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How has the increase in the speed and spread of people, information, symbols, capital and commodities affected the kinds of music that are created and consumed both locally and globally? How does music contribute to discourses of authenticity, difference, and global homogeneity? How do we understand the meanings of music when local, culture-bound explanations are insufficient? How has the historical development of Western ideologies of music and art contributed to current forms of hegemonic control over music such as copyright law and the transnational music business? What have been the political, musical, ideological, and financial consequences of the development of "world music"? In this course we will addresses issues such as the above, with emphasis on an ethnomusicological approach to music in its transnational and global contexts.