Music exists in all cultures and is a basic activity of human life.
The student will not only encounter new musical expressions but also the philosophies and cultural views which accompany them. This class is intended for the those who have had introductory course in music that developed a vocabulary for musical description. Textbook with accompanying CDs. The Emergence of Folklore in Everyday Life. Each of these reports is a 300-word essay describing a concert or an audio or video which the student has experienced both as a musical and as a cultural event.