MUSCLG 128

History of Popular Music

Musicology · 5 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)

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Introduction to study of popular music through American history, with emphasis on music of Americas, Afro-diasporic music, and socioeconomic structure of music making in industrial society.

Letter grading.

When it runs

Spring 2026

Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.

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Requisites

Official UCLA wording
Requisite or corequisite: M6A.

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MUSCLG M6Amay be taken concurrently

Requires

Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.

MUSCLG 128

MUSCLG M6AIntroduction to Global Musicianship

1 direct requisite. The whole upstream is here — 1 course over 1 level. Every course here opens its own tree.

Unlocks

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.