World Music-Global Pop

World Music-Global Pop is a Humanities, Arts and Cultural Studies class taught by Junko Oba.

Course Description
This course is an introduction to select world music cultures with particular emphasis on recent global popular music phenomena: Afro Pop, Celtic, Klezmer, and Global Hip Hop. Specific case studies examine the process that the music is shaped by and gives shape to the 'community' in which it is performed. The class centers around the close examination and discussion of listening and reading assignments. We will explore the impact of transnational migration, postcolonial setting, electronic media and information sharing technologies as they pertain to individual cases.

Learning Goals

 * Multi-Cultural
 * Presenting
 * Reading
 * Writing