Overview
Description
Musical and cultural survey of popular songs in North America from the early nineteenth century to the present.
Units
Lecture3
Catalog Details
Offering
Offered: Every Spring and Summer
Terms
spring, summer
Core
CO7
Attributes
Standard
Learning Outcomes
- explain that music, as an activity, shapes the images and ideals through which individuals understand themselves and their relationship to a broader world.
- discuss the complex interaction of music cultures in the US, and the role this interaction has played in reshaping notions of individual and national identity.
- articulate the ways in which self-perceptions of North Americans have changed since the middle nineteenth century.
- articulate how cultures outside the US have had an influence on the development of popular music.
- write critically and effectively about the music we study.