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Fall 2025 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
Fall 2025 Undergraduate Catalog

MUS 109 - Rock, Popular Music, and Society


A study of rock and related popular musical traditions in the United States. The music is investigated through consideration of its: 1) musical constituents (rhythm, form, pitch structure, instrumental texture, and vocal style), 2) historical development, beginning with its roots in earlier folk and popular styles through to the present, and 3) social meanings, uses, and ramifications.

3 credits

DEC: D

SBC: ARTS