Academic Catalog

Music and Culture (C080)

GEC 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.

Complete four courses designated with the (C080) GEC attribute. One non-Bates credit may be applied to the concentration, if judged comparable to one of those below, with pre-approval by the coordinator. Not open to students who have declared a major or minor in Music.

Active course offerings include:

AFR 249African American Popular Music
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
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 247History of Jazz
MUS 249African American Popular Music
MUS 253Music and the Embodied Mind
PSYC 253Music and the Embodied Mind