SAA 10: Arts Encounters: Exploring Arts Literacy in the Twenty-First Century

Weekly Readings

Week 1: Leo Tolstoy: excerpts from What is Art?

Week 2:

Joseph Kerman, excerpts from Opera as Drama

Mozart: Don Giovanni

The String Quartet

Week 3:

Hi Everyone -- Remember that we are not reading these excerpts for facts as much as we are reading to gain an understanding of the rich cultural context in which theatre operates.

Excerpts from Oscar Brockett, The History of Theatre:

The Origins of Theatre

Theatre and Drama in Ancient Greece

English Theatre from the Middle Ages to 1642

Week 4: Chapter 1 of John Berger's book, Ways of Seeing

Week 5: Kodo

Week 6:

Week 7: Audio recordings played in class

Week 8:

Week 9: THE IDEA OF THE AMERICAN BUILDING [from G.E. Kidder Smith's Sourcebook of American Architecture, New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1996]

Week 10: From Club Cultures (1996) by Sarah Thornton

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