MUSIC 1328 - CREATIVE ETHNOMUSICOLOGY

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course introduces a diverse students from the University of Pittsburgh and SCI Fayette to music genres from the world. Drawing on examples from Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America, Mexico and the Caribbean, this course provides students with the analytical tools with which to better comprehend the intertextual nature of sound. Post/colonial studies, race, and gender studies offer a theoretical lens for analyzing the musical traditions in context. Lectures frame the genres within broader theoretical narratives informed by cultural modes of perception and physical reactions to sound. Giving space to develop and share aesthetic emotions, the course fosters a learning environment in which students work individually and in collaborative groups to create informed projects inspired by aspects of the musical traditions covered in the course.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Attributes: DSAS Diversity General Ed. Requirement, DSAS The Arts General Ed. Requirement, SCI Diversity General Ed. Requirements, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Humanistic GE. Req., Undergraduate Research

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