MU 315 - Electronic Music: History, Cultures and Practice

Credits: 4
An exploration of electronic music, approaching the subject from two perspectives: a survey of its history and cultures around its practice and reception and creative composition exercises to help facilitate understanding that practice from the inside. The arc of the course traces electronic music from its nascency in Euro-American ideologies and practices into its disruption by people working with music technology in African-Diaspora, economically scarce and globally south spaces. The second half of the course begins with Jamaican Dub techniques of the 1970’s to Remix culture as part of the Hip Hop movement and the vital shift to Electronic and contemporary music.

Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): Junior standing
Liberal Arts Perspective(s): Aesthetic