IAS 383 - Reading the Scores: Understanding Brazilian Music through Social Categories

Institution:

Washington University in St Louis

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Description:

This course examines Brazilian culture and history through the lens of music and music-making. This final term "music-making" is a key term throughout the semester, as, for the purposes of this course, our interest in music is social and cultural. That is to say, we concern ourselves with sound production as a contextualized social activity, not simply notes and arrangements printed on the page. We discuss various genres of music-from folk to pop to traditional to elite "classical" pieces. Fundamentally speaking, this is a writing-intensive course, which means that we dedicate a significant amount of time and energy to the task of writing (a lot of revising and editing) about music and culture.

Credits:

3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.wustl.edu

Phone Number:

(314) 935-5000

Regional Accreditation:

North Central Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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