Modernity and Musical Experience

4 units · Graduate courses (200-299)

Seminar, three hours; outside study, 10 hours. Limited to graduate students. Examination of possibilities for subject-centered musical ethnography to account for fragmented musical experience in modern world. Consideration of local and world musics in relation to modernity, postmodernity, globality, notions of self and subject, power, and media images. Letter grading.