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4.00 Credits
Seminar, three hours; outside study, nine hours. Limited to Ethnomusicology majors. Comprehensive overview of critical approaches to aesthetics in systematic musicology. Exploration of aesthetics and philosophy of music, sociology of music, critical theory, hermeneutics, and music criticism. Concurrently scheduled with course C204. Letter grading.
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4.00 Credits
Seminar, three hours; outside study, nine hours. Limited to Ethnomusicology majors. Comprehensive overview of empirical approaches in systematic musicology. Exploration of theory and philosophy of science and empiricism, experimental semiotics and aesthetics, acoustics, musical learning theory, psychology of music, psycholinguistics, and related disciplines as applied to musical scholarship based on theory and model building. Concurrently scheduled with course C203. Letter grading.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, four hours; outside study, eight hours. Designed for Ethnomusicology majors. How music industry functions and how products are created, marketed, and consumed. Techniques of pure research, basic and theoretical in nature, contrasted with those of applied research, practical and policy-oriented in approach. Concurrently scheduled with course C286. Letter grading.
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4.00 Credits
Letter grading. C156A. Lecture, four hours. Requisite: course 20C. Limited to Ethnomusicology majors. Survey of traditional, popular, and Western-influenced musics currently widespread in China, including musical analysis of different genres; examination of contexts in which they exist. Investigation of profound effect of Confucian and Communist ideologies on music. Concurrently scheduled with course C256A. 156B. Lecture, three hours; laboratory, two hours. Requisite: course C156A. Introduction to various notational systems. Analysis of representative styles.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, four hours; discussion, one hour. Sociocultural history of women in jazz and allied musical traditions from 1880s to present. Survey of women vocalists, instrumentalists, composers/arrangers, and producers and their impact on development of jazz. P/NP or letter grading.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, three hours. Music of Duke Ellington, his life, and far-reaching influence of his efforts. Ellington's music, known as "Ellingtonia," is one olargest and perhaps most important bodies of music ever produced in U.S. Covers many contributions of other artists who worked with Ellington, such as composer Billy Strayhorn and musicians Johnny Hodges, Cooties Williams, and Mercer Ellington. P/NP or letter grading.
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4.00 Credits
(Same as Chicana and Chicano Studies M115.) Lecture, three hours. Confronting aesthetics from classical perspective of art as intuition, examination on crosscultural basis of diverse musical contexts within vast multicultural metropolis of Los Angeles, with focus on various musical networks and specific experiences of Chicano/Latino, African American, American Indian, Asian, rock culture, Western art music tradition, and commercial music industry. P/NP or letter grading.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, four hours; discussion, one hour. Historical and analytical examination of musical expression of Latino peoples who have inhabited present geographical boundaries of U.S. P/NP or letter grading.
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5.00 Credits
Lecture, four hours; discussion, one hour. Introduction to development of rap music and hip-hop culture, with emphasis on musical and verbal qualities, philosophical and political ideologies, gender representation, and influences on cinema and popular culture. P/NP or letter grading.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, three hours. Requisite: course 20A or 20B or 20C or Anthropology 9 or 33 or World Arts and Cultures 20. Aesthetics of jazz from point of view of musicians who shaped jazz as art form in 20th century. Listening to and interacting with professional jazz musicians who answer questions and give musical demonstrations. Analytical resources and historical knowledge of musicians and ethnomusicologists combined with those interested in jazz as cultural tradition. P/NP or letter grading.
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