ETHNMUS C121
Tibetan Pop Music: Tibet, Exile, China, and World
Description: Lecture, four hours. Pop music is key part of contemporary Tibet, emerging in 1980s in Tibet and exile, and even earlier if mass-disseminated socialist songs of Tibet as compulsory, state-produced popular music is considered. Exploration of multifaceted world of pop music in and of Tibet and Tibet within China of Mao Zedong and socialism, and that of market socialists from Deng Xiaoping to Xi Jinping. Exploration of ways in which Tibetan pop music is voice for Tibetans in Tibet, numerically small minority in China, and in small exile population. Focus on Tibetan pop music exposes students to plethora of issues relevant to musics of small, minority, and stateless people, and of myriad political dimensions of pop music--turbulent, crude, subtle, social, and economic. Concurrently scheduled with course C221. P/NP or letter grading.
Units: 4.0
Units: 4.0
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Spring 2024 - tbh this class is a lot more work compared to other music upper divs but i really really enjoyed learning about tibet from a leading scholar in its music. the workload throughout the quarter is manageable cuz it's just a 1-2 paragraph reading response per week but the real challenge is the final since it requires you to consider the readings and further readings (!!!!) to formulate a huge argument about a niche topic. i've heard about people hating on this class, but i thoroughly enjoyed challenging my own preconceptions surrounding china, power, exile, tibet, race, politics etc.
Spring 2024 - tbh this class is a lot more work compared to other music upper divs but i really really enjoyed learning about tibet from a leading scholar in its music. the workload throughout the quarter is manageable cuz it's just a 1-2 paragraph reading response per week but the real challenge is the final since it requires you to consider the readings and further readings (!!!!) to formulate a huge argument about a niche topic. i've heard about people hating on this class, but i thoroughly enjoyed challenging my own preconceptions surrounding china, power, exile, tibet, race, politics etc.
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