MHMUS 475 — Music in the Americas - A Cross-Cultural Perspective

3 credits
Fall
Edgardo Salinas

Prerequisite: MHMUS 311 This course explores the music produced in the Americas during the 20th century. It proposes a new cross-cultural perspective that traces contrasts and connections through the music and the shared history of North, Central, and South America. The class is organized around case studies that examine exemplary works and the hemispheric reception of composers such as Gershwin, Copland, Cage, Chavez, Revueltas, Villa-Lobos, Ginastera, Piazzolla, Golijov, and John Adams. The course will also examine popular and folk-music traditions while considering their impact on those composers and on the culture of the Americas at large, including jazz, bossa nova, Tropicalismo, tango, rock, and the “Nueva Canción” movement from Latin America.