MUS 160 - History of Popular Music

3 credit hours - Three hours weekly; one term.
Explores the various styles and genres that make up modern popular music. Focuses primarily on the pop musics of the western idiom, and analyzes these genres in terms of their historical context, stylistic content and musical impact. By emphasizing inter-relationships between sociological, cultural and musical trends, students will begin to analyze how these musics affect western popular culture in general.