World Music
This course is designed to give students a broad overview of various musics from around the world. Over the course of the semester, students will learn how various societies view, perform, use, and disseminate music and gain respect for these musics through deeper understanding of their materials, processes, and values within their respective cultures. Our goal is to develop acute listening skills in order to identify the geographic origin of musical examples and associate appropriate cultural values with them.
As a class, students will explore music from Sub-Saharan Africa, Indigenous American cultures, Latin America, South Asia, East Asia, Southeast Asia, and others. In addition, students will choose an additional music-culture to research individually.
As a class, students will explore music from Sub-Saharan Africa, Indigenous American cultures, Latin America, South Asia, East Asia, Southeast Asia, and others. In addition, students will choose an additional music-culture to research individually.