ETHNMUS 22Global Popular Musics II: From Cassettes to Digital and Online Media
Ethnomusicology · 4 units · Undergraduate lower division (0-99)
Exploration of multiplicitous world of global pop beyond major pop genres and their industries established in early-to-mid 20th century. Examination of dramatic decentralization of media that took place with advent of cassette technology and explosion of new forms of popular music that are listened to on recordings as much as in live settings. Examination also of how major pop genres are appropriated and localized in contexts both intended and unintended by their producers at new intensities of speed and scale and further and further distance from urban, industrial, and political centers of power. Exploration of how this loosening of central control releases quagmires of exploitation, piracy, and creativity in world of popular and recorded music, and, later, with rise of Internet and social media.
P/NP or letter grading.
When it runs
Not on the schedule for any of Fall 2025 through Spring 2027. UCLA publishes only that window, so this does not mean the course is gone — check the official listing.
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