Musical Exoticism

Studies the conditions under which misperception and appropriation occur, under what conditions can mutually beneficial interactions take hold, and how can future musics may celebrate the potential of cultural difference without falling into exotifying tendencies. Topics include the upheavals of colonialism, the musical misrepresentation of other cultures, the innovation of some of the most popular and powerful music of the past 150 years: jazz, Cajun music, Kpop, Hip-hop and Bluegrass.