Summer Session

MUS 300: Music, Technol, & Digital Cult

Undergraduate 3 credits

Advisory Prerequisite: MUS 101, 103, 105, 109, 119, 130, or equivalent musical experience

DEC: H SBC: STAS

Study of the interactions between music, technology, and culture in popular and concert music since World War I. Issues of production, distribution, and reception, involving such topics as the impact of radio on composition in the 1920s and 1930s, early synthesizers, and the rise of electronic music, digital sampling and DJs, the MP3 phenomenon, cross-cultural borrowings, gender and technology, the internet, interactivity, and new models of consumption. Not for major credit.