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Oct 10, 2025
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MUS 220 - Anthropology of Music
Description
Music can best be described as elusive. It is mobile and porous, traveling over space and time, interacting and melding with (sometimes rejecting) other musics it encounters. What music is to one people may be noise to another. Though its definition is culturally relative, what can be said about all music is that it does. Music functions differently from culture to culture and engaging with those functions not only aids in a deeper understanding of the music itself, but of the societies that produce them. This class will serve not only as an exploration of how music functions in various societal and cultural contexts, but how, through the practices of fieldwork and ethnography, these questions have been approached by scholars in the past (and the ethical implications of such work). Readings will be structured around case studies from minoritized, indigenous, diasporic/exilic, and post-colonial populations so as to allow us to move beyond commonly-held conceptions and understandings of music and dive into its too often unrecognized expanses. Same as ANT220.
Credits: 1
Course Attribute(s):
ARTS Gen Ed: Arts Requirement
WRLD Gen Ed: World Perspectives Req
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