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MU100

Music and Its Contexts

Historical course

Fall 2016 (file label and September–December schedule)

Topics

  • Music in social and cultural contexts
  • popular, classical and sacred traditions
  • improvisation
  • participation
  • ethnicity, gender and nationalism
  • music in ritual, media and advertising.

Readings

  • Steven Cornelius and Mary Natvig, Music: A Social Experience (2012), Pearson.
    Required
  • Additional MyLearningSpace readings; listening through MySearchLab, YouTube and library services such as Naxos; course blog.
    Other material
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