MU 320 - World Music

Institution:

Baker University

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Description:

This course introduces an understanding of the Native American, Native African and African-American, Jewish, Asian, and Hispanic cultures (five of the major ethnic groups which interact frequently within the twentieth-century American society) through the study of the spiritual and aesthetic values associated with the music of each of these cultures. Primary emphasis will be placed on a consideration of the cultural/social contexts within which music takes place. The course will survey, in a variety of ways, selected repertoires of recorded folk and traditional music as performed by natives of Israel, Asia, Spain and Mexico, Africa, and America.

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.bakeru.edu

Phone Number:

(800) 873-4282

Regional Accreditation:

North Central Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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