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May 13, 2024
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MUS 089A PO - Popular Music in East AsiaWhen Offered: One-time only; spring 2019.
Instructor(s): C. D’Evelyn
Credit: 1
This course explores popular music, culture, and identity in Japan, China/Hong Kong, and South Korea. Course units will focus specifically on: (1) theories of globalization, (2) pop music of Japan (idols, rock, hip hop, video game music, and music for animation); (3) pop music in the Chinese-speaking world (Taiwan, Hong Kong, mainland China, Chinese diaspora, and film music); and (4) South Korea (the “Korean wave” including idol groups and music themes for K-dramas). We examine the profound impact that music has as a cultural commodity and its ability to both express and challenge social norms and to represent self and group identities. Using an interdisciplinary approach to the study of music culture, this course requires students to examine East Asian culture and popular music through a variety of lenses such as nationalism, gender, sexuality, class, aesthetics, and family values. Students develop their own research project throughout the semester based on a topic of their choosing and applying course concepts in their analysis of their selected genre or form of popular culture in Asia.
Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
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