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Yotam Haber, UNO-IBK International Summer School Yotam Haber, UNO-IBK International Summer School

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HUMS 2090 - Contemporary Art and Popular Music in Austria

SE 3

3

not applicable

annually

English

-          Students will be able to identify seminal Austrian musical works of the 20th and 21st centuries and understand their importance in an historical context.

-          Students will be able to synthesize various critical points of view and draw an independent critique through oral and written argument.

-          Students will be able to identify seminal visual art works of the Austrian 20th and 21st centuries and understand their importance in an historical context.

-          Students will be able to characterize and classify both musical and visual art works into significant stylistic periods of the 20th and 21st centuries

A study of the intersections, practices, techniques, and schools of contemporary art and popular music in Austria. Austria has historically had a rich tradition of radical artistic revolution. Today, it is one of the world’s great epicenters of cutting-edge, experimental and avant-garde music and art.

We will closely examine the rise in the 1970s of the seminal Austrian theater-rock band Drahdiwaberl, and the political/cabaret-inspired Die Schmetterlinge. We trace a path through New Wave and Funk, to underground bands of the 80s, Falco (of “Rock Me Amadeus” fame), Heavy Metal, Punk, and R’n’B, to the gender-defying pop sensation, Conchita Wurst, winner of the 2014 Eurovision Song Contest, and recent electronic music by Der Schwimmer and Tosca. We will explore Rodgers and Hammerstein’s The Sound of Music and its critical reception in Austria.

Contemporary Austrian visual artists now work in a culturally diverse, globally influenced, and technologically advancing world. Their art is a layered combination of methods, materials, concepts, and subjects that challenge all boundaries. We will study the work of Günter Brus, Martin Arnold, and Brigitte Kowanz, among many others.

Contemporary art and music are part of a dialogue that concerns larger frameworks such as individual and cultural identity, community, and nationality. Throughout the course, we learn how music and visual art in the 20th and 21st centuries have been continually influenced and shaped by turbulent European history and politics. This course has a fieldwork component with several concerts and gallery exhibitions. There will be a mandatory trip to visit Dachau in week 1.

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