FA/MUSI 1540 3.00

World Music And Global Sounds

Explores the network of world music as it exists today by tracing the origins of some of these musical styles that now may reach a global audience. Selected classical, folk and popular traditions from around the globe will be studied from various perspectives, including social and political contexts, musical structures, and performance practices, in order to a better understand the music that influences some of today's popular global sounds.