<p>Seminar, three hours; outside study, 10 hours. Limited to graduate students. Examination of possibilities for subject-centered musical ethnography to account for fragmented musical experience in modern world. Consideration of local and world musics in relation to modernity, postmodernity, globality, notions of self and subject, power, and media images. Letter grading.</p>

Ethnomusicology

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

Ethnomusicology involves the study of all kinds of music from all over the world, using a variety of disciplinary perspectives.

General Catalog

Modernity and Musical Experience

ETHNMUS 268

4 units