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Published by: Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Language: English
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This course begins with the premise that the 1960s mark a great dividing point in the history of 20th century Western musical culture, and explores the ways in which various social and artistic concerns of composers, performers, and listeners have evolved since that decade. It focuses on works by classical composers from around the world. T
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- music and theater arts
- composition
- contemporary music
- classical music
- improvisation
- serialism
- minimalism
- rock
- jazz
- tonality
- neo-tonal
- recording
- sampling
- chamber music
- pantonal
- atonal
- avant-garde
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This course focuses on popular music, i.e. music created for and transmitted by mass media. Various popular music genres from around the world will be studied through listening, reading and written assignments, with an emphasis on class discussion. In particular, we will consider issues of musical change, syncretism, Westernization, globali
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- music and theater arts
- world music
- pop music
- globalization
- recording
- afro-pop
- afropop
- reggae
- bhangra
- rave
- hip-hop
- enthnomusicology
- world beat
- senegal
- felakuti
- african music
- paul simon
- graceland
- rap
- rap music
- dance
- anthropology
- japanese pop
- egypt
- egyptian pop
- techno
- youth culture
- karaoke
- ska
- dancehall
- bob marley
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This class explores sound and what can be done with it. Sources are recorded from students' surroundings - sampled and electronically generated (both analog and digital). Assignments include composing with the sampled sounds, feedback, and noise, using digital signal processing (DSP), convolution, algorithms, and simple mixing. The class fo
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- music and theater arts
- computer music
- sound
- music
- audio
- listening
- electronic music
- new music
- electronica
- sound art
- noise
- noise music
- avant-garde
- contemporary music
- modern music
- composition
- recording
- music production
- recording studio
- audio software
- recording software
- sampling
- synthesis
- audio engineering
- mixing
- radiohead
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