Course Code: MEL 3500
Academic Year: 2024-2025
This course continues to survey folk, art, and popular musics from around the world including musical systems, instruments, performance practices, political and social structures, and spiritual belief systems. Musical analysis is integrated with sociological/anthropological theory to address issues around race, cultural identity, cultural imperialism, post-colonialism, and globalization. Musical cultures to be explored may include those of Canada's Indigenous peoples, India, and the Middle East.