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MIT 3352F/G   Music, Media and Globalization

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This course examines how different popular musics produce the complex social, political and economic processes that constitute contemporary ‘globalization’. Topics include: ‘cultural imperialism’ versus ‘cultural globalization’, the worldwide diffusion of recording technology, the global music industry in action, musical ‘others’ past and present, and the emerging problematics of ‘world music’.

3 lecture hours, 0.5 course.



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