WORLD MUSIC

Catalog description

An examination of music and musical traditions throughout the world with focus on non-Western music. This course uses a cross-cultural framework through which the student will understand music as an evolving, geographically unrestrained form of human expression that has both unique characteristics and common elements across cultures. Music from all over the world (including genres from most of Africa, India, the U.S., China, Vietnam, Syria, the Pacific Islands, Tibet, and Japan, Central and South America, and the Arabic world) will be looked at through the lenses of sound, setting and significance: critical, informed listening, understanding how it functions within a culture and in people's lives, and how and why they consume music.