MUSIC 1360 - ROMANI / GYPSY MUSIC

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Gypsy music has emerged as one of the most popular world music genres in the last two decades. The genre's success on the world stage is closely connected with the Romani (gypsy) minority rights movement, which has strengthened on local, national, and international levels due to increased education opportunities for roam, and more positive representation in the media. The present proliferation and popularization of a great variety of musical styles marketed as 'gypsy' points to the fact that Romani musical expressions draw their musical characteristics from Romani and non-Romani elements. Styles are differentiated according to time, place, and cultural influences with regard to ornamentation, language choice, vocal timbres, and choice of instruments. This course analyzes the musical varieties within genres marketed as 'gypsy' and offers broader political, economic, and historical perspectives on a variety of factors rooted in race, ethnicity, gender, and class relations that have contributed to contemporary understandings of 'gypsy' music
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Attributes: DSAS The Arts General Ed. Requirement, Russian & East European Studies, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Global&Cross Cul GE. Req., SCI Polymathic Contexts: Humanistic GE. Req.

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