Harmonizing Cultures: Music and Global Society

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This course explores music’s multifaceted role in the human experience, emphasizing the cultural, social, and global contexts in which it exists through the lens of research conducted in multicultural Singapore. Students will engage with music from various traditions, reflecting on its impact on global interconnectivity and its contribution to our understanding of humanity. Through research, critical analysis, and presentations, students will investigate how music shapes cultural identities, influences global markets and politics, and reflects the complexities of what it means to be human.