Professor: Jesus Ramos-Kittrell

4.00 credits

• CRN 32203: Tuesday & Thursday, 12:00-1:20 PM @ CH 103

This course approaches music as a space permeated by understandings of difference. The course considers how media industries and institutions structure processes of representation (using music as an expressive tool) by promoting cultural symbols as points of inclusion in a dominant frame of political discourse. In this context, the class broaches listening as a cultural practice to enact transactional exchanges and power negotiations in relation to difference as a category understood in terms of inequity (e.g., ‘cultures of others,’ ‘world cultures,’ or ‘world music,’ are labels usually understood in terms of imbalance).