MUSIC 3205 - [Cultural Studies of Music]

(CA-AS)

Fall. Offered on demand. 4 credits. Letter grades only.

A. Madrid.

Discussion of basic cultural studies concepts through music; including concepts like class, race, gender, intertextuality, everyday life, representation, identity, consumption, community, subculture, and transculturation. Particular emphasis will be placed on questions of: immigration, orality, diaspora, technology, modernism/modernity, nationalism/transnationalism, postmodernism vs. postcoloniality, and the political economy of music.

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