I. General Information

1. Course Title:
Music in World Cultures

2. Course Prefix & Number:
MUSC 2410

3. Course Credits and Contact Hours:

Credits: 3

Lecture Hours: 3

Lab Hours: 0

4. Course Description:

This class is the study of music of different cultures in the context of human life. Students will be introduced to the music of such cultures as: Africa/Ewe, India/South India, Ireland, Scotland, North America/Native America, Latin America/Ecuador and many others. Class activities will include music listening, making and playing of multicultural music instruments, guest speakers and performers, field trips, and other projects that enhance ethnomusicological awareness of the many differences as well as similarities of non-Western and Western hemisphere indigenous cultures. MnTC Goals 6 and 8.

5. Placement Tests Required:

Accuplacer (specify test):

Reading College Level CLC or Reading College Level

Score:

6. Prerequisite Courses:

There are no prerequisites for this course.

9. Co-requisite Courses:

There are no corequisites for this course.

II. Transfer and Articulation

1. Course Equivalency - similar course from other regional institutions:

St. Cloud State University, MUSM 125, 3 cr
Bemidji State University, MUS 2110 World Music: Western Hemishpere (2 Cr) and General Elective credit (1 Cr) or MUS 2111 World Music: Eastern Hemisphere (3 Cr)

2. Transfer - regional institutions with which this course has a written articulation agreement:

Bemidji State University, August 24^th, 2020, Bachelors of Music Degree

III. Course Purpose

2. MN Transfer Curriculum (General Education) Courses - This course fulfills the following goal area(s) of the MN Transfer Curriculum:

• Goal 6 – Humanities and Fine Arts
• Goal 8 – Global Perspective

IV. Learning Outcomes

1. College-Wide Outcomes

College-Wide Outcomes/Competencies	Students will be able to:
Demonstrate reading and listening skills	Analyze assigned pieces of music by listening to, reading, and performing multi cultural music.
Analyze and follow a sequence of operations	Analyze the cultural, musical and human life differences of diverse cultures.
Discuss/compare characteristics of diverse cultures and environments	Identify the social, musical, and cultural differences between diverse ethnic groups such as Native American and African American cultures.

2. Course Specific Outcomes - Students will be able to achieve the following measurable goals upon completion of the course:

• Identify the social and cultural differences between different ethnic groups of non western civilizations such as African and Japanese cultures as introduced throughout the study of their musical styles and daily customs;
• Engage in the creative process or interpretive performance of other cultures such as Afro Agbekor drumming styles (MnTC Goal 6);
• Compare and identify the differences and similarities between non western and western musical genres such as African poly-rhythms and American jazz scats;
• Analyze various styles of multi cultural music and Respond critically to works in the arts and humanities (MnTC Goal 6);
• Write and speak with knowledge on the global differences of a variety of music cultures such as Native American chanting and African rainforest tribal vocal polyphony. Students will be able to identify a variety of multi cultural instruments;
• Demonstrate awareness of the scope and variety of works in the arts and humanities from music throughout the world. (MnTC Goal 6);
• Describe and analyze political, economic, and cultural elements which influence relations of states and societies in their historical and contemporary dimensions.(MnTC Goal 8);
• Analyze specific international problems, illustrating the cultural, economic, and political differences that affect their solution (MnTC Goal 8); and
• Demonstrate an understanding of the role of a world citizen and the responsibility world citizens share for their common global future (MnTC Goal 8).

V. Topical Outline

Listed below are major areas of content typically covered in this course.

1. Lecture Sessions

1. The Music Culture as a World of Music
• The Soundscape
• The Music-Culture
• What is Music?
2. India/ South India
• History, culture, and music
• Classical music
• Many musics
3. North America/Black America
• Music of worship
• Music of play
• Blues
• Music of work
4. Latin America/Chile, Bolivia, Ecuador, Peru
• Chilean Nueva Cancion
• Bolivian Kantu
• Wawa Velorio
• Afro-Peruvian music
• Andean Folk Music
5. North America and/Native America
• Three differentsStyles
• Music of the Navajos
• Native American flute revival
6. Discovering and Documenting a World Music
• Music in our own backyards
• Doing a music ethnography
7. Music of Asia/Indonesia
• Central Java
• Bali
• North Sumatra
• Indonesian popular music