MUS 3000 - Musics of America

Credits: 3

Prerequisite(s): ENG 1020 or ENG 1021

Description: This course explores American music and its unique blend of African, Indigenous, Hispanic, Asian, and European colonial musical styles and genres. Students develop an understanding of the musical style, aesthetic viewpoints, and function of the folk, religious, classical, popular, and commercial musics of these groups. The course materials also consider the interaction of these musical styles and genres within the context of sociocultural dynamics of the United States. The students encounter a broad variety of musical expressions and study those expressions within the context of culture.

General Studies: Arts and Humanities

University Requirement(s): Ethnic Studies & Social Justice