthetic dimensions of fashion and visual art * investigate the role of race, gender, and sexuality in the cultures (and the evolution of same) * track the regional and global movements of each culture * investigate the counter-cultural significance of sampling and deconstruction * interrogate the discourses of authenticity and community that have proven (in each culture) to be both powerful and complicated * watch a couple of films from the early 80s * listen to weekly "sets" of songs. There will also be some short writing assignments, a couple of quizzes, and some sort of presentation.
*This course meets the Literature Core LE requirement.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/55363/1203
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
6 March 2017

Fall 2019  |  ENGL 3061 Section 001: Literature and Music (19883)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Discussion
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
09/03/2019 - 12/11/2019
Mon, Wed 02:30PM - 03:45PM
UMTC, East Bank
Lind Hall 203
Enrollment Status:
Open (27 of 30 seats filled)
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
In this course, we will explore the connections and parallels between music and literature, assessing both form and content and drawing upon various genres from both arts. We will examine some of the ways that musical and literary texts can change, subvert, or augment each other by applying critical and literary theories to intertextual readings. Among the subjects we may discuss are how authors use music in their work, both structurally and topically; how musicians use literature, both as lyric and as subject matter; and how members of each group engage the artistic assumptions of the other. Students will gain a greater appreciation of the varied forms of creative expression and an increased understanding of how they influence each other through close reading and listening, discussions, reflective writing, and presentations.
Class Description:
Revolutions per Minute: Punk Rock and Hip Hop In this course, we'll explore the cultural realms of PUNK ROCK and HIP HOP with the help of cultural history and theory, fiction, poetry, graphic texts, film and video, and of, course, the songs themselves. Here are some of the things we'll do: *excavate the pre-history of each genre and pay particular attention to the times and places they have in common (such as the crucial incubator of New York in the 1970s) *read around in literary works in the spirit of our subjects *consider each genre's attendant aesthetic dimensions of fashion and visual art * investigate the role of race, gender, and sexuality in the cultures (and the evolution of same) * track the regional and global movements of each culture * investigate the counter-cultural significance of sampling and deconstruction * interrogate the discourses of authenticity and community that have proven (in each culture) to be both powerful and complicated * watch a couple of films from the early 80s * listen to weekly "sets" of songs. There will also be some short writing assignments, a couple of quizzes, and some sort of presentation.
*This course meets the Literature Core LE requirement.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/19883/1199
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
6 March 2017

Spring 2019  |  ENGL 3061 Section 001: Literature and Music (54782)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Discussion
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/22/2019 - 05/06/2019
Tue, Thu 01:00PM - 02:15PM
UMTC, East Bank
Lind Hall 302
Enrollment Status:
Open (28 of 30 seats filled)
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
In this course, we will explore the connections and parallels between music and literature, assessing both form and content and drawing upon various genres from both arts. We will examine some of the ways that musical and literary texts can change, subvert, or augment each other by applying critical and literary theories to intertextual readings. Among the subjects we may discuss are how authors use music in their work, both structurally and topically; how musicians use literature, both as lyric and as subject matter; and how members of each group engage the artistic assumptions of the other. Students will gain a greater appreciation of the varied forms of creative expression and an increased understanding of how they influence each other through close reading and listening, discussions, reflective writing, and presentations.
Class Description:
Shakespeare/Verdi: The single-most glorious intersection of Literature and Music is opera, of course. It follows, then, that great opera based on great literature gives us the best of both worlds, and the most brilliant example of literature-based opera would have to be Verdi's adaptations of 3 of Shakespeare's plays. This course will explore the Literature/Music nexus through a detailed look at 3 of William Shakespeare's plays - MACBETH, OTHELLO, and THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR - along with the 3 operas Giuseppe Verdi based on those works - MACBETH, OTELLO, and FALSTAFF. We'll take a few classes to get to know Shakespeare and Verdi, then we'll spend the rest of the semester studying each play and each libretto, reading criticism and other source information concerning each work, and watching play performance and opera production. We'll also explore the decisions involved in the musical adaptation of a literary text. Students should leave the class with a working knowledge of these two men of the theatre, a thorough knowledge of each play and each opera, insight to how criticism makes meaning of literature and music, and insight into both artistic production and artistic adaptation.
*This course meets the Literature Core LE requirement.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/54782/1193
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
6 March 2017

Spring 2019  |  ENGL 3061 Section 002: Literature and Music (66307)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Discussion
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/22/2019 - 05/06/2019
Tue 04:00PM - 06:30PM
UMTC, East Bank
Lind Hall 302
Enrollment Status:
Open (29 of 30 seats filled)
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
In this course, we will explore the connections and parallels between music and literature, assessing both form and content and drawing upon various genres from both arts. We will examine some of the ways that musical and literary texts can change, subvert, or augment each other by applying critical and literary theories to intertextual readings. Among the subjects we may discuss are how authors use music in their work, both structurally and topically; how musicians use literature, both as lyric and as subject matter; and how members of each group engage the artistic assumptions of the other. Students will gain a greater appreciation of the varied forms of creative expression and an increased understanding of how they influence each other through close reading and listening, discussions, reflective writing, and presentations.
Class Notes:
Chops, loops, samples, turntablism, drops, 808s - for decades, modes of Hip Hop production have been in sonic conversation with compositions from a wide-range of musical genres. Yet, what about textual composition? By which I mean, besides bars? In this class, we'll consider what Hip Hop music has to tell us about techniques for reading and writing, creating interventions into essays and research. Through close listening and reading, we'll explore aspects of Hip Hop production and poetics in order to better understand the aesthetic concepts we encounter. Essays, poetry, plays, and a graphic novel, will help us examine how different authors have engaged Hip Hop compositional methods through their work. We'll also experiment through rigorous yet ludic adventures in writing, where we'll break our essays down to the formula of "Claim/Evidence/Analysis" and rebuild them using found Hip Hop methodologies.
Class Description:
In celebration of Bob Dylan's being awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, the University of Minnesota English Department will offer a special section of ENGL 3061 (Literature and Music) focused on "The Literary Bob Dylan."

The course will explore the music of Bob Dylan, one of the most critically acclaimed and culturally influential musicians of all time. Dylan, who was born Bob Zimmerman in Duluth and grew up in Hibbing, took his stage name from the Welsh poet Dylan Thomas and has regularly named poets as some of his greatest influences, alongside other folk musicians. This course will examine Dylan's literary influences and his influence on literature, as well as question the dividing line between music and poetry.

Students will pay special attention to Dylan's wide variety of formal strategies (the epigram, the couplet, balladry, surrealism, etc.) and their relation to poetic history in hopes of discovering new contexts for a musician who is continually reinventing himself. At the same time, they will consider the tensions these forms and their histories created in Dylan's musical career (manifest, for example, in the "going electric" controversy at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival). Students will also situate Dylan's music, particularly his early work, in its historical and political context in order to consider, for example, strategies for cultivating empathy/sympathy through language and poetic form in the context of the Civil Rights movement ("Only a Pawn in Their Game," "The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll") and to question the possibilities for a poetics of protest in the context of the Vietnam War ("A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall," "Masters of War").

Texts will likely include: Studio A: The Bob Dylan Reader, Chronicles (Dylan's memoirs), Dylan's music and liner notes, as well as Woody Guthrie's autobiography (Bound for Glory). We will also read selections from Arthur Rimbaud, Paul Verlaine, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Joyce Carol Oates, Hunter S. Thompson, Dylan Thomas, Robert Burns, Walt Whitman, T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Paul Muldoon, and William Gay, among others.

In order to allow students to trace Dylan's living legacy and critically examine the poetics of current folk music, the class will attend a local concert (schedule and cost permitting).

This course meets the Literature Core Liberal Education requirement.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/66307/1193
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
6 March 2017

Fall 2018  |  ENGL 3061 Section 001: Literature and Music (20278)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Discussion
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
09/04/2018 - 12/12/2018
Mon 04:00PM - 06:30PM
UMTC, East Bank
Lind Hall 217
Enrollment Status:
Open (27 of 30 seats filled)
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
In this course, we will explore the connections and parallels between music and literature, assessing both form and content and drawing upon various genres from both arts. We will examine some of the ways that musical and literary texts can change, subvert, or augment each other by applying critical and literary theories to intertextual readings. Among the subjects we may discuss are how authors use music in their work, both structurally and topically; how musicians use literature, both as lyric and as subject matter; and how members of each group engage the artistic assumptions of the other. Students will gain a greater appreciation of the varied forms of creative expression and an increased understanding of how they influence each other through close reading and listening, discussions, reflective writing, and presentations.
Class Notes:
http://classinfo.umn.edu/?gonza049+ENGL3061+Fall2018
Class Description:
The Literature of Rock and Roll

In this course, we will study how the mass culture of rock and roll music, and its impact on our lives, is interpreted by key critics and musicians. By reading and discussing several novels set in the rock world and several works of non-fiction about the lives of rock musicians, we will find ways to integrate our own tastes and obsessions with popular music. Short papers, group projects, and close analysis of the texts will be required. DVD documentaries and music will be played on a weekly basis.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/20278/1189
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
19 October 2017

Spring 2018  |  ENGL 3061 Section 001: Literature and Music (51679)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Discussion
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/16/2018 - 05/04/2018
Mon 04:00PM - 06:30PM
UMTC, East Bank
Lind Hall 229
Enrollment Status:
Open (29 of 30 seats filled)
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
In this course, we will explore the connections and parallels between music and literature, assessing both form and content and drawing upon various genres from both arts. We will examine some of the ways that musical and literary texts can change, subvert, or augment each other by applying critical and literary theories to intertextual readings. Among the subjects we may discuss are how authors use music in their work, both structurally and topically; how musicians use literature, both as lyric and as subject matter; and how members of each group engage the artistic assumptions of the other. Students will gain a greater appreciation of the varied forms of creative expression and an increased understanding of how they influence each other through close reading and listening, discussions, reflective writing, and presentations.
Class Notes:
http://classinfo.umn.edu/?gonza049+ENGL3061+Spring2018
Class Description:
The Literature of Rock and Roll

In this course, we will study how the mass culture of rock and roll music, and its impact on our lives, is interpreted by key critics and musicians. By reading and discussing several novels set in the rock world and several works of non-fiction about the lives of rock musicians, we will find ways to integrate our own tastes and obsessions with popular music. Short papers, group projects, and close analysis of the texts will be required. DVD documentaries and music will be played on a weekly basis.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/51679/1183
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
19 October 2017

Spring 2018  |  ENGL 3061 Section 002: Literature and Music (68769)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Discussion
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/16/2018 - 05/04/2018
Tue, Thu 09:45AM - 11:00AM
UMTC, East Bank
Burton Hall 120
Enrollment Status:
Closed (30 of 30 seats filled)
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
In this course, we will explore the connections and parallels between music and literature, assessing both form and content and drawing upon various genres from both arts. We will examine some of the ways that musical and literary texts can change, subvert, or augment each other by applying critical and literary theories to intertextual readings. Among the subjects we may discuss are how authors use music in their work, both structurally and topically; how musicians use literature, both as lyric and as subject matter; and how members of each group engage the artistic assumptions of the other. Students will gain a greater appreciation of the varied forms of creative expression and an increased understanding of how they influence each other through close reading and listening, discussions, reflective writing, and presentations.
Class Notes:
http://classinfo.umn.edu/?kame0026+ENGL3061+Spring2018
Class Description:
Revolutions per Minute: Punk Rock and Hip Hop In this course, we'll explore the cultural realms of PUNK ROCK and HIP HOP with the help of cultural history and theory, fiction, poetry, graphic texts, film and video, and of, course, the songs themselves. Here are some of the things we'll do: *excavate the pre-history of each genre and pay particular attention to the times and places they have in common (such as the crucial incubator of New York in the 1970s) *read around in literary works in the spirit of our subjects *consider each genre's attendant aesthetic dimensions of fashion and visual art * investigate the role of race, gender, and sexuality in the cultures (and the evolution of same) * track the regional and global movements of each culture * investigate the counter-cultural significance of sampling and deconstruction * interrogate the discourses of authenticity and community that have proven (in each culture) to be both powerful and complicated * watch a couple of films from the early 80s * listen to weekly "sets" of songs. There will also be some short writing assignments, a couple of quizzes, and some sort of presentation.
*This course meets the Literature Core LE requirement.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/68769/1183
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
6 March 2017

Fall 2017  |  ENGL 3061 Section 001: Literature and Music (17455)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Discussion
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
09/05/2017 - 12/13/2017
Tue, Thu 01:00PM - 02:15PM
UMTC, East Bank
Lind Hall 325
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
Explores various parallels/intersections between literature and music, in terms of both form/content. Musical genres vary by instructor.
Class Notes:
http://classinfo.umn.edu/?sirc+ENGL3061+Fall2017
Class Description:
Shakespeare/Verdi: The single-most glorious intersection of Literature and Music is opera, of course. It follows, then, that great opera based on great literature gives us the best of both worlds, and the most brilliant example of literature-based opera would have to be Verdi's adaptations of 3 of Shakespeare's plays. This course will explore the Literature/Music nexus through a detailed look at 3 of William Shakespeare's plays - MACBETH, OTHELLO, and THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR - along with the 3 operas Giuseppe Verdi based on those works - MACBETH, OTELLO, and FALSTAFF. We'll take a few classes to get to know Shakespeare and Verdi, then we'll spend the rest of the semester studying each play and each libretto, reading criticism and other source information concerning each work, and watching play performance and opera production. We'll also explore the decisions involved in the musical adaptation of a literary text. Students should leave the class with a working knowledge of these two men of the theatre, a thorough knowledge of each play and each opera, insight to how criticism makes meaning of literature and music, and insight into both artistic production and artistic adaptation.
*This course meets the Literature Core LE requirement.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/17455/1179
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
6 March 2017

Summer 2017  |  ENGL 3061 Section 001: Literature and Music (87948)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Discussion
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
06/12/2017 - 08/04/2017
Mon, Wed 04:40PM - 08:00PM
UMTC, East Bank
Ford Hall 127
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
Explores various parallels/intersections between literature and music, in terms of both form/content. Musical genres vary by instructor.
Class Notes:
http://classinfo.umn.edu/?krie0210+ENGL3061+Summer2017
Class Description:
In celebration of Bob Dylan's being awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, the University of Minnesota English Department will offer a special section of ENGL 3061 (Literature and Music) focused on "The Literary Bob Dylan."

The course will explore the music of Bob Dylan, one of the most critically acclaimed and culturally influential musicians of all time. Dylan, who was born Bob Zimmerman in Duluth and grew up in Hibbing, took his stage name from the Welsh poet Dylan Thomas and has regularly named poets as some of his greatest influences, alongside other folk musicians. This course will examine Dylan's literary influences and his influence on literature, as well as question the dividing line between music and poetry.

Students will pay special attention to Dylan's wide variety of formal strategies (the epigram, the couplet, balladry, surrealism, etc.) and their relation to poetic history in hopes of discovering new contexts for a musician who is continually reinventing himself. At the same time, they will consider the tensions these forms and their histories created in Dylan's musical career (manifest, for example, in the "going electric" controversy at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival). Students will also situate Dylan's music, particularly his early work, in its historical and political context in order to consider, for example, strategies for cultivating empathy/sympathy through language and poetic form in the context of the Civil Rights movement ("Only a Pawn in Their Game," "The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll") and to question the possibilities for a poetics of protest in the context of the Vietnam War ("A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall," "Masters of War").

Texts will likely include: Studio A: The Bob Dylan Reader, Chronicles (Dylan's memoirs), Dylan's music and liner notes, as well as Woody Guthrie's autobiography (Bound for Glory). We will also read selections from Arthur Rimbaud, Paul Verlaine, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Joyce Carol Oates, Hunter S. Thompson, Dylan Thomas, Robert Burns, Walt Whitman, T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Paul Muldoon, and William Gay, among others.

In order to allow students to trace Dylan's living legacy and critically examine the poetics of current folk music, the class will attend a local concert (schedule and cost permitting).

This course meets the Literature Core Liberal Education requirement.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/87948/1175
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
6 March 2017

Spring 2017  |  ENGL 3061 Section 001: Literature and Music (52535)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Discussion
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/17/2017 - 05/05/2017
Mon, Wed 01:00PM - 02:15PM
UMTC, East Bank
Lind Hall 325
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
Explores various parallels/intersections between literature and music, in terms of both form/content. Musical genres vary by instructor.
Class Notes:
http://classinfo.umn.edu/?sirc+ENGL3061+Spring2017
Class Description:
Shakespeare/Verdi: The single-most glorious intersection of Literature and Music is opera, of course. It follows, then, that great opera based on great literature gives us the best of both worlds, and the most brilliant example of literature-based opera would have to be Verdi's adaptations of 3 of Shakespeare's plays. This course will explore the Literature/Music nexus through a detailed look at 3 of William Shakespeare's plays - MACBETH, OTHELLO, and THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR - along with the 3 operas Giuseppe Verdi based on those works - MACBETH, OTELLO, and FALSTAFF. We'll take a few classes to get to know Shakespeare and Verdi, then we'll spend the rest of the semester studying each play and each libretto, reading criticism and other source information concerning each work, and watching play performance and opera production. We'll also explore the decisions involved in the musical adaptation of a literary text. Students should leave the class with a working knowledge of these two men of the theatre, a thorough knowledge of each play and each opera, insight to how criticism makes meaning of literature and music, and insight into both artistic production and artistic adaptation.
*This course meets the Literature Core LE requirement.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/52535/1173
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
13 October 2016

Fall 2016  |  ENGL 3061 Section 001: Literature and Music (18260)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Discussion
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
09/06/2016 - 12/14/2016
Mon, Wed 04:00PM - 05:15PM
UMTC, East Bank
Amundson Hall 156
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
Explores various parallels/intersections between literature and music, in terms of both form/content. Musical genres vary by instructor.
Class Notes:
http://classinfo.umn.edu/?kame0026+ENGL3061+Fall2016
Class Description:
Revolutions per Minute: Punk Rock and Hip Hop In this course, we'll explore the cultural realms of PUNK ROCK and HIP HOP with the help of cultural history and theory, fiction, poetry, graphic texts, film and video, and of, course, the songs themselves. Here are some of the things we'll do: *excavate the pre-history of each genre and pay particular attention to the times and places they have in common (such as the crucial incubator of New York in the 1970s) *read around in literary works in the spirit of our subjects *consider each genre's attendant aesthetic dimensions of fashion and visual art * investigate the role of race, gender, and sexuality in the cultures (and the evolution of same) * track the regional and global movements of each culture * investigate the counter-cultural significance of sampling and deconstruction * interrogate the discourses of authenticity and community that have proven (in each culture) to be both powerful and complicated * watch a couple of films from the early 80s * listen to weekly "sets" of songs. There will also be some short writing assignments, a couple of quizzes, and some sort of presentation.
*This course meets the Literature Core LE requirement.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/18260/1169
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
4 April 2016

Spring 2016  |  ENGL 3061 Section 001: Literature and Music (61129)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Discussion
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/19/2016 - 05/06/2016
Tue, Thu 01:00PM - 02:15PM
UMTC, East Bank
Lind Hall 320
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
Explore various parallels/intersections between literature/music, both in terms of form/content.
Class Notes:
http://classinfo.umn.edu/?sirc+ENGL3061+Spring2016
Class Description:
LITERATURE & MUSIC: SHAKESPEARE & VERDI
This course satisfies the Literature Core requirement.
The single-most glorious intersection of Literature and Music is opera, of course. It follows, then, that great opera based on great literature gives us the best of both worlds, and the most brilliant example of literature-based opera would have to be Verdi's adaptations of 3 of Shakespeare's plays. This course will explore the Literature/Music nexus through a detailed look at 3 of William Shakespeare's plays - MACBETH, OTHELLO, and THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR - along with the 3 operas Giuseppe Verdi based on those works - MACBETH, OTELLO, and FALSTAFF. We'll take a few classes to get to know Shakespeare and Verdi, then we'll spend the rest of the semester studying each play and each libretto, reading criticism concerning each work, and watching play performance and opera production. We'll also explore the decisions involved in the musical adaptation of a literary text. There will be quizzes on each of the 6 major readings (plays and libretti), several short writings as well as one longer course paper, and a group presentation. Students should leave the class with a working knowledge of these two men of the theatre, a thorough knowledge of each play and each opera, appreciation of how criticism makes meaning of literature and music, and insight into both artistic production and artistic adaptation.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/61129/1163
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
28 October 2015

Fall 2015  |  ENGL 3061 Section 001: Literature and Music (34250)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Discussion
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
09/08/2015 - 12/16/2015
Tue, Thu 09:45AM - 11:00AM
UMTC, East Bank
Lind Hall 203
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
Explore various parallels/intersections between literature/music, both in terms of form/content.
Class Notes:
http://classinfo.umn.edu/?kame0026+ENGL3061+Fall2015
Class Description:
Revolutions per Minute: Punk Rock and Hip Hop In this course, we'll explore the cultural realms of PUNK ROCK and HIP HOP with the help of cultural history and theory, fiction, poetry, graphic texts, film and video, and of, course, the songs themselves. Here are some of the things we'll do: *excavate the pre-history of each genre and pay particular attention to the times and places they have in common (such as the crucial incubator of New York in the 1970s) *read around in literary works in the spirit of our subjects *consider each genre's attendant aesthetic dimensions of fashion and visual art * investigate the role of race, gender, and sexuality in the cultures (and the evolution of same) * track the regional and global movements of each culture * investigate the counter-cultural significance of sampling and deconstruction * interrogate the discourses of authenticity and community that have proven (in each culture) to be both powerful and complicated * watch a couple of films from the early 80s * listen to weekly "sets" of songs. There will also be some short writing assignments, a couple of quizzes, and some sort of presentation.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/34250/1159
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
30 March 2015

Spring 2015  |  ENGL 3061 Section 001: Literature and Music (69156)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Discussion
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/20/2015 - 05/08/2015
Tue, Thu 11:15AM - 12:30PM
UMTC, East Bank
Wulling Hall 220
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
Explore various parallels/intersections between literature/music, both in terms of form/content.
Class Description:
In the 1986 Smiths song "Cemetery Gates," Morrissey claims, "Keats and Yeats are on your side, while Wilde is on mine." Is this simply a singer using famous literary figures to claim authority, or does it reveal something more complex about the central relationship in the song? Does it reveal something about how Morrissey himself perceives his music's role in literary or popular culture? Can it change how listeners hear the musical content of the song, beyond the lyrical content? In this class, we will explore these and other connections and parallels between music and literature, assessing both form and content and drawing upon a wide range of genres from both arts. We will examine some of the ways that musical and literary texts can change, subvert, or augment each other by applying critical and literary theories to intertextual readings. Among the subjects we will discuss are how authors use music in their work, both structurally and topically; how musicians use literature, both as lyric and as subject matter; and how members of each group engage the artistic assumptions of the other. Students will gain a greater appreciation of the varied forms of creative expression and an increased understanding of how they influence each other through close reading and listening, discussions, reflective writing, and presentations. Literary texts will range from music criticism to novels to poetry, while musical texts will include contemporary American popular songs as well as music from the Classical canon. This course satisfies the Literature Core requirement.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/69156/1153
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
15 October 2014

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