MUS 3000 - Musics of America

3(3 + 0)

Prerequisite: MUS 1000 or MUS 1210 or Permission of instructor

This course will explore American music and its unique blend of African, Native American, Hispanic, Asian, and European colonial musical styles and genres, Students will develop an understanding of the musical style, aesthetic viewpoints, and function of the folk, religious, classical, popular, and commercial music of these groups. This course will also consider the interaction of these musical styles and genres within the context of sociocultural dynamics of the United States. The student will encounter new musical expressions and their history. This knowledge is synthesized in a final project in which the student investigates the music of an American ethnic minority culture.(General Studies—Level II, Arts and Letters, Multicultural)