BA in Music in Global and Popular Music

The Global and Popular Music Track offers students an interdisciplinary grounding in the study of diverse musical expressions in contemporary and historical perspectives. Major provides theoretical and methodological training in the study of global and popular music and engages students with cutting-edge ethnographic research. Analyzing global and popular musics within a broader context of postcolonial, technological, and transnational development, the major engages the ever-changing balance between traditional and modern ideas of music in systems of learning, performance techniques, and ways of writing and recording music.