Academic Catalog

Music and Culture (C080)

Concentration Coordinator: Gina Andrea Fatone

This concentration provides opportunities to examine and consider the ways that music and culture shape each other. Individually and collectively, the courses cover a vast range of musical traditions and their cultures, as well as introducing many ways of combining musical, historical, anthropological, and cultural-theoretical tools of analysis.

Concentration Requirements

Complete four courses designated with the (C080) concentration attribute. 

Active course offerings include:

AFR 249African American Popular Music
AFR 279Saints & Gangsters: Hip-Hop, Black Religion, and Realness
AFR 330Latina/o/xs in NYC Hip-Hop Culture
AMST 330Latina/o/xs Hip-Hop
ANTH 212How Music Performs Culture: Introduction to Ethnomusicology
EUS 210Classical Music in Western Culture
EUS 229Antisemitism in European Musical Culture
LALS 330Latina/o/xs in NYC Hip-Hop Culture
MUS S25Performing Musical Art of Indonesia
MUS 103Music in World Cultures
MUS 210Classical Music in Western Culture
MUS 212How Music Performs Culture: Introduction to Ethnomusicology
MUS 229Antisemitism in European Musical Culture
MUS 247History of Jazz
MUS 248Music in Contemporary Popular Culture
MUS 249African American Popular Music
MUS 253Music and the Embodied Mind
MUS 266Miles Davis
MUS 279Saints & Gangsters: Hip-Hop, Black Religion, and Realness
MUS 392Community-Engaged Music and Well-being
PSYC 253Music and the Embodied Mind
REL 229Antisemitism in European Musical Culture
REL 279Saints & Gangsters: Hip-Hop, Black Religion, and Realness
 

Courses Taken Outside of Bates

One non-Bates credit may be applied to the concentration if judged comparable to one of those below, with pre-approval by the coordinator.

Declaration Restrictions

Students who declare the Music and Culture C080 concentration may not declare the following:

  • Music major
  • Music minor

Other Considerations

None.