Divide and Assimilate: Read/Listen/Events

View, read and listen:
Orliac, Easter Island Mystery of the stone Giants p.30-1 Map (eRes)
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Opera, P.237 (eRes)
Rick Ayers, “South Pacific - Musical Orientalism”
Sandy Kobrin, “Asian-Americans Criticize Eyelid Surgery Craze”
“Whistler and Japanese Influence”

James McNeill Whistler, “La Princess du pays de la porcelaine”
James McNeill Whistler. Symphony in Blue and Pink
James McNeill Whistler. The Gentle Art of Making Enemies

“Madame Butterfly Synopsis”
“Permanent Art and Monuments”




Suggestions for group project:
• http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?soryId=15251814&ft=1&f=1003 (link currently broken - working on it!)
http://history1900s.about.com/cs/japaneseamcamps/
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/245835/the_current_influence_of_japanese_horror.html
• Go see the Musical “Passing Strange” and show current race/other issues
Read Amitav Gosh, “Shadow lines” give us a glimpse into self-identity under hegemony
http://www.92y.org/shop/event_detail.asp?productid=T%2DTP5MS12
• Orientalism
http://www.wmich.edu/dialogues/texts/orientalism.htm
http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&id=GJb0T939CHEC&dq=aesthetics&printsec=frontcover&source=web&ots=2CG5d_MTDg&sig=t-wRbkQQ9pUHF1qK0bDcA2_htzY&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=7&ct=result

Check this place out:  http://www.thestonenyc.com/index.html

The first eight lectures are foundational. You examine the origins of opera and the adaptations of other musical forms that allowed opera to achieve its full effects, first accomplished in Monteverdi’s Orfeo of 1607.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/27/arts/music/27butter.html
http://www.japanreview.net/review_madame.htm
http://nymag.com/arts/classicaldance/classical/reviews/21971/
http://books.google.com/books?id=w2MNAAAAIAAJ&dq=madam+butterfly+reviews&pg=PP1&o
http://books.google.com/books?id=lo4ME3HdHPUC&pg=PA160&dq=madam+butterfly+reviews
http://books.google.com/books?id=QqMijUkfsccC&pg=PA105&dq=madam+butterfly+reviews#PPA128,M1

Class Related Events:
8/21 @8:00 PM “South Pacific” Musical Theater, Lincoln center
8/28 @10:00AM discussion of South pacific, HN611
9/4   @10:30AM “The face of the other” Interactive Lecture at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
9/11 @10:00AM “Public and Private War: monuments or memorials
TBA @8:00PM “Madam Butterfly”, City Opera, Lincoln center