Rethinking World Music: A New Approach to 21M.030

The goal of this project is to rethink the course 21M.030 (Introduction to World Music), which has outgrown its current framework and resources and is in need of serious restructuring. For the past decade, the class has been taught as a single section or two independent sections per term taught by different instructors with little coordination between sections. Instructors Patricia Tang, George Ruckert and Evan Ziporyn will re-imagine the goals, content and structure of the course with the aim of creating a new team-taught format, giving greater cohesion to course content and allowing the course to accommodate the growing demand from students, all the while retaining small recitation sections for discussion and hands-on music-making that are so integral to the course's success.