Special attention to demographic and agricultural patterns, resource development, industrialization and urbanization, drawing on specific case studies from Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Offered jointly with SIS 335. This course examines the social, ideological, and cultural changes that Mexican-Americans and Mexican immigrants confronted, and at times resisted, in the United States, from the 1840s to the 1980s. A Music 317 surveys the relationship of music to peoples' ways of life in Africa, Latin America, North America, and the Pacific islands, or Oceania. We will listen to music from all these areas, and try to become familiar with it and develop some understanding for the many ways that music is important to the lives of the people who make and use it.
Music frequently plays an important role in kinship, economic, political, and legal systems.
And music, like the rest of culture, is always changing and developing new forms. We will hear some of the most unusual and beautiful of these forms as we consider the dynamics and significance of music in cultures ranging from small nomadic camps to large civilizations. A International political economy through examination of major facets of the post-World War I era. Analyzes the twentieth century economic order and its crises in the 1930s, 1970s, and 1980s, North-South relations, and the cold war and its aftermath. Examines factors contributing to the economic problems of developing countries and possible solutions.