ETHN 200 - Music of the Americas

Next Offered: Fall Semester
Semester Offered: First Semester
FC
Credits: 4 Credits
Attribute: CNDP/DDHU

This course focuses on folk and popular music of Latin America, with emphasis on theories of cosmopolitanism, appropriation, circulation, and reception. In this class students explore musical styles as they change in response to global and technological forces. Additionally, students explore the ways that Latin American musicians adapt to and challenge the dynamism of globalization, finding outlets in diasporic communities as inequitable political systems affect cultural creativity.

Enrollment Limit: 30
Instructor: K. Metz
Consent of the Instructor Required: No
Prerequisites & Notes
CMUS 103, ETHN 100, or consent of the instructor.