HISP 200 - Music of Latin America

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4 credits
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.

This course is cross-listed with ETHN-200