MUSI 3510 - Sound Justice -
MUSI 3510 - Sound Justice -
This class explores connections between
sound, listening, and the law.
How do legal proceedings play out in sound?
What does the law hear – and what does it not?
What happens when legal systems fail?
In exploring these and other questions and engaging in creative advocacy, student will directly engage with the Sound Justice Lab and its ongoing projects, relating to issues such as reproductive justice, defamation lawsuits against journalists, gender equity and refugees, and the use of rap lyrics as criminal evidence. Course materials include court cases and transcripts, music, film, novels, and academic articles. The class has a civic engagement component that offers students opportunities to work with lawyers, artists, and social justice practitioners in Charlottesville and beyond to produce research and creative work. It also provides a space to respond to and engage current events through individual and collective art making. The class can be used to fulfill the music major requirements, but musical or other artistic experience is not necessary.
With Professors Nomi Dave & Bonnie Gordon | Tuesday & Thursday 9:30am - 10:45am
Voice and Silence in Law and Literature |
Voice and Silence in Law and Literature |
Participants in this short course will explore the legal, literary, and cultural mechanisms that amplify the voices of some speakers, while silencing the voices of others.
What are the norms and processes through which legal and literary texts endorse some stories – and their associated justice claims – as true, while discarding others as false?
What methodologies – ranging from the legal to the literary to the cultural – may we use to bring into the canon the neglected perspectives of people of color, women, LGBTQ+ folks, and the poor?
We’ll explore narrative conventions and cultural norms, as well as legal technologies, that determine whose voices are heard and whose are not.
Our texts will be eclectic, including stories, memoirs, poetry, film, music, investigative journalism, legal cases, excerpts from police how-to manuals, and public-welfare assistance forms.
With Professor Anne Coughlin
And Lawyer & Poet Amy Woolard
3/27 - 4/6
Monday - Thursday
6:00 - 7:30pm
This short course is fully enrolled.