Music

MUSC 81C Global Popular Music

This cultural study of global popular musics explores musical sounds, practices, and discourse via an examination of the development of the category world music. It explores how music and mass media engage broader issues around globalization, ethnic, national, and transnational identities; popular resistance; censorship; and cultural hegemony.

Credits

5

General Education Code

ER

Quarter offered

Winter

Instructor

Tanya Merchant, Nicol Hammond