MUS 3015 - Global Pop

Credits: 3

Prerequisite(s): ENG 1020

Description: This survey of global pop explores musical thought and processes through an examination of the development of “world music” and “world beat” in the 20th and 21st century, including its meaning and importance to contemporary culture as well as its history and impact. The class addresses the complex relationships of music and mass media while addressing themes of nationalism, popular resistance and subversion, censorship, transnational identity, gender representation, and cultural hegemony in popular music.

General Studies: Arts and Humanities, Global Diversity