Musics in the US-Mexico Borderlands

4 credits · Undergraduate

This course considers a wide variety of musical practices emanating/taking place in Mexico and the U.S.-Mexico borderlands. An interdisciplinary course, it critically engages with issues of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, media, migration, and trans/nationalism by focusing on specific music practices and artists. We will cross the border often and cover musics that go from the “folkloric” to the “popular,” the nationalistic and the “regional,” and the local to the transnational. We will emphasize developing critical reading and writing skills via readings and writing assignments.