NES 1350

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NES 1350
Music of the Arab World

Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2019-2020.

This course offers a survey of musical performance practices of the Arab world and its diasporas from the early twentieth century to the present. It investigates the sociopolitical conditions and entanglements of music (and, in a few instances, dance) across a range of localities and periods. Themes considered include colonialism and orientalism, nationalism and populism, minorities and indigeneity, gender, religion, revolution and political change, war and US imperialism, regional histories of enslavement.

When Offered Spring.

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: MUSIC 1350

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16913 NES 1350   LEC 001

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  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person