Surveys music cultures of Asia, Australia, and Oceania (Pacific islands). An exploration of the structures, forms, instruments, performance practices, contexts, and roles in historical, social, cultural, and global systems.
Athena Title
World Music East Hemi
Semester Course Offered
Offered spring
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Student Learning Outcomes
Students will be able to introduce basic skills to listen, watch, and analyze performance practices.
Students will be able to identify and think critically about how music and musicians and other performance artists use aesthetic principles to express social and cultural meaning and belonging.
Students will be able to discuss the relationship between performance cultures and other organizing social units such as gender, race, ritual, religion, geography, history, economics, political, and social systems.
Students will be able to write effectively about music, musicians, and performance.
Topical Outline
Introduction to the study of music in and as culture
Elements of music
Overview of World Music cultures
Musics of Australia
Musics of Polynesia
Music of Melanesia and Micronesia
Musics of South East Asia
Musics of South Asia
Musics of East Asia - China
Musics of East Asia – Korea/Japan
Musics of West Asia
Musics of the Asian Diaspora
The Interstices of Oceanic musics with Europe and the Americas
