| Title: | Popular Music in United States |
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| Course Section Number: | MUS-204-01D |
| Department: | Music |
| Description: | VIRTUAL COURSE. 1st half semester: August 12 - September 29. We will study a broad spectrum of popular music performed and heard in the United States and probe its relationship to small- and large-scale changes in American culture. This course is divided into two halves. In the first portion, we will learn principal methods in music research (musicology and ethnomusicology), basic ethnography, and genres and styles from until the mid-20th-century. The second half will cover from the rock revolution of the 1960s to the present. In both halves, we will ask questions about the centrality of America's vernacular genres to its musical heritage. We will learn about the origins of African American, Latin American, and Anglo-American traditions, discuss notable characteristics in folk and popular idioms, and venture to explain how and why vernacular and popular genres provide compelling means to communicate with others and express social values. Music 204 will be taught as a virtual course this semester. Students on campus as well as students who will not be in residency are encouraged to enroll. |
| Credits: | 0.50 |
| Start Date: | August 12, 2020 |
| End Date: | September 29, 2020 |
| Meeting Information: |
08/13/2020-09/29/2020 Lecture Tuesday, Thursday 01:10PM - 02:25PM, Baxter Hall, Room 114
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| Faculty: | De Oliveira Badue, Alexandre |
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