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     2017 年度   国際社会学部
  
現代世界論概論ⅠA   
時間割コード
322301G
担当教員(ローマ字表記)
  マニュエル・ヤン [Manuel YANG]
授業開講形態 授業形態 単位数 学期 曜日・時限 実務経験のある教員による授業
    2 秋学期 火4 -
授業題目(和文)   
 
Title(English)   
Survey of Bob Dylan as U.S. Social History
 
授業の目標   
 
Goals of the course   
For class participants to deepen their understanding of the relationship between culture, power, and contemporary history, relate their relevant experiences, and share their thoughts in discussion and writing.
 
授業の概要   
 
Overview of the course   
Bob Dylan’s music offers a crucial key to understanding U.S. traditional popular culture and people’s history. This is because the desires, poetry, and wisdom of the American people (folk) are compressed in their root music (blues, country, gospel, folk), which influenced him deeply. Moreover, given his pivotal cultural impact worldwide, Dylan can be studied as a cultural index of changing contemporary historical conditions from the 1950s to the present.

How did Dylan come to embody the tradition of American root music and reflect his times, from the 1950s-60s -- when he came of age and became a seminal figure in the counterculture -- to today, when has been canonized as an icon in the pantheon of American literature and culture? In this class, we will look at Dylan's relationship to his own times and the hidden, often forgotten sources of U.S. traditional popular culture, which shape his work.

Dylan’s songs will serve as our point of departure to explore the Cold War, Beat literature, civil rights struggles, labor movement, New Left, popular urban rebellions, Christianity, American power and ideology. What does Dylan and the old blues and folk songs say about crime, disaster, God, and poverty? What do they teach us about love, faith, hope, and being human? And, not least of all, what is Dylan’s relevance to our own history and culture?
 
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授業の計画   
 
Plan   
(The following schedule is provisional and may change)

1 Introduction
Bob Dylan and I

2 Between the Ghost of Robert Johnson and the Spectacle of the Super Bowl Commercial
Deep Blues vs. Society of the Spectacle

3 The Shadow of "American Dream" Falls on the "House I Live In"
Frank Sinatra and the Study of American Civilization

4 Whose Land Is This? I
From the Sacred Grand Canyon to the Land of the Dying Cowboy and Hobo

5 Whose Land Is This? II
Land of Indigenous Commons "as Long as Grass Grows or Water Runs"

6 How Shall We Overcome I
"Aesthetic Dimension" in the Sparks of Direct Action Linking Workers and the Civil Rights Movement

7 How Shall We Overcome II
Day of Black Panther and Weatherman Fighting Mr. Jones, Night of Drifters, Hobos, and Outlaws Escaping "This World" of "One Big Prison Yard"

8 An Artist Who Paints His Self-Portrait in the Watchtower and a Worker Who Can't Get Away from the Rebel City
Rodriguez, Motown, and the Detroit Working Class

9 Yankee Power Erasing the High Water Mark of Rolling Thunder
Hunter S. Thompson on Jimmie Carter on Bob Dylan

10 Infidels Born and Born Again in Union Sundown
Evangelical Christianity and Liberation Theology

11 Decline and Fall of Empire Burlesque Singer and Lucky Wilbury
Fredric Jameson's Postmodernism Meets 1980s USA

12 Dylan's Late Style
Late Edward Said, Dylan's Personal Folk Revival

13 Land Where the Blues Was Born and Dies
Alan Lomax, Harry Smith, and the Roots of American Root Music

14 Song and Dance Man in the Age of Trump
Dylanology, Trumpism, and Fall of the American Empire

15 Conclusion
Radical Side of Bob Dylan and America
 
成績評価の方法・基準   
 
Grading system for assessment   
Students are required each week to read/view the assigned materials, write summary/commentary on them, and participate in discussion. In addition, students will write take-home essays.

40% Take-home essay exam
60% Weekly writing assignment and class discussion
 
事前・事後学習【要する時間の目安】   
 
Preview/review   
Do the readings/assignments on time.
 
履修上の注意   
 
Notes   
Participate fully in class discussion.
 
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使用言語  
英語(E)
 
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