Survey of World Popular Music

Catalog description

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: UD3