Spring 2025
| 1/28 | Spring 2025 semester begins-first class Introduction. |
| 1/30 | Critical Listening: Taste in Music |
| 2/4 | Critical Listening: Levitin/Kamat/Discussion |
| 2/6 | Elements of Music: Copland, Part I, Part II. |
| 2/11 | Elements of Music: Part III, Part IV. |
| 2/13 | Music as Globalization: Martin/overview. Quiz 1. |
| 2/18 | No class. Classes follow Monday Schedule. |
| 2/20 | Globalization and Politics of Place: Rumba |
| 2/25 | Globalization and Politics of Place: Candomblé |
| 2/27 | Music and Indigeneity |
| 3/4 | Micro-Musics in the US. Intro. Workshop for Writing/Creating a Concert Review |
| 3/6 | No class. Classes follow Wednesday schedule. |
| 3/11 | Micro-Musics in the US. Student Presentations. |
| 3/13 | Racialized Sounds: Salsa. Quiz 2. |
| 3/18 | Racialized Sounds: Merengue/Bachata. |
| 3/20 | Racialized Sounds: Jazz (history/piano playing-styles) |
| 3/25 | Jazz in Photography and Oral History (a workshop about “the art of the Interview”) |
| 3/27 | Racialized Sounds: Latin Jazz/Brazilian jazz, Intercultural Music? |
| 4/1 | Racialized Sounds: Reggae. |
| 4/3 | Hip Hop: Global Politics/Intro. Quiz 3. Concert Review is due. |
| 4/8 | Hip-Hop Feminism. |
| 4/10 | Music at the US-Mexico Borders. |
| 4/15 | No class. Spring Recess. |
| 4/17 | No class. Spring Recess. |
| 4/22 | Music and Borders: US-Mexico Borders. Interview assignment is due. |
| 4/24 | Music and Borders: Pakistan-India. |
| 4/29 | Music and Borders: Students Presentations. |
| 5/1 | Music and Borders: review/discussion. |
| 5/6 | Music and Transnational Protest. Deadline-Playlist. |
| 5/8 | The Limits of Music Hegemony: Music as a Weapon. |
| 5/13 | SilkRoad/China and the Prospects of Intercultural Connection. |
| 5/15 | Closing-The Summer of Soul/Feedback |
| 5/16-5/22 | Spring 2025 semester ends-Examinations. |
