MUS 3610 - Soc & Cultural Study of Music

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Babson College

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4.00 credits MUS3610 Social and Cultural Study of Music Advanced Liberal Arts In this course, students will consider the ways in which contemporary folk and popular musics interact with broader contexts of culture and society in the world today. Students will first examine ethnographic representations of a variety of musics, in a number of different media, to critically evaluate methods and practices in contemporary ethnomusicological scholarship. Having a critical perspective on the effectiveness of ethnographic methods, students will then be responsible for their own ethnography of a music-making community in Boston. A series of tasks including video recording, audio recording, interview transcription, and a written ethnography, will result in a variegated representation of a musical community from an analytical perspective. By the end of the course, students will be familar with a basic repertory of musics from around the world, and will have a practical and through-going understanding of ethnographic methods in the study of music Prerequisites: Three Intermediate Liberal Arts (CVA, HSS, LVA)

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4.00

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Institution Website:

www.babson.edu

Phone Number:

(781) 235-1200

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

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Semester

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