ETHNMUS 144Special Topics in Iranian Music
Ethnomusicology · 4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)
Exploration of topics on musical cultures and styles in Iran focusing on specific sociopolitical contexts, sexuality and gender studies, politics and resistance, religion, mysticism and spirituality, and role of musical discourses and practices in Iran and in its multiple diasporas (particularly Los Angeles). Topics announced in advance. May be repeated for credit.
P/NP or letter grading.
When it runs
- Winter 2026
Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.
Requisites
Official UCLA wording
Requisites: courses 5 or M25, and 8.
BruinTree reads · Prerequisite
confidence 1.00 · from textRequires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
ETHNMUS 144
- ETHNMUS 5Music Around World
- ETHNMUS 8Current Practices in Iranian Music-Making
- ETHNMUS M25Global Pop
3 direct requisites. The whole upstream is here — 3 courses over 1 level. Every course here opens its own tree.
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What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
No course in the catalog lists this as a requisite.