MUS 529LEC - Studies in US Music

The course focuses on both popular and art music from the turn of the century through the first half of the twentieth century. Topics include cultural hierarchies of low art and high art, and how music of the United States shaped notions of national identity while engaging with representations of race, ethnicity, gender, and class. Repertoires covered will include genres of popular music, American modernism, the populist works of composers such as Aaron Copland, and mixed-genre concert works of composers such as George Gershwin and Duke Ellington.

Credits: 4