MUSC 131 - American Popular Music

• Recognize and discuss differing social and political roles, uses, aesthetics and theories of music from a variety of African cultures and their diasporas.
• Aurally identify the various styles of rock music from the 1950’s to the present.
• Assess the impact of musical cultures practice and gender perception on music, race and gender in world cultures.
• Demonstrate the ability to write and think critically about the various styles of Rock Music
• Identify functional, formal stylistic elements in music and sound of unfamiliar music.
• Articulate the impact of cultural and socio-political issues and its impacts on music and the listeners.
• Differentiate traditional music practice of major music-culture regions, including those of West Africa, South Africa, Ghana, Senegal, Zimbabwe, the Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Central Africa, South American and Cuban music of the African diaspora and black indigenous music of North America.
• Demonstrate an understanding of the inherent value and role of a particular rock style even when it differs from personal taste.
• Identify use of music for social engagement, community unification and political expression.
• Assess the influence of political oppression in creating new musical forms.
• Identify traditional sounds and music in contemporary African music as a means of reclaiming culture.
• Identify influence of traditional African music on music in South America, North America and other diasporan cultures.
• Examine causes, forms and effects of musical hybridization and globalization.
• Analyze African music of a large variety of areas and styles that displays prominent evidence of cross-cultural hybridization, particularly in contemporary society.

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