MUSC 115 - Music of Las Americas

5 Credits

This course will take an interdisciplinary approach to explore selected musics emerging from Latinx communities in the Caribbean and South, Central, and North America (referred to as “Las Americas”). The course explores the many ways in which the Latinx experience is embodied in and negotiated through musical performance, framed by a range of concepts such as migration, diaspora, colonialism, hybridity, globalization; and the intersecting roles of class, race, gender, and sexuality. The course will also devote significant attention to the performance and meaning of Latinx musics in the context of U.S. American culture and identity.

Fees

Quarters Typically Offered
Fall Day
Winter Day
Spring Day

Designed to Serve All students seeking transfer degree. Students should have 12th grade level reading, writing, listening, and note-taking skills. The course requires some abstract thinking.
Active Date 20200102T13:59:44

Grading Basis Decimal Grade
Class Limit 38
Contact Hours: Lecture 55
Total Contact Hours 55
Degree Distributions:
AA

Diversity & Globalism
Humanities Area II

Course Outline

Introduction to the study of music and cultural considerations.
Listening skills and musical components.
Weekly units based on selected areas such as Argentina, Brazil, Peru, Chile, Venezuela, Guatemala, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Mexico, and the United States.

Student Learning Outcomes
Delineate how music’s organizational principles map onto various non-musical aspects of social experience.

Describe the emergence and historical trajectory of Latinx musical cultures in the Americas.

Explain Latinx artists’ participation in and contributions to the formation of U.S. American culture and identity.

Accurately identify a musical piece’s cultural origin, and musical components and concepts.