Course Code
MEL 3000
Academic Year
2016-2017
This two-semester course examines World Music in all of its manifestations (including folk, popular and art music from the non-Western world as well as ethnic minorities in the Western world) and its relation to culture. Tonal systems, musical instruments, performance practice, notational systems, oral traditions and musical structures are integrated with anthropological and sociological theory including concepts of race, ethnicity and cultural identity, cultural imperialism, hegemony, the impact of technology and mass media, post-colonialism and globalization.