Music and the World Wars

Catalog description

This course shows how 20th century deviations from traditional Western musical parameters defined European and American art music not only as falling within the canonic continuum of development and innovation, but simultaneously as an eclectic collection transformed and considerably influenced by the World Wars and by non-Western aesthetic techniques, philosophy, and practice. Course methodology incorporates studies of the musicological-societal forces that shape the examined music's background, composition, reception, and place in history with relevant analysis drawn from cultural and social history.