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This course will explore how music reflects and produces culture. Our goal is to examine how musical styles emerge from ongoing interracial and intercultural exchanges, continually generating new forms and experiences. We will learn to critically examine how music operates within complex political and economic frameworks and think about how it works to reinforce or challenge existing structures of power. The goal of this course we aim to equip students with the analytical tools to approach any musical practice by listening and thinking critically, considering factors such as race, ethnicity, gender, and class.