MUSIC 2341 - Gamelan in Indonesian History and Cultures

(crosslisted) ASIAN 2245, VISST 2744
(GB) (LA-AS, ALC-AS) (CU-ITL)

Fall. 3 credits. Student option grading.

No previous knowledge of musical notation or performance experience necessary.

C. Miller.

This course combines hands-on instruction in gamelan, Indonesia’s most prominent form of traditional music, and the academic study of the broader range of music found in contemporary Indonesia, including Western-oriented and hybrid popular forms. Students thus engage with music directly, and use it as a lens to examine the myriad social and cultural forces that shape it, and that are shaped by it.