MUSC 110 - Music Cultures of the World

5 Credits

This introductory course will survey selected music cultures from Oceania, Asia, Africa, Europe, the Caribbean, and North, Central and South America. We will explore how societies develop and organize sound into music, how they articulate music’s place within their own culture, and how musical practice and performance maintain, challenge, or transform cultural identities. We will build our knowledge through lectures, discussions, hands-on activities, academic writings, “traditional” and “popular” sound recordings, and film.

Course Note Previously MUSIC 110.
Fees

Quarters Typically Offered

Fall Day, Evening
Winter Day, Evening
Spring Day, Evening

Designed to Serve Any student interested in music and culture.
Active Date 2012-06-25

Grading System Decimal Grade
Class Limit 38
Contact Hours: Lecture 55 Lab 0 Worksite 0 Clinical 0 Other 0
Total Contact Hours 55
Degree Distributions:
AA

Diversity & Globalism
Humanities Area II

Course Outline
Fundamental issues in music, culture, and identity

Selected culture areas divided into weekly units

Student Learning Outcomes
Delineate how a particular music's organizational principles map onto various non-musical aspects of a society such as culture, race, gender and nationalism.

Interpret the social function of music in its cultural context drawing on concepts from Ethnomusicology and other disciplines.

Accurately explain a musical piece’s cultural origin, and musical components and concepts.

Evaluate self-engagement with music based on one’s own and other diverse music cultures.