MUS240 — Music of World Cultures
Lecture: Three lecture. This course is intended as a broad survey of music and its place in human cultures around the world, with a focus on non-Western Cultures. We will consider traditional, popular, and classical music from a number of regions in an ethnomusicological perspective, highlighting similarities and differences in music’s relation to other domains of social life, such as cosmology, art, language, economics, and politics, cross-culturally. Ultimately, the purpose of this class is to better understand music and the many ways it can be meaningful as a part of the world’s cultural diversity. Course