Subject: Music
Credit units: 3
Offered: Either Term 1 or Term 2
Weekly hours: 3 Lecture hours
College: Arts and Science
Department: School for the Arts

Description

This course examines how music, in many contexts and periods of history, intersects with politics and power. How has music played a role in producing, reinforcing, defying, or destroying power structures? Can music, for example, be a force for peace or violence? This course will address these and other questions in relation to a wide range of musical works and practices from Western art music, popular music, and traditional music.

Prerequisite(s): MUS 155.3 or permission of the department

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