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2017-2018 Undergraduate Bulletin 
    
2017-2018 Undergraduate Bulletin [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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MUSC 339 - Folk and Popular Music Studies


Credit(s): 3
Lecture: 3
Non-Lecture: 0
An examination of various styles and genres of popular and folk music in specific historical, cultural, aesthetic, and political contexts. This course will also examine basic theoretical texts in the field of popular music studies. Topics to be considered may include notions of high and low art, popular music and identity construction, geographies of popular music, the politics of folk and popular music, and musical folklore. Offered regularly though not on a rotating basis.

Prerequisite(s): MUSC 227  or MUSC 232  or MUSC 233 .



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