CAST 226 - Music of the Americas

FC ARHU CD

4 credits
This course focuses on the flow of music across geopolitical and cultural borders, 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 musicians adapt to and challenge the dynamism of globalization, finding outlets in diasporic communities as inequitable political systems affect cultural creativity. Students will listen to and investigate musical styles and communities that straddle borders including corridos, Nortec, mariachi, cumbia, salsa, and more.

This course is appropriate for new students.