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Course Description
Popular music is omnipresent. We've all bought it, listened to it,
danced to it, developed fashions and identities through it. Now
we are going to study it. This course concentrates on primarily
reggae, dancehall, hip-hop and dance music (house to UK
underground garage). These genres provide the sonic prism
through which to examine: the societal conditions in which music
emerges; authenticity and appropriation (how popular music
thrives on borrowing customizing and reinterpreting other
people's cultural property); the representation/production and
consumption of music (i.e. the media and music industry), and
the political and social implications of popular music (gender,
race, globalization).
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