Studying global music history provides insight into the cultural, social and political development of music worldwide, and awareness of current issues in the practice and preservation of intangible cultural heritage.
When studying this unit you will focus on new trends in post-Eurocentric music history. Through a series of case studies from antiquity to the present day, you will explore new approaches and methods for engaging with the diverse histories of the world's music.
You will learn about early encounters between musical cultures and processes of synthesis and syncretism in Central Asia, Japan, Korea, the Philippines, the Americas and other contexts through engagement with a diverse array of musical, archaeological, and documentary evidence and secondary literature.
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