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Course Criteria
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8.00 Credits
Tutorial, to be arranged. Limited to junior/senior Ethnomusicology majors. Supervised individual research or investigation under guidance of faculty mentor. Culminating paper or project required. May be repeated for maximum of 8 units. Individual contract required. Letter grading.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, four hours; discussion, one hour; outside study, 10 hours. Traditional and popular musics from many different countries, with introduction to basic ethnomusicological concepts and development of listening and analytical skills. P/NP or letter grading. 20A. Europe and Americas; 20B. Africa and Near East; 20C. Asia.
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5.00 Credits
Lecture, four hours; discussion, one hour. Development of world music or world beat, including its meaning and importance to contemporary culture as well as its history and impact. P/NP or letter grading.
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5.00 Credits
Lecture, four hours; discussion, one hour. Exploration of ways music is mediated to people by industry, technologies, and corporations. Survey of leading theorists of media and exploration of case studies. P/NP or letter grading.
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5.00 Credits
Lecture, four hours; discussion, one hour. Sociocultural history and survey of blues music tradition from its roots in West Africa to its emergence in African American oral culture, with emphasis on philosophical underpinnings and social and political impact of blues and its influence on development of country, jazz, gospel, rhythm and blues, rock, hip-hop music, and other mediums. P/NP or letter grading.
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5.00 Credits
Lecture, four hours; discussion, one hour. Survey of nature, role, and power of music in religious rituals around world, covering music and ritual of Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, as well as religious traditions of Native Americans and syncretic religious practices in Americas such as African American gospel music, Brazilian Candomble, Cuban Santería, and Haitian vodoun. Letter grading.
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5.00 Credits
Lecture, four hours; discussion, one hour; outside study, 10 hours. History and development of South Asian film scores in their filmic context, especially omnipresent songs that most distinctively characterize this genre. P/NP or letter grading.
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5.00 Credits
Lecture, four hours; discussion, one hour; outside study, 10 hours. Overview of world's musical traditions by selecting one or two case studies from each of nine musical world regions: Pacific, East Asia, Southeast Asia, South Asia, Middle East, Africa, Europe, Latin America, and the U.S. and Canada. P/NP or letter grading.
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5.00 Credits
Lecture, four hours; discussion, one hour. Course 50A is not requisite to 50B. Survey of development of jazz in American culture. Discussion of different compositional/ performance techniques and approaches that distinguish different sub-styles of jazz from one another, as well as key historical figures that shaped development of jazz from its early years through modern jazz. Important historical social issues (segregation, Depression, World War II, Civil Rights Movement) that intersect with history of U.S. and jazz music. P/NP or letter grading. 50A. Late 19th Century through 1940s;
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3.00 Credits
1940s to Present.
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