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Dec 21, 2024
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2023-2024 College Catalog [***ATTENTION: THIS IS AN ARCHIVED CATALOG***]
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MUS 240 - Music of World Cultures
Credits: 3
Lab/Lecture: Three lecture.
This course is intended as a broad survey of music and its place in human cultures around the world, with a focus on non-Western Cultures. We will consider traditional, popular, and classical music from a number of regions in an ethnomusicological perspective, highlighting similarities and differences in music’s relation to other domains of social life, such as cosmology, art, language, economics, and politics, cross-culturally. Ultimately, the purpose of this class is to better understand music and the many ways it can be meaningful as a part of the world’s cultural diversity.
Course Outcomes:
Students will be able to:
- identify music and musical attributes and values from around the world;
- develop an understanding of a variety of music-cultures from around the globe and how those music-cultures fit into global society;
- situate the music from each of the regions studied within a specific social, cultural, and historical context;
- apply the various cultural theories (anthropological, sociological, and ethnomusicological) discussed in the course to their own musical experiences;
- discuss the ways in which music and identity are linked within social and cultural formations, particularly along axes of race, gender, class, and ethnicity;
- evaluate the validity of established canons and categories conventionally employed to study music and their usefulness for cross-cultural analysis.
General Education: Arts and Humanities. Contemporary Global/International or Historical Awareness.
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