Music on China's Periphery

ETHNMUS C259 - Music on China's Periphery

<p>Lecture, four hours; outside study, eight hours. Designed for undergraduate ethnomusicology, music, music history, and world arts and cultures majors. Survey of musics from China’s border regions and neighboring countries: technical musical characteristics and important contextual issues related to traditional and modern styles from Mongolia, Uighurs of Xinjiang, Tibet, Tibeto-Burman peoples, Hmong, and indigenous peoples of Taiwan. Concurrently scheduled with course C259. P/NP or 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.

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Music on China's Periphery

ETHNMUS C159

4 units