MUS 130 - World Music

Institution:

Knox College

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Description:

World Music provides an introduction to non-western musics and the discipline of ethnomusicology with a heavy emphasis on listening, speaking, and critical writing about music. Through case studies from regions around the world, the course explores musical sound, production, and consumption, and investigates the role music plays in culture, through family, community, religion, diaspora, politics, ritual, and aesthetic experience. HUM; DV; N. Whittaker, S. Day-O'Connell

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.knox.edu

Phone Number:

(309) 341-7000

Regional Accreditation:

North Central Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Trimester

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