TRANSATLANTIC SOUNDS: EUROPE AND THE AMERICAS
This course covers various musical cultures of Europe and the Americas. It provides an overview with selected case studies that emphasize folk, traditional, and popular musics, together with their performers, audiences, and cultural contexts, including major musical instruments, traditional and popular genres, notation systems, musical concepts, and extra musical contexts. Thematically, Transatlantic Sounds explores the relationship between music and the construction of identity, including collective expressions (e.g., nationalism, “Swifties,” class) and individual modes (e.g., gender, sexuality). The course is open to students from all disciplines; there are no pre-requisites and knowledge of music performance and theory is helpful, but not necessary.
This course covers various musical cultures of Europe and the Americas. It provides an overview with selected case studies that emphasize folk, traditional, and popular musics, together with their performers, audiences, and cultural contexts, including major musical instruments, traditional and popular genres, notation systems, musical concepts, and extra musical contexts. Thematically, Transatlantic Sounds explores the relationship between music and the construction of identity, including collective expressions (e.g., nationalism, “Swifties,” class) and individual modes (e.g., gender, sexuality). The course is open to students from all disciplines; there are no pre-requisites and knowledge of music performance and theory is helpful, but not necessary.
- المعلم: Edwin Porras