MUS 217 - “One Nation Under a Groove”?: American Music

Course unit(s): 1
Meets GAR: Meets general academic requirement AR and DE.
What makes “American” music? What are the stakes in defining “American Music”? Who decides what is “American”? These are the questions that guide us as we study music from a variety of traditions that may include iconically American genres—jazz, blues, folk musics, popular styles and American “experimental” music—as well as traditions of immigrant and migrant communities with transnational ties and connections, including salsa, Cantonese opera, and klezmer traditions in their U.S.-American manifestations.