NAIS 120 — Introduction to Native American Music
This course provides a survey of Native American music and dance addressing styles both traditional and modern, and ranging across the United States, Canada, and Mexico. Surveying a wide range of musical practice, this class explores sociological conceptualizations of tradition and modernity, anthropological culture and musicological history, and the complex interrelationship of Native American musical performance as it relates to sovereign, distinct, and modern Nations.