| Course ID: | MUSI 3020. 3 hours. |
| Course Title: | World Music Survey: Africa, Europe, and the Americas |
Course
Description: | Surveys music cultures of Africa, Europe, and the Americas excluding western art music. An exploration of their structures, forms, instruments, performance practices, contexts, and roles in social, cultural, and global systems. |
| Oasis Title: | WORLD MUS: WEST HEM |
Semester Course
Offered: | Offered fall semester every year. |
| Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
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| Course Objectives: | To introduce basic skills to listening to music appreciatively, analytically and critically.
To identify, differentiate, and describe music and musicians from the above cultures including compositional techniques, instruments, genres, styles.
To discuss the relationship between music and other features of cultures such as ritual, religion, history, economics, political and social systems.
To write about the music musicians, and performance contexts. |
| Topical Outline: | 1. Introduction to the study of music in and as culture
2. Elements of music
3. Overview of World Music cultures
4. Native American Music (North America)
5. Native American Music (South and Central America)
6. Music of Africa
7. Music of Europe
8. Music of the African Diaspora: North America
9. Music of the African Diaspora: South America
10.Music of the African Diaspora: Central America
11.Music of the European Diaspora: North America
12.Music of the European Diaspora: South and Central America
13.The Asian music factor in Africa, Europe and the Americas. |