History of Popular Music offers a socio-historical approach to the history and context of American popular music from the; upper level cross-cultural courses deal with Western traditions (such as Celtic Musics, Irish Folk Music, Music in America, Rhythm and Blues) and non-Western traditions.

Focuses on the ways black people have experienced twentieth-century events. Examines social, economic, and political catalysts for processes of protest music production across genres including gospel, blues, folk, soul, funk, rock, reggae, and rap. Explores ways in which people experience, identify, and propose solutions to poverty, segregation, oppressive working conditions, incarceration, sexual exploitation, violence, and war.

A survey of musical practices from around the world and a study of the roles the music making plays within a cultural context. Music, culture, and the connection between the two will be understood through lecture, recordings, video, and through fieldwork involving observation and interview.

Students with a concentration in MUSICOLOGY: History, Composition, and Criticism will have the ability to investigate music in a critical way and expand the range of analytical methods, theoretical perspectives, creative techniques, and research approaches developed in the music major core.

The music history and culture classes lay the foundations for understanding how music has been created, performed, and heard over time and across civilizations. The subjects range from broad overviews of western and non-western music to smaller, more specialized classes in particular genres, time periods, and forms of musical expression. Popular and classical, western and non-western music are all areas of inquiry.

In this course students will develop skills for analyzing a wide range of music styles and appreciating their social, economic, and political importance. We will explore selected case studies through readings, lectures, discussions, film screenings, listening sessions, workshops, concerts, and hands-on activities.

The core of the Certificate of Merit is private studio instruction, performance or composition which is offered for all instruments as well as voice, music theory and composition, music history, classical guitar, jazz, and conducting. Students will also gain a solid understanding of music theory and history, as well as the technological tools necessary for being a musician in the twenty-first century.

The minor in ethnomusicology offers students an opportunity to explore music in its cultural contexts. The foundation of the minor is a unique introductory course, Music in Everyday Life (MUSC 1001), which investigates many dimensions of the musical experience and music’s connections to society. Students take in-depth electives that focus on the music of a region, tradition, global popular trends, etc.

This is a course that offers students a chance to focus an entire semester on the music of specific cultures, regions, or issues. Topics may vary, but the goal of each class is to investigate human musical activity in context, with a strong emphasis on cultures outside European cultures.

Yale University offers a variety of Ethnomusicology courses as additional studies for those in studying the Music field.

The Seminar in Ethnomusicology and Sound Studies is convened by Professor Jason Stanyek of the University of Oxford. Featuring lectures by leading scholars who have adventurous takes on musical and sonic cultures, the series has a particular grounding in anthropology, sound studies, and ethnomusicology.

This course explores ethnomusicology through contemporary literature and the formative works in the field including material from anthropology, performance studies, ethnographic film, and folklore. Participants will conduct fieldtrips and fieldwork, including interviewing, participant observation, multi-media documentation, and ethnographic writing.