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Why should we care about the study of popular music? How have scholars and practitioners understood, defined, and discussed it? What questions and concepts have become dominant in its academic study, and how do these concerns compare to those of its audiences and practitioners? In this course, we will explore the interdisciplinary field of popular music studies, exploring a vast array of questions about mediation, circulation, genre, institutions, audiences, authenticity, ethics and ownership, as well as race, class, gender, age, and the dynamics between the global and the local. In addition to acquainting ourselves with existing scholarship, we will do a lot of listening, asking how these themes and questions are rendered audible.