MUSC 324 - Survey of World Popular Music

Units: 3

An introduction both to the great diversity of the world’s popular musics, and to some of the issues involved in the production of popular music worldwide. Musics addressed will cover a broad geographic area, including parts of Africa, the Americas, Europe, the Middle-East, and South, East, and Southeast Asia. Issues of religion, gender, politics, ethnic or regional identity, cultural property, appropriation, and mass-media will be examined as influential factors informing popular music practices across geographic and cultural boundaries.

Satisfies GE area: CC