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MSC 102 – Introduction to Modern Popular Music (3 credit hours)

Survey of the history of popular music, focusing on the United States. The course examines influential music genres and individual artists as well as situating their repertories within sociocultural, political, economic, and technological contexts. (CD, D) First Session Course: Cultural Diversity


MSC 108 – American Music (3 credit hours)

A study of the musical sources of American culture and the six streams of music in the United States: folk and ethnic musics, offsprings of the rural South (country music, blues, rock), jazz and its forerunners, popular sacred music, popular secular music, and art music. […]


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