MUS X80 MUS 380 Advanced Topics in the History and Culture of Music 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Historical and cultural studies of the music of various periods or places. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Graduate standing.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: May be repeated for credit when the topics vary.
Academic Level: Doctoral
Topic 1: Medieval.
Topic 2: Renaissance.
Topic 3: Baroque.
Topic 4: Eighteenth Century.
Topic 5: Nineteenth Century.
Topic 6: Twentieth Century.
Topic 11: Music of Mexico and the Caribbean. Introduction to the history of Mexican and Caribbean traditional and commercial music, with some discussion of classical music as well. Explore music of indigenous, African, European, and mixed origin.
Topic 12: Music of Latin America. Consider Latin American music within a broad cultural and historical framework. Latin American musical practices are explored illustrating the many ways that aesthetics and society are embodied in and negotiated through performance. Concepts include diaspora, colonialism, mestizaje, hybridity, migration and globalization.
Topic 13: Music of Brazil and Argentina. An introduction to Brazilian and Argentinian music from samba, capoeira, and forro to tango, cumbia villera, and chacarera; examines such music making within its various historical, social, and political contexts.
Topic 14: Music of the Andean Countries. Introduction to the music of Andean countries including Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, and Chile. Explore the role music plays in shaping historical and modern Andean societies, as well as how music comments upon national culture, society, and politics, with particular attention to the ways in which musicians and musical movements continue to influence Andean societies. Subjects include pre-Columbian and colonial music making; music representative of the tripartite indigenous, African, and Iberian heritage of Andean countries; aesthetics, identity, and musical expression; ritual, religion, and the politics of musical performance.
Topic 15: The Music of the African Diaspora. Investigate the musical legacy of the African slave trade in the Americas, the social contexts in which black musical forms have developed, and their varied forms. Includes the shifting meanings of black music" in various contexts; the notion of hybridity; the uses of African influenced music as a political or oppositional tool; and African ethnic groups represented prominently in the New World, the traditions they brought with them, and the ways they have been adapted to new ends.