MUS 3.05 American Music: Musical Experiments

What is experimental music?  This course answers that question.  To define experimentation, we first turn to science.  We then investigate how experimentalism in art music and pop shapes us – creators, participants, listeners – and the diverse, expansive identities of America, from the early 20th century to today.  We will feel, and measure, the transgressive and imaginative powers of music.  The goal: to learn what it means to try – through music – new ideas and ways of living.

Instructor

Aschheim

Degree Requirement Attributes

Dist:ART; WCult:W

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