This course focuses on how diverse understandings of popular music have traveled in the modern era along with many examples of music themselves, impelled especially by colonial encounters and other cross-cultural exchanges. Developing a musical anthropology that considers globalization and popular culture more generally, the class will attend to a series of ritual practices, musical products and implied meanings of specific cultural forms in diverse parts of the world, tracking political histories along with cultural ones.

Visit Workday to view this information.