Training
•Bullet: Sixteen-unit Popular Music Studies minor examines the roots, histories, cultures, and changing meanings of popular music
•Bullet: Prior performance experience is not required; the emphasis is critical listening and contextual understanding
Cultural Study
•Bullet: Students expand beyond familiar repertoire by tracing relationships among genres, communities, technologies, and industries
Degree Flexibility
•Bullet: The minor complements majors in music, media, history, sociology, communication, and cultural studies
Location
•Bullet: Los Angeles offers an active laboratory of popular-music production and circulation
