MUSC330

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MUSC330

Popular Music of the World MUSC330 SP

Not Currently Offered

This course concentrates on 20th-century popular musics of underdeveloped and developing nations. Using a number of selected case studies (Argentine tango, Nigerina juju, South African kwela, Indian film music, etc.), we will discuss issues raised by popular music such as the relationship of music to cultural identity, nationalism, political struggle, modernism, urbanism, Westernism and the recording and broadcast industries. Theories of popular culture will be critically examined in relation to popular and commercial musics.

MAJOR READINGS

Billy Bergman, GOODTIME KINGS, New York:
Quill, 1985
John Fiske, UNDERSTANDING POPULAR CULTURE, Boston: Unwin
Hyman, 1989
Dick Hebdige, SUBCULTURE: THE MEANING OF STYLE, London:
Methuen, 1979
Peter Manuel, POPULAR MUSIC OF THE NON-WESTERN WORLD, New
York: Oxford University Press, 1988
Jeremy Marre and Hannah Charlton, BEATS OF THE HEART:
POPULAR MUSIC OF THE WORLD, New York: Pantheon Books. (This
will be used in conjunction with a video series of the same
name)
Manuel Pefia, THE TEXAS-MEXICAN CONJUNTO: HISTORY OF A
WORKING-CLASS MUSIC, Austin: University of Texas Press, 1985
Christopher A. Waterman, JUJU: A SOCIAL HISTORY AND
ETHNOGRAPHY OF AN AFRICAN POPULAR MUSIC, Chicago: University
of Chicago Press, 1990

EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS

There will be two exams, one term paper and a concert review.

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS and/or COMMENTS

Unless preregistered students attend the first class meeting or communicate directly with the instructor prior to the first class, they will be dropped from the class list. NOTE: Students must still submit a completed Drop/Add form to the Registrar's Office.

COURSE FORMAT: Lecture

REGISTRATION INFORMATION

Level: UG Credit: 1.00 Gen Ed Area & Dept: HA MUSC

Prerequisites: None

Last Updated on MAR-22-1999

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