Music Politics and Power

3 credits · Undergraduate

This course examines how music, in many contexts and periods of history, intersects with politics and power. How has music played a role in producing, reinforcing, defying, or destroying power structures? Can music, for example, be a force for peace or violence? This course will address these and other questions in relation to a wide range of musical works and practices from Western art music, popular music, and traditional music.