Local Music in the Global Mix

SS 264 Local Music in the Global Mix This course will examine the social and cultural contexts through which the music of local places is produced and distributed within a system of global capitalism. At issue in this sonorous political economy are questions of authorship, authenticity, cultural property, technological transformations, and historically structured relations of power and difference. Students will acquire an understanding of political economy, commodities, cultural politics, and globalization, as these larger processes relate to an anthropological understanding of music performance and production.