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
EUS 229Nationalism, Cosmopolitanism, and Antisemitism in 19th- and 20th-Century European Music
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 229Nationalism, Cosmopolitanism, and Antisemitism in 19th- and 20th-Century European Music
MUS 247History of Jazz
MUS 248Music in Contemporary Popular Culture
MUS 249African American Popular Music
MUS 253Music and the Embodied Mind
PSYC 253Music and the Embodied Mind
REL 229Nationalism, Cosmopolitanism, and Antisemitism in 19th- and 20th-Century European Music