Gender, Body, Sound is an upper-level seminar focused on developing a critical stance toward the study of gender and sexuality by taking ethnomusicology’s and feminism’s insights into account. We will explore the power dynamics that play into the social construction of performance and the body across various socio-cultural settings, and the myriad ways human beings, including ourselves, have fashioned social and musical distinctions based on gender and sexuality over time. Through the lens of music and performance, we will critically engage with a wide variety of approaches, tactics, and discourses from musicians and artivists around the world working to further LGBTQIA+ rights, and examine the politics of gendered and sexual identities across a number of transnational contexts. Our investigation will explore how gender and sexuality can be musical - how musical bodies are constructed, maintained, defied, and challenged through performative realms - in ways that allow us to envision possibilities for the field and our world beyond heteronormative domains. 1 unit - Carrizo