The BA in Music with a concentration in Music and Culture is a broadly based liberal arts degree program offering the most elective flexibility of any ASU music major.

The program provides skills applicable to careers in music and many other fields (e.g., librarianship, arts festival management or production, criticism, audience education, recruitment, artist representation, publishing, creative writing). Students may develop mainstream competencies such as performing or writing about Western European music, conducting, and teaching about music. They may also pursue coursework in popular music, acoustics, advocacy of wellness through music, dance as musical embodiment and selected musical competencies of Asia, Latin America and other areas.

Students explore music as human history, cultural artifact and social behavior, and engage in interdisciplinary thinking and academic research and writing. Because of the high percentage of elective courses, students may tailor both the General Studies courses and the music electives to suit their career goals.