Special Topics: Contextualizing Music
MUS-555-1
SUNY Fredonia
- Semester
- Summer 2026
- Instructor
- Wenzhou Zhang
- Start Date
- 05-26-2026
- Total Credits
- 3
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This course will contextualize various types of music-making from East Asia, Africa, the Americas, and the Indigenous cultural groups. Drawing on interdisciplinary texts from ethnomusicology, anthropology, history, and political studies, we will explore diverse music practices including but not limited to American folk music, salsa, hip-pop, Hongkong protest music, Korean folk-pop, African toyi-toyi, Australian Indigenous bands, and Ukrainian folk music. We will interpret these various music genres as artistic creations and social activism through reading assignments, listening examples, film clips, and discussion. We will explore the meanings of the music by situating them in the social realities and by responding to emergent issues and crises related to democracy, social injustice, gender, social trauma, medical crises, and the struggles of refugees.
Course Area: Music
Level: Graduate
Dates: 05-26-2026 - 06-26-2026
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