<p>(Formerly numbered Ethnomusicology 121.) Lecture, four hours. Exploration of assimilation and retention of jazz from U.S. in various countries, with particular emphasis on cultural and social features that form basis for new jazz-ethnic music blends. Letter grading.</p>

Global Jazz Studies

The school cultivates models for musical studies that integrate exemplary scholarship and practices, and engage through music with diverse communities on campus, throughout Los Angeles, and beyond.

Herb Alpert School of Music

The curriculum is designed around performance courses, musicianship and music theory, and a broad understanding of the historical and societal context of the development and advancement of jazz.

General Catalog

Cross-Cultural Perspectives in Jazz

GJSTDS101

4 units